Mommathon

Liam has not been this sick in a VERY long time. He has that glassy look in his eyes that kids get when they are super sick. He has a temp of 103, he is hot and then he is cold, sweating and then shivering. His lymph nodes are swollen and his inner ears are red. He is coughing and is SO congested. He has spent the better part of the past two days sleeping on the couch. We had to change his pajamas last night because they were soaked with sweat. The dr. gave him some antibiotics and I am giving him some OTC meds as well. Not to mention that he has his regular regimen of asthma meds he has to take every day and then the extra asthma meds he has to take when he has congestion. He is being SUCH a trooper. The antibiotic he is taking is so nasty I didn't even try to pretend that it was good. He has already gagged on it once. It's gross. I remember that stuff from when I was a kid...ugh! The OTC medicine isn't much better even though they say it tastes like bubble gum.

Sean isn't much better either. He went to the dr today and got his own set of meds to help him get over his junk. He sounds terrible when he coughs and he can't talk.

Please, dear Lord, keep Colm and I away from all of this. PLEASE!

Colm decided to "help" me make brownies yesterday by spilling some of the chocolate chips all over the floor. This a pic of Colm and our dog scavenging them off the floor. Now, I know Colm shouldn't be eating off the floor and the dog shouldn't be eating chocolate, but I had to take this picture. It was like they were competing, it was a race, to see who could eat the most chocolate.

This is such a good movie. Sean and I watched it tonight after we put the kids to bed. Sean and I have watched quite a few movies lately and this was, by far, the best. HIGHLY recommended.

There are many different types of learning. Garner recognized seven different types of intelligences: spacial, linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, spacial, mathematical-logical and kinesthetic. You probably know what type(s) you and your children are. I started thinking about this yesterday when I was working with Colm doing his It's A Match game. This was only the second time he had worked with it so I was kind of sitting with him walking him through how to do it when I realized that he was doing it perfectly right, but not at all the way I would do it. He had tackled the problem in an entirely different way that I would have. We want back and forth for a while until I realized what was happening. I was trying to help him when I realized I wasn't helping him at all, but was keeping him from doing it his own way. By the way, if you have a two-three year old, you need to get one of these toys. They are great for teaching problem solving skills and Colm loves it because it is self-checking. He pulls down on the tray when he is done and if the colors match up then he knows he has done it right.

I know of two people who have had their credit card numbers stolen from the same local restaurant in the past year. If I know two people who this has happened to, then you know there are more AND when they were trying to figure out what happened one of the first things the bank asked them was if they had eaten at this restaurant. That tells you right there that there has been a pattern. One particular person had used their debit card to pay and their entire checking account was cleared out to the tune of about $3,000. Yikes! I am not going to mention the name of the restaurant here so I can't be sued for slander or libel or whichever one it is, but if you e-mail me I will tell you which one it is.

I dropped the boys off at The Little Gym this week for a few hours and I managed to get a TON done. Sean has been crazy busy at work over the past few weeks which means I have had A LOT of quality time with the children, but very little time to get anything done. So, in the three hours they were gone, I went to two different Hallmark stores looking for something I didn't end up finding at either one, I made two trips to our storage unit to get stuff out, I went to the scrapbooking store, Sonic, the drycleaners and the post office. I would have never been able to get all of that done with them. The post office alone would have sent us all over the edge. There was a long line and there is just way too much stuff for a curious three-year old to get into at the post office. Same goes for the scrapbooking store and Hallmark, too, now that I think about it.

Another memoir. This one was recommended to me by my friend Christie. Very good book. Sad. Tragic. I also have to remind myself while I am reading a memoir that this is someone's life. These things really happened. I was warned to get the tissues ready and I used them, too.