Sadly our guests left Tuesday and Charlie went back to work on Wednesday, which means our vacation was practically over. The only thing that truly prevented it from being finished was the fact that the kids don't go back to school until tomorrow.
On Wednesday I dropped Andy off at a friend's house and the girls and I went to Lifetime so I could work out. Afterwards we came home and miraculously everybody kept themselves busy most of the afternoon without any fighting. I had a ton of laundry to do because I have this crazy thing about doing laundry when we have company over (even though I have no problems doing it when we are the company) so I folded while the kids watched t.v. or played their electronics or whatever. Even Charlie was impressed when he got home that everybody was in a pretty good mood.
Thursday I took the kids to Lifetime again but this time the kids club was packed, so packed that we had to wait until some kids left before they would let us in because they had met their limit of 145 kids. Holy cow! Needless to say when I finally picked them up they were a bit cranky because it was a little too full to have any fun. Well, the girls were pretty good about it, but Andy was not happy at all. We had lunch at the cafe to make up for it and then I went home to do even more laundry but again everybody was in a pretty good mood. I was starting to think that we could even handle another week away from school. The only problem I find is that when the kids are home I don't do a lot around the house, so another week really would be a bad thing.
But then it was Friday. The kids' last day of winter break. On Friday I really needed to go to the gym because I had to do four miles according to my training schedule. I didn't want to go in the morning and risk the chaos that we had on Thursday so I put it off until after lunchtime. Right before we left I started to get a sore throat, but I chalked it up to allergies because it was about 20-30 degrees warmer on Friday than earlier in the week and any time the weather changes that much weird allergy things happen in our family.
Except it didn't go away. That night I took an allergy pill hoping it would help. The next morning it felt like I had a golf ball in the back of my throat. I went to the clinic inside our Walgreens since I still don't have a primary care doctor since we moved and the nurse practitioner confirmed my self-diagnosis. Strep. Damn kids. Two weeks ago Andy got it, a week ago Amanda got it, and this week I got it. I really hope Charlie and Sarah can fight it off.
So yesterday when I was supposed to be putting all the folded laundry away (at least I got that far) and taking down the Christmas decorations, I did pretty much nothing except lie on the couch. Thankfully my husband is a rock star and picked up the slack for me and took care of the kids and me. Today I was slightly better and got up long enough to help him take down the Christmas tree and put away all the ornaments. The kids helped too if you call sitting on the couch and playing their electronics while telling us which box to put the ornaments in helping.
I'm hoping to feel much better tomorrow and since the kids are going back to school maybe I can be a slacker for one more day and just rest. After that, I just may have to parent them a little bit.
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