This 'cold' that we all picked up maybe two weeks ago is still going strong. We all started out with a fever and S was throwing up, but then it quickly became a chest/head/disgusting thing for David and I, and less so for both children, except that recently they are both faucets again, and now are coughing so hard they gag. Especially S, who coughed enough to get sick in bed last night on his pillow. And I say 'his pillow' in the loosest possible sense since he was, in fact, sleeping in the spare room. And by sleeping I mean not sleeping at all but actually wandering around the house/complaining/kicking me when I tried to lie down with him. So no one really slept except C. And then today was supposed to be a playgroup day except that it wasn't, because the schools were all closed and that meant the resource centre was closed, all due to icy rain.
This wasn't going to stop us - we all headed out for a long walk in search of food since all the meat I had left in the house was uninspiring and also required me to do ridiculously complex things to it, like defrost it. I'm working on very little sleep here and defrosting something is not going to happen. Without help I have to do my grocery shopping in stages. I can push the tandem stroller with bags of groceries underneath it, and that can pretty much cover our produce needs. Then a second trip is needed to get meat, etc. If large bulk items are also required, like a bag of flour for example, that is a third trip.
I'm parenting alone right now; David has headed off to work and won't be home until very late this evening. The way things are looking around here I may still be doing laundry when he gets back. And I have to figure out what on earth to cook for supper that both children and I can eat. I'm on a diet, so that cuts out anything remotely nice tasting.
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