Week 19 – May 7 – 13, 2012
Monday, May 7th: Last week Sunday when I was working on the last details of my blog post Charlie asked to hold Nola Mae. They were quiet and I looked over at them and found both of them sleeping.
Now onto our exciting Monday morning…we picked up red worms for a composting bin from Central WI Environmental Station. The most exciting part was that they weren’t prepared for us to arrive on Monday morning so we were able to help pick out our worms from their composting bin.
Tuesday, May 8th: Nola Mae is ready for the chicken chores.
My book club meeting was tonight. We read (attempted to read) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Our host had the great idea to dress up as if we were going to a ball. (I don’t have a breastfeeding friendly ball gown)
Wednesday, May 9th: Nola Mae made her first trip into the play house with the brothers.
My flowers and veggie plants that we purchased from our favorite greenhouse.
Thursday, May 10th: Some exciting after school activities.
Friday, May 11th: In the early morning hours I woke up freezing. I thought it was cold in our house and asked Jack to cuddle with me to warm me up. He told me I was burning hot, what a great husband! I also had a head ache and aches throughout my body, these were clues to me that Jack wasn’t being sweet he was just telling it like it is. Jack offered to get the boys ready for school and on the bus. I declined because I didn’t feel too badly and I promised to drive them to school this morning. I was able to get an extra hour of sleep by driving them. It took all the energy I had to get them to school. I was hoping to hit some rummage sales (our city-wide rummage sale) this morning after dropping them off at school, didn’t happen! I dropped them off and went straight home and right to the couch in the living room.
I felt like I would die on the couch it was so bad. I was thankful that Henry is independent enough to make food for himself. He made a bagel, ate some fruit from the counter and filled the rest of his belly with the candy that he could reach, like my last four caramels I had hidden in the pantry. Jack called me around 9:00 to see how I was doing and offered to come home. At that point I was feeling bad but not too badly. I was up once and warmed up the chicken noodle soup that my mom sent home with Jack last Sunday. Henry and I ate that before I got really sick.
I called Jack back around 10:30 to tell him I was worse and that he should cancel our plans for the night and told him that I could still handle things with Henry until he got home. Henry was staying close to me or playing nicely in the toy room. After that I got worse and couldn’t think straight to call anyone, just thought about it and wished that my mom or mother-in-law or step-mom lived close. I could hear everything Henry was doing/getting into, the only dangerous thing was the hatchet in the mudroom. I was able to stop him from chopping firewood without getting off the couch, because I really couldn’t get up.
I asked Henry to bring me the camera because I wanted a picture of Nola Mae. It was one of my tricks to get him to come see me and distract him from getting into whatever I thought he was doing at the time. He snapped this horrible picture of me and this one of Nola Mae.
I was thankful and hated the fact that I have such an independent three-year old. He brought me water, the Tylenol bottle, diapers and got into many things that wouldn’t happen if I was able to follow him around. I was thankful I had a 5 week old baby that needed to nurse and sleep the day away.
When Jack came home he found a horrible mess everywhere. I wish I had photos of all Henry’s messes. They would show what I prevent every day from happening. The first and only question Jack asked when he walked in the door, “Who was working on an art project in the kitchen?” I think after that he realized that Henry was the one to blame for the rest of the messes.
Saturday, May 12th: I was still sick today. I was feeling well enough to walk around for short periods of time and was done with the chills but still had the sweats.
Sunday, May 13th: I was feeling well by this morning. I put Nola Mae on my back and we planted onions in the garden. She slept for about two hours when I woke her up to nurse.
We went for a walk in the woods to get out of the sun. Robbie made these leaf belts.
Jack made this shelf/frame that hangs on the wall. The pictures are sitting on the shelf and can be changed easily.
Click here to see photos from our afternoon.
life with three boys and a splash of purple! 