Seven Quick Takes: October 30, or has it really been a week?

-1-

Life has gone onto fast forward mode somehow.  It seems like I am always doing something.  Or someone in my household is doing something.  And it just keeps raining which makes it all seem endless.

-2-

I am fighting a cold, probably the same virus/cold that Mac has been fighting.  We kept him home on Wednesday, as his throat was killing him, he was feeling sick to his stomach, and he was just plain exhausted.  I think it was a good decision, as he seems much better.  No flu in our household yet.  Sadly, I say "yet", because the number of people I know who have been or are currently dealing with flu in their households seems to increase exponentially by the day.  I am praying that we don't get it, but with three children in three different schools, plus a husband who works with college students, well, our odds are not favorable to staying well.  But God is a GREAT God, and He can do, and does do, great things!

-3-

Good:  I've been getting more sub jobs lately.  Bad:  I've been getting more sub jobs lately.  

Good because we really do need the money.  Bad because 1) if I get a job, it usually means that teacher is ill or that teacher has someone in their family who is ill, and 2) if that teacher is ill, I'm walking into their classroom, where she (usually it's a she) has left all her germs for me, on the table, chair, etc.  Germ-X is my friend right now.  And 3) wow, how do I get everything else done that has to be done that day, if I'm working instead.  I haven't got the knack of juggling everything yet.  Or maybe nobody gets that knack.  Something has to give when you take time away from things for one big thing.  I'm sure things will get easier.  I have found that I am doing more on the days that I don't get called - just in case.  My dream is to have a total day off, because I've already finished everything that must be done in the house, and I don't get called.  I know it won't happen - that's why it's a DREAM and not reality!!!  (but such a nice dream...)

-4-

My husband is on FB now.  I set up his account for him, as for some reason, he is computer challenged.  How can that be, when he is the one with an engineering degree (actually, three engineering degrees.  Bachelor, master, Ph.D.  Lots of school in that guy.  Very smart.  Very nice.  Of course, I'm biased.  As I should be.).  But that's the way it is.  He actually got on his account last night.  And I taught him about chat.  So we were chatting, while we were 6 feet from each other.  This could be useful.  We could talk about the teenagers behind their backs.  Wait, we already talk about the teenagers in front of them - though they don't hear us, with their Ipods surgically connected to their ears.

-5-

Seriously, Nina is always listening to her Ipod.  Of course, she has the excuse that she needs to listen to her choir music.  Though I can always tell what she is listening to - since she hums or sings along with the music all. the. time.  Seriously.  All.  The.  Time.  Which might be why she is in choir.  That and the fact that she has a pretty decent voice.  

As long as she is getting her work done, she can listen to it, as far as I am concerned.  And at this point, she's doing pretty well at getting the work done.

-6-

Nina is going with half of the 8th grade class to the high school today.  

I will now hyperventilate.  My daughter, my baby girl, my little princess, is going to HIGH SCHOOL next year.  I know I've had a high schooler for over a year now, but it's not the same.  I'm used to him.  Mostly.  But here we are again, and she's going to be a 9th grader, and next thing you know, she's heading off to college.

You know how the first three years of a child's life drag slowly by and yet speed through so quickly you wonder how it is possible that they are three already?  You just had that baby, and now that baby is a big kid, talking and all kinds of fun stuff?

High school appears to be doing the same thing - except not so much drag since there aren't as many sleepless nights.  (I won't lie.  There are a few sleepless nights.  Though I'm learning to just let them suffer when they don't finish a big project over time and have to stay up super late finishing.  And of course, my son went to a dance and didn't get home until after midnight and we were up until 1 a.m. talking, but at least he still talks some with me, right?)  But it is speeding by, faster and faster, to the hoped for conclusion where I wave goodbye and leave him at some college somewhere.  

and didn't I just have that baby?

-7-

I'm really not sure where this week went.  Homecoming last Saturday, Sunday was busy, Monday I subbed, Tuesday?  I'm not sure.  Wednesday?  I had a sick kid at home.  Thursday?  It was going to rain.  and then it started raining.  It's still raining.  It's Friday, and there is a football game tonight.  I'm working concessions for cross country (visitors side - wonder how many people will come if it's still raining?).  It's the last home game of the year, unless we get one of the playoff games (not likely).  

And tomorrow is the meet for Mac, and I need to bake a cake, since our church fall picnic is on Sunday.  

Don't forget the time change.  Fall back on Sunday at 2 a.m. (or before you go to bed Saturday night) unless you're in a state that doesn't switch times.  We do.  I'm looking forward to the extra hour of sleep!  Ahhhhhh.

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Comments

[Marie]

That's so funny, I sub too and it's a mixed blessing every time.

You sure you guys don't have the flu? I say so not to make you miserable, but those symptoms could be flu and then you could be done with it and relax a little on the Germ-X front (but just a little. . . . )

Hope everyone feels better soon. Found you through CD, of course, enjoyed the takes.

[Tracy]

from what I've heard about the flu, it lasts longer, and has fever. He never had a fever at all, didn't have body aches, etc. As for exhausted - Mac has been doing too much for too long. We are looking forward to him being done with cross country season at least, in just two weeks!

As for me - well, I've been fighting this cold for at least a week. I don't have a sore throat, no nausea, no fever. So I think even if he did have a touch of the flu, I don't have it. Not that I wouldn't love to be done with it, if it is that easy to get over!

[Elizabeth Mahlou]

Praying that the flu will pass you by unnoticed!