M is ill again
Today has been such a long day! I did sleep in slightly so that was good. But possibly it was down to the late time I went to bed. Anyway, woke up to A looking at death’s door and drinking a lemsip but dressed ready for work and trying not to throw up. He eventually decided he was going in to work about 20 mins late and said he might come home early, but in the end he’s had a super fast recovery and is feeling much better this evening.
In the meantime M has gone downhill rapidly. I don’t know if he’s caught what A had or if he’s having some horrible reaction to his homeopathic remedies (if he’s not better tomorrow I’ll be phoning up I think). He woke up tired and didn’t really want to eat breakfast, and we had a very slow start. He played Sonic Adventure DX for a while and I helped him Google for hints of some gloves he wanted to find in the game.
About 10 ish we finally got out of the house to the library and M chose some new books. Then we went to Tescos, spent a fortune and M complained all the way around. I guess he was feeling pretty rough. We came home about 12 and I made lunch but M ate very little apart from some freshly cooked salted popcorn. He watched a DVD and then went to bed with a headache and feeling cold.
L was tired all afternoon too because he fell asleep on the way to the library and only napped for a little while in the sling. He is getting too big to cradle in the ring sling now, I have to be careful he doesn’t fold over in half in it. Got some nice comments from some older ladies in the library about my sling. One lady stopped to admire him closely and said what a good idea the sling was and it was just like the shawls she and the other mums she knew used to use in Lancashire.
I tried to do all the things I’d been going to do if we were having a normal day and so didn’t do anything properly. I was going to vacuum upstairs but only got M’s bedroom done. I changed his bedclothes but then had to keep dodging rain showers to hang washing out. Not that I should be complaining about it raining! I did make chicken soup, but M wasn’t up to eating it. I also grated courgettes and onions (and my thumb) ready to make some courgette relish. Might manage to fit in the actual boiling up of it tomorrow. I started sorting clutter in the back bedroom but probably made more mess than there was to start with.
M didn’t want any tea but came downstairs to watch kids TV on the sofa. When we’d eaten he asked to play on the computer then suddenly changed his mind and then began throwing up. He’s been drilled to go to the loo to throw up for ages now, but we don’t have a downstairs loo in this house so he was confused about where to run to as he couldn’t get upstairs in time. So he threw up a bit in his “sick towel” and then dashed towards the living room door for the stairs and splattered a large area of carpet in that direction, then A called him in to the kitchen to be sick in the sink and he threw up across the dining room carpet on the way. Thankfully A cleaned it all up cos it makes me heave to clean up sick. I kept L out of crawling through it.
Then it was early to bed for both boys and they are both sleeping just now. M is still very very hot but hopefully he’ll kill off whatever it is if it’s a bug overnight.
