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| Aubrey the Artist |
In good news, Lily is feeling much better today. She spent most of the day lying down, although she did walk to the store with Andy to get tomato soup for dinner.
In less good news, Andy woke up with a stomach bug at 2am and was out of action most of the day (although he did still help with afternoon kid stuff and dinner, when I started to fade at 3pm due to being up with Lily almost hourly until 2am)
In good news, I went to a cute play group today with the twins (should I be out when people at home are ill? Am I a super spreader? I don't know. Twins seemed fine) and a childminder told me how amazing our Nanny is. I think she's amazing, but it's always good to hear from others too.
In less good news, Ezra said he didn't feel well at dinner and proceeded to be sick.
In good news, 50% of my kids can reliably be sick in buckets or toilets and not on the floor!
In less good news, Ezra is off school for two days now. Lily can go back on Thursday. Ezra can go back on Friday.
In good news, before Ezra got ill he passed his swimming test and he's now a "green level" swimmer.
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I really have no idea how this week is going to go. If the twins get this then our life will really go south for a bit. If the twins have it when I have it then that will be very south. If I get it after the twins then I probably can't do my half marathon on Sunday.
I'm supposed to be doing some shake out and taper runs this week. That's obviously not happening (the runs. I am hopeful I will get to run the half)
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This morning I put up an out of office and haven't checked back at any work stuff. I didn't cancel any meetings. I just wasn't there. Remote work feels so odd sometimes. I *really* want to be in work and I'm so excited about my new job. I am terrible at doing things halfway and I knew I wouldn't be able to focus on kids if I allowed myself to check my work computer. I know work will be there later, but I would love to have more things sorted and arranged before I take a bunch of unpaid leave to cover family illnesses (I'm aware there is potential for me to be off through Friday now, with the quantity of kids and the quantity of sick)
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It's 8pm. Time to do some more reading and get some sleep, who knows what chaos tonight will bring (hopefully just sleep)
On the plus side, I'm enjoying a 7 day copy of One Golden Summer by Carly Fortune
That's right, your half is this weekend! And everyone is sick and you're convinced that you're going to get sick - the taper crazies are running right on schedule!
ReplyDeleteI love being able to just step away from my desk and take care of home stuff. If someone tries to contact me and I don't answer, it could be because I'm in a meeting and doing worky things, or it could be because I'm doing laundry and snuggling with the dog. Whatever the truth is, the work is getting done and I'm getting back to them in a timely fashion.
Haha yeah definitely taper crazies over here!
DeleteI generally love the WFH balance of being able to get things done... but also sometimes I bring the balance too far away from work and need to swing it back around. I feel more settled with it when I've been in a job longer and am confident that I'm doing the right things!
Fingers crossed you got sleep!!!
ReplyDeleteOh dear. The way an illness can rip through a family... ugh. I hope you and the twins somehow avoid it!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Half the twins avoided it so far!
DeleteFingers crossed it stops with the big kids and you get to run your race. Kids who can puke in a toilet or bucket is a real parenting milestone.
ReplyDeleteI’m sorry the cruds are making their way through your house. I hope you get to run your half this weekend! What an accomplishment!
ReplyDeleteI saw that book at the library today and wondered about it…maybe I’ll check it out now that I know it’s good!
Thank you! The book was cute - not one I'll remember forever but good light reading for now.
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