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Saturday
Saturday IL6 and Aaron were supposed to go to Cub Scout Polar camp, but he had forgotten his snowpants at school, and we didn’t have a spare. Not only was it snowing, but it was in the single digits temperature. So he stayed home. 😭 Aaron and I played Dungeons and Dragons, then I dyed D15’s hair blue.
Sunday
Sunday….well…apparently I remember nothing about Sunday. Maybe something happened? I slept poorly due to nausea and M12 sicker than me.
Monday
Sunday night, both M12 and I were nauseated – and M12 was repeatedly vomiting. In the morning, he felt fine, but I was groggy and had awful body aches. I slept all day. In the afternoon, Aaron was supposed to take D15 to her permit test, but he had misplaced her (and M12’s) birth certificate. D15 was so disappointed. 😭Then M12 became short of breath, so I dragged myself to the thermometer and took his temperature. It was 104.5. I slept the rest of the evening/night till 1am.
Tuesday
Tuesday was a disaster at first. I had stayed home from work because I was sick, so I was there to be awakened when D15 started throwing up and got diarrhea. Then she let me know we had a leak in the basement. It was a failed pipe.
Aaron turned off the water, but then I had to take D15 to the toilet at Perkins and the gas station (2 times), and Aaron took her to the toilet at our grocery store. She threw up most of the day, and ran a 103.4 fever. M12 was also home because of his fever on Monday, and had another low-grade fever on Tuesday.
Good news: the pipe was fixed by about 11am. Plus Aaron got a copy of the older kids’ birth certificates. I set up an appointment for D15 to take the permit test on Wednesday at a 48 minute drive away. It’s the closest we could get. We figured she couldn’t be at school, but would probably be ok for taking the test.
IL5 worked on coding a new game on my computer with my help. He’s getting really good at it, considering he can’t read. He learns so fast. The teacher did say he learns visually. He threw up rather dramatically at the end of the day.
Wednesday
Wednesday, all three kids were home sick, and dad was pretty darned sick, too. I went to the gym, but started feeling lightheaded, so I came home.
I was trying to take it easy and get the basic tasks done for the day and get a lot of reading in. But IL6 wanted to program his game on the computer, and we spent 2 hours doing that.
D15, who wasn’t actually sick (she just had to stay out of school because she’d vomited within 24 hours), took the permit test in a city 48 minutes away (because that was the closest next-day appointment) and passed. Aaron took her out driving in the parking lot, but wouldn’t let her drive faster than 5 mph, which I think is excessively slow, but I guess I didn’t see if she was doing poorly with her breaking and steering.
Thursday
Thursday, I had a lot of unexpected housework to do, and felt very overwhelmed. But Aaron did the dishes when I said I was overwhelmed, so that was nice.
When IL6 got home, he wanted to play the computer game he had coded. It was 3-person, so at first M12 joined us, then Aaron joined us. After that, IL6 coded a 1-person game. All these games are pretty much identical in function, but not in appearance, so I really need to help him branch out. Not sure how to do that, though, because he is very strong-willed. On the other hand, he actually knows how to code that game with minimal assistance from me.
In the evening, I read while IL6 was at Cub Scouts, and then again in IL6’s room for a quarter hour before the older kids decided to come in and either have an anxiety attack (D15), or make lots of noise (M12 with IL6)..
Friday
Friday, IL6 had two appointments in the morning. Then, after dropping him off at school, I only managed to finish a little housework before he arrived home again. He programmed a computer game for a while, then Aaron and I went out for a Valentine’s Day date. I was a little concerned it would be crowded, but we went somewhere that didn’t seem like it would be a popular Valentine’s Day destination, and scored – we were seated right away.
Week’s Photos
Reading to myself
- The Economist: Scam Inc
- The Ravenswood Witch, by Jenni Keer
- March Book 1, by John Lewis, Andrew Ayden, and Nate Powel
- The Week: Musk’s Rampage
- The Life of Elizabeth I, by Allison Weir
- New Scientist: The Dark Side of Your Microbiome
- 12 World Religions, by Jason Boyett
Reading to IL5
- Stitch Head: The Pirate’s Eye, by Guy Bass
- The Frandidate, by Jim Benton
D14 reading
- Crazy Wanda, by Terry Goodkind
- Neverseen, by Shannon Messenger
Media Completed
John Lewis tells a couple of kids about his youth and organizing sit-ins in Nashville. This graphic novel is drawn well, and holds the reader’s interests.
Fran wants to run for president of her class, but has difficulty appealing as a candidate. So she creates a skin which changes into (and says) whatever each voter wants. Funny and cute.
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