Uh-Oh
I think we may have an oinker. Please, dear ether, don’t let us have an oinker!
We had a MOMS Club meeting this morning and Erik was just a mess. I had to take him outside because he was doing an Incredible Hulk impersonation, only turning red instead of green. He was mad because we moved the tables and chairs to the side of the room. He was so mad no one could hear the president call the meeting to order.
Embarrassing!
Once I got him outside he had a total crying meltdown about the chairs. I started out being pretty angry, but quickly simmered down and got a bit worried.
We finally went back in and I thought things would be fine. Our guest speaker was a woman from FunFit, a family fitness place that does workouts for moms and kids. Normally this type of thing would have been right up the boy’s alley, but he spent the first ten minutes laying on the floor in a ball, claiming he was tired.
How stupid am I that I didn’t take him home right then?
He eventually warmed up and did the activity. I was naughty and did not do the activity, though the moms were supposed to participate to get our cardio for the day. Ha! I can’t jump on a good day, much less on a day I have an avocado baby in my belly.
I think I was sort of in denial about the whole thing since today was preschool and I really needed a few hours to myself. We didn’t have school on Monday, so I was feeling pretty antsy.
When I picked Erik up, he was pretty warm. The teacher said it was just because they’d been running, but when I got him home he had a fever of 100.7. Not bad, but I still felt a little guilty for sending him to school and infecting everyone with his crud.
I thought we might have a peaceful afternoon if he just needed to hunker down and rest.
But of course not!
He may have had a fever, but he was full of energy. Ugh! I couldn’t take him outside since he was sick, but he was driving me crazy in the house.
I was kind of mean to Mike, and turned over the care of the child to him as soon as he got home. I disappeared down into the basement to use the desktop since Shutterfly doesn’t agree with my new laptop, and didn’t emerge until bedtime. Bad mommy!
Here’s hoping the fever is just a fluke and we aren’t all going to be laid low with H1N1.
I’m pretty sure I had something else to say tonight. I’m not sure if it was clever, cute or even important. It seems like it was SOMETHING, though. I swear I’m losing my mind.
Oh well. At least I had a very satisfying few days in the reading department. When I first met Mike 10 years or so ago, he convinced me to read the Deverry series by Katherine Kerr. The first couple of books didn’t really grab me, but by book 4 I was totally hooked. Normally I wouldn’t give a series such a long chance. I barely give books 50 pages. If I don’t like it, I’m done. Life’s too short to read books I don’t enjoy. Based on Mike’s recommendation and the fact that I was in Sweden with very little English reading material, I plowed through the books and totally fell in love. The final book in the series, book 15, came out this week. It was fabulous. Kerr is really amazing. She took so many threads and held them in her very deft writerly hands for almost two decades. I was very satisfied with the ending and am feeling a happy glow with the way things all turned out. Now I just need to re-read the entire series in one go so I can really appreciate Kerr’s genius. It can be pretty confusing because one of the main premises of the book is that characters are reborn over and over until they get their lives in order. Over the course of the books we see around 10 lifetimes and how the souls of the characters interact with each other and change the course of history in their country. Good, good stuff, but hard to keep track of. Luckily I live with a Deverry scholar so I was able to ask him questions instead of being totally confused.