Not Everyone's Mama

Winter in Iowa is perfect for making my kids sick.  Alyce started coughing last night and was crying until I gave her some Delsym and Tylenol.   I know the bottle says 4 and up, but before the FDA changed the stuff on kids’ medicines my DR had me give it to Kat at 2 or 3.  So, I gave Alyce half the 4 year old dosage. (She’s 3.) She finally was able to go to sleep.

Katiana got up this morning and told me her ear hurt and she’s coughing.  Tylenol for her and some ear numbing drops from her last ear infection.  And Nano is now coughing and sneezing.

Joy of all joys I’ve got a house full of sickies.  Jordan is still at his dad’s.  Maybe if he stays there long enough he’ll avoid the germs that would contaminate him too.  I think his dad said 5 days.  He left Friday afternoon, I think that gives him til Tuesday.  I kinda wish he was here to empty the dishwasher for me miss the little poo.

Now I just watch them for a bit and see if they stay the same, get better, or get worse.  If they get worse, off to the DR.  I’d take them in, but you know, I get tired of my DR telling me to watch them for a few days.  So, I do that first.  He’s usually right, but it still is annoying don’t tell him I said that.

I need to get up and clean my kitchen good.  I’ve done surface stuff over the busy holiday weekend, but haven’t done the deep down stuff.  One of those I know I need to do it but I so don’t feel like doing it things.  Blahhh.

I’m really lucky that we have mostly soft flooring (carpet/linoleum) and not something hard like tile flooring right now.  Christiano is really trying to walk, more than the 2 steps that he has taken since 9 1/2 weeks.  But he hits that diaper butt and his knees so hard when he falls.  Not to mention his little knees are getting rough because he crawls out of his pants.  Another reason to clean the kitchen really good today.

And I need to get some duct tape out and tape my vacuum cleaner back together.  I’ve had the thing for 3 years and about 3 weeks ago the switch stopped working.  Pato had a switch in the garage so he jimmy rigged it back together.  (He calls it a Mexican Invention when he does that stuff.  He’s Mexican, he can do that. I’m not so sure I’d get away with it.)  Then he was vacuuming and the handle snapped in half.  I don’t know how he and Jordan have been using it with only half a handle, but the living room needs vacuumed and neither are here, so it looks like I’ll have to figure it out.  I really want to win the Oreck Halo that Feisty, Frugal, and Fabulous is giving away.  Have you see the Oreck Halo?  Freaking sweet!  It’s got this UV-C light that  kills bacteria, viruses, dust mite eggs, flea eggs, lice and mold. Not wanting any of that to live in my carpet, but if they did, a vacuum that killed them would be nice.  Ok, I know we don’t have fleas and lice (my kids have not had lice yet, and no pets that crawl around, mine are in cages) in the carpet, hoping no on the mold, you’d know if you had mold in your carpet, right?  Lord I hope so.  And doesn’t everyone have bacteria, viruses, and dust mites floating around?  Die sucka die!  The question is can I wait until January 15 to see if I win before buying a new vacuum when I probably won’t win? There’s already 1180 entries.   I probably shouldn’t wait, but that won’t stop me from trying to win the Oreck.  It’s too cool not to try.

On that note, I really should go start cleaning while the kids are being good.  I’m trying to motivate myself, not working.  Still need to do it.

Have a great day!

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