In my favorite poem by Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay, he reminds us that like the seasons of nature, life is one season melting into another, and quickly fading away. This is my attempt to document each season in my life and my family.

Uncle!

Filed under: General — Rachel at 12:23 am on Saturday, January 16, 2010

I give, already. I give!

This virus thing all started on Monday. It’s Friday night, and we’re still not well. After my last blog post, we had to strip another bed, and I awoke from a couple hours of sleep early this morning to hearing Chris exclaim, “You have poop on your ear, Abby!” It was an extreme case of diaper blowout. By the time I woke up, everyone seemed to be feeling better.

Tonight, Elijah looked sick again, and, when I asked, he said that his tummy hurt very bad. About an hour later, his tummy exploded, and we started all over again with the cleaning the bathroom, showering the kid, and hunting for clean clothes. Abby still has scary diapers. The poor baby has had them for nearly a week now.

I’m so tired.

I am doing laundry tonight. I also re-scrubbed the floor in the hallway. I really, really want to rip out the carpet and put down hard floors, but that’s gonna cost a lot of money. I need to deep clean the bathroom. At four in the morning, I was just cleaning, not really cleaning.

I’m so tired.

My sinuses are doing something weird today. I think they’re getting better. Maybe almost healed. I didn’t keep a headache all day today. I am getting better.

Did I mention that I am tired?

Since the beginning of the year, I have lost eight pounds. I’m thrilled with the weight loss. I am at my lowest adult weight, and I didn’t really have to do anything to lose the eight pounds. Well, nothing but have surgery and get sick. I should have made losing weight a new year’s resolution. That would have been kind of awesome. Two weeks in, “Check!” Anyway, I am happy about it, but I feel like I dropped eight pounds in two weeks due to surgery and sickness. I am tired. I have no energy. I look terrible. I just want to feel good again.

There is so much to do, but I am so very tired.

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Comment by Rachel

January 17, 2010 @ 8:35 pm

Comments via Facebook:

Shirley Cook: Sooooooo sorry! After having 6 kids of my own, I remember having days like that. :-o NOT fun!!!! This too will pass. Love them, poor dears, but they will know their Mommy cares because of times like this.

Angie Ooten: Velvet now has it and had to call in at work last night.

Dianna Major: You need to make a soapy “bleach” solution and wash everything down…doorknobs, countertops, sinks, toilets, toys, remotes, light switch covers…viruses can live on things, and if you don’t kill the germs, everybody could just keep coming in contact with them. It’s obviously something very contagious. Rachel, you need to take vitamins…I think you need an iron supplement…low iron will make you feel TIRED! I love you all, and hope everyone gets well soon. “You have poop on your ear, Abby!”—Bahahahaha!!!!

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