A tale of a frozen family

Do you just ever have periods of time that you are virtually just uninspired???  I’m not really sure what is up.  I don’t know if it’s the constant weather fluctuation, or the flu season or what.  The last couple of days, I want to sleep all day and night. 

We were suppose to go to an astronomy symposium last night, which would have been a great opportunity for the Man to break out his new bad boy megga kick butt telescope.  Additionally, they have a junior astronomer club for the kids, that the spawn would have gone NUTS over.  It’s normally for kids 6 and up, but at 4, she knows more about our solar system than I do… including the order in which they fall from the sun (which she will tell you is NOT a planet, but a star mom!).  So…. at any rate, I was excited for her.  I couldn’t wait to tell her when we picked her up from preschool yesterday afternoon.  

We get there, I look at her.. she looks flushed.  I say nothing, because it’s gymnastics time and I refuse to be one of *THOSE* mothers.  So I wait till it’s time to go.  I put on her coat and instinctively do that feel their forehead with the back of your wrist move.   She’s burning up :(   We get her home… temp is 101.  Needless to say, we didn’t go anywhere.  She complained about her legs hurting when she walked and that the inside of her head hurt :(  So I gave the poor kiddo some Tylenol and she went to bed at 7pm.  Didn’t wake until 8am.  Again today, between 100-101 all day.  The upside is that she didn’t complain about any pain today.   As a matter of fact, she’s not exhibiting any symptoms at all, other than fevers.   I try very hard not to get paranoid about anything, but who am I joking.  Having my baby in a hospital for 5 days last year about did me in, and I’ll move heaven and earth to try and keep her from EVER having to go through that again… which of course started as a simple cough.  So… I sometimes think I *look* for symptoms that probably aren’t even there.   Long story short… she’s got a constant fever and nothing else. 

 I feel puny, but not outwardly sick.  Still healing up from surgery and just feeling overall worn down.  I suspect I’m coming down with a cold or something though.  I guess that explains the “uninspired”.   

I also acknowledge that I appear to have a serious case of diarrhea of the mouth and that it’s quite likely that NO ONE on this planet gives a rats a$$ about anything that I am babbling about at this very moment. :)  So I think I’ll just go shove myself in a pint of Hagen daaz.

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