Sickness Smickness

I really don't think smickness is a word but this is my blog and I really don't care.  It rhymed with sickness so I used it.

I haven't blogged in a few days due to work and me being sick.  Thursday, I found out that I did indeed have Bronchitis and something asthmatic something-another.  My work has been so chaotic that when I get home I am exhausted but dealing with a 3 year old there is no time for rest.   The doctor warned me to be careful or I will get pneumonia.  So far so good, even with lacking sleep, I am doing ok.

Honestly, I don't see how single Mom's do it.  They have my up most respect.  Do they have babysitters they can count on in a time like that?  Unfortunately, I had no one this past weekend.  So trying to get rest while my 3 year old is running around is hard.  Friday, I felt so bad and his daycare had closed due to weather conditions so him and I were stuck home together.

Here is how it worked.  I lie down on the floor on a blanket in the living room, he sits beside me for a while playing with the iPad, I fall asleep for a few minutes.  I wake up and he is walking around with my sweater that I had on earlier.  I go back to sleep.  I wake up, he is under the coffee table watching the iPad and I go back to sleep.  I wake up and he is hanging over his chair with his cape on.  I go back to sleep.  I wake up and he is sitting on me, bouncing, saying "Wee Horsey" (I was lying on my side).  I go back to sleep. I get wakened up to, "Mommy, can I have something to drink?"  "Yes, you know where they are."  He runs off and comes back and I get bonked in a head with a juice bottle.  I pop the lid off and off he goes.  I go back to sleep.  Bad part to this, this was all going on in a 2 hour time frame.  Now, imagine how the rest of my day went.  This is just some of the things in did in a 2 hour period.  Also I have to note, I can hear him the whole time I sleep. How I do that?  I don't know.  I have always been able to do it.

When I got up, I couldn't believe how much of a mess he made in the living room while I tried sleeping.  I felt so horrible and had no energy.  So I just sucked it up and realized, there are worse things in this world going on besides your 3 year old having toys scattered all over the house while you tried to sleep.  Besides, no one was going to want to come visit me anyway unless they wanted my germs all over them.