Baker and the Slippers Slope

I was reading over at Leigh’s place, The Sweetest Gift, and I'm totally sending my sympathies her way. Managing a household with kids and being ill at the same time is never a picnic.  I’m there right now myself, but I have the luxury of having older kids around towards the end of the day to help out with the younger ones when mom is just done.  Finished.  Someone’s not making it till Daddy gets home kind of days.  So I’m sending Leigh my hugs and prayers and trying to get through my day right along with her.  So my post kind of piggybacks off of Leigh’s with a slightly different perspective.  

For Leigh!

That said, I have my own slippers slope to deal with this day.  I am crazed out on steroids, but finally think I’m getting ahead of things in the sickness department.  I was up until almost 2 this morning and well, I was awaken by our youngest at 3:30 who did not settle immediately and then, well, I was awake again. 

Our youngest is no longer a baby, but Hoss slept through most of my late night hours!

I woke up again when sweet Hoss’ alarm went blaring.  I kid you not the man does not have a normal alarm.  He has one of those that literally screams at you to get up.  I wake up to sweet little chimes, he wakes up to that screaming, noisy, (you get the picture) things that’s trying to wake the dead two counties over. 

Evil alarm clock!

I did my best and actually got about 45 more minutes this morning before again I awoke. Growl, surprisingly, I did not.  No, I was energizer bunny even before I had the morning dose of meds.  Yay, me!

I love this little bunny rabbit, could totally relate to him today!

Being the energizer bunny has it’s advantage, except when you just cannot think from one task to another to get sidetracked by squirrels all day long.  

Thankfully did not see one of these today!

Not the real squirrels, no those were smart enough to avoid me while I was driving, but those distractions that take my attention away from the tasks I was trying desperately to do. 

That was me, today!

Let’s just say that I have not made much sense today and I probably should not even be allowed to blog, but alas, I am, because it’s really a funny kind of day.  

I needed to run the littlest to school and for the life of me I could not get my fingers to cooperate.  I could not zip up my own coat.  I’d manage the little man’s coat fine, but after several tries I was about to give up when it finally took.  I had several of these little episodes throughout the day with things being complicated that normally are not.  I tried to comment on Leigh’s blog and was for certain my brain had taken a vacation as blogger ate the thing three times for some unknown reason.  I’m going with operator error here.  What do you all think?

Yup, everyone had a ton of patience with me today, thankfully!

So I went to pick the Little Man up from school and got a hot chocolate on the way home.  A large hot chocolate and the med did not mix well.  

Yummy!

I thought I would be bouncing, no.  The caffeine took a different approach.  It made me cranky.  Now, I am a cranky, wired, distracted mess that literally could only concentrate on folding clothes and matching socks.  

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Not quite that bad, but sure felt like a mountain to overcome at the time!

Can I just tell you it took me two hours to fold and put away two baskets because I was so distracted by every little thing and alas, my hands would not, could not roll a pair of socks for nothing.  So, thinking I’m making progress I go to run another errand and got me another, you guessed it, hot chocolate.  

Yummy times two!

Why?  I have no idea.  I guzzle those things, folks.  It was not like it was really helping with the cough, which was what I kept telling myself.  Though in hindsight, it was probably the only thing I think keeping me upright.  So, I’m home and feeling like I can make it through the next hour or so until the man arrives.  What will happen then?  He has not been spanking me whilst I’m sick, so I have a feeling he will take over and let this very tired lady go to bed.  Just hope I can actually get some rest because I’m still feeling pretty high and cranky from all the caffeine.  

That's probably true today.

Oh, and by the way the slippers slope idea came from the fact that when I went to pick up my little man I did not realize I left the house in my slippers.

Yes, I was that mom.  

The one who looked ragged and worn out wearing slippers to pick her kid up from school.  Yeah, just be thankful, folks, I was not still in my pajamas.   I know people that have shown up with mismatched shoes, so at least I was matching!   Yeah, I’m thinking tomorrow has to be better, but at least today was entertaining!

Yup!  That's a good reminder!

--Baker
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