Sick Days and Immature Winners

Social Butterfly came home from school on Monday and slept from 2:30 to 8:30, woke up to complain about how much her head hurt, and then went to bed. She stayed home on Tuesday. I took her temperature every 10 minutes just to make sure this raging headache (she’s not a headache person—she’s an upset stomach person) wasn’t the onset of H1N1.

Tuesday night:

Mr. Fix-it: What did you do today.

SB: Watched Law & Order SVU.

MFI: All day.

SB (Clicking TiVo remote to the USA lineup which shows an entire 24 hours of SVU): All day.

I wrote this on Wednesday. On Friday the fever started. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a mild flu. One thing I never had to worry about as a SAHM was tag-team sick days. I’m just not comfortable leaving her home alone with a fever given all the scary H1N1 stories. I went in to school after my husband’s morning meeting. How DO single parents do it?

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The winners of the Klutz Encyclopedia of Immaturity are . . .

# 4

Um, sadly, I am very mature. The problem is, I live with a 13 yo boy, 11 yo boy, 8 yo boy, 4 yo boy, a baby boy with seriously loud gas from both ends, and a 32 yo boy, er, I mean husband. I NEED this book, if I am ever going to be able to retaliate I am going to need HELP!!!

Posted by: MJ | October 28, 2009 at 08:06 AM

 

#10

I "dance/silly walk" through the living room on a regular basis, just to make my daughter laugh. Or possibly just to make myself laugh.

Posted by: Kelly | October 28, 2009 at 12:54 PM

 

#14

I'm 55 and I still love to play jacks and spin a hula-hoop. Favorites forever!

Posted by: Annie | October 28, 2009 at 06:29 PM

Comments

[Jen on the Edge]

I hope Social Butterfly is on the mend soon.

[LifeAsIKnowIt]

Hope she is feeling better soon. My flu last month started with an awful awful headache and then turned into a fever...blech.
And, I don't know how single parents do it, either.
Hope everyone stays healthy over there!

[jenrantsraves]

I often wonder how single parents do it. Hope SB gets better quickly.

[busy bee suz]

I serisously feel sympathy for single parents...I always felt there needed to be a 1:1 child to parent ratio. Fingers crossed for SB.

[Susan]

Get well soon SB! Hopefully nobody else in the house will get it.

[Smalltown Mom]

You always worry about a sick child, no matter the age. Hope she's OK soon!

[Stacie]

I hope SB gets better soon!

[phd in yogurtry]

Hope SB is feeling better!

I do know the tag team dance. Quite well. My husband has a lot of flexibility, thankfully. I have flexibility in advance but not on the day of.

And we have no sick leave or sick pay of any kind, so I am super motivated to do everything in my power to stop the cooties in their tracks. Dixie cups. Lots of onions & garlic stir fries. No sharing straws or drinking after one another. Always the drill sargeant on flu patrol.

And yes, absolutely have empathy for the single parents. Every day of my parenting career, in fact.

[kcinnova]

Every time a kid gets sick (and mine are now all old enough to stay home for periods of time alone, esp. when healthy!) I am grateful to be a SAHM. I'm also pretty sure that single parents are superheroes. My stints of geographically-induced single parenting is hard enough; I can hardly fathom how difficult it is for those who have no end in sight.

I do hope SB feels better soon.

And congratulations to the winners! I might have to try a silly walk...

[Manic Mommy]

One of the biggest reliefs in becoming a SAHM was not having to tag team days off due to sick children. I'd much rather focus on getting them better than what I'm missing at work.

Hoping for a quick, mild case for SB.

[Jason]

I think EVERYONE is sick right now. I hope your family doesn't have to serve too much time.

[Kelly]

I am happy I won, sad that SB is ill. I hope she recovers quickly and that no one else gets sick!!

[JCK]

Hope SB is all well for her birthday!