MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

Cough*Blow*Achoo

My first blog of the New Year and I'm sick. Just a bad cold really-- going through tissues fast and furious, the cough that scrapes your esophogas like an ice pick, a constant tickle in the throat and watery eyes. So with the kids off to school, I'm sitting around in my robe and drinking tea, nodding off and just resting. It's funny how I can feel guilty, like I really should be doing something, even though if it was my kid being sick, I'd be waiting on them with tea and toast and make them take at least one nap.

And so the kids are back to school. We had a wild time of staying up way late and sleeping in beyond all reason. Mostly fun, with too much rich food and partying. We finished up having Christmas with MIL, BIL and SIL and her family on New Year's Day. It was a nice time, since MIL is really into decorating and doing stuff up fancy, and spoiling the kids with too many gifts. And she hadn't suspected our combined gift, which was a portrait of all 11 of us, kids and grandkids. She'd been wanting one for ages, and no one blew the surprise! The portrait was taken by Proex, and they didn't do a very good job, with dark shadows on some people and hard to find one good portrait that we liked at all. So my wonderful DH took all the pictures and used his digital talents to make up a new portrait by cutting and pasting the best of everyone into one image. It was complicated but it worked. I should have asked him to whittle a few pounds away from my image while he was at it!

Yesterday was hurry-up-and-get-homework-done day here, all the stuff we forgot to do or chose to forget over break. Honestly, I think the kids spent about 6 hours doing homework, and not that it was all that much work-- just they goofed and distracted themselves so much. I think it will take some adjustment to get back to that school mentality.

We did start off the new year nice, this first morning of school. Kids were actually in bed by 9:30 last night, and even the boys were out of bed this morning by 7:15, and had enough time to eat a good breakfast. We have had such crappy bedtime and morning routines here this fall. I hope we can continue to keep up with this. Made for a much nicer morning!

Back to my tissues and tea now....

Posted by sapphire at January 3, 2005 11:06 AM