Life Is What Happens...

...when you're busy making other plans.

I think John Lennon wrote that. But there is a proverb that says the same thing but in a more lyrical way.

Anyway - I spent yesterday in bed. I had the tummy nasties. I didn't throw up but just felt horrible all day long. It came in waves. Steve came home around 10 am to watch kiddos since I couldn't. He's a good man. I felt guilty that he came home because all I did was lay in bed. I wondered if I was making things out to be worse than they really were, but when I awoke this morning bright-eyed, busy-tailed, and feeling MUCH better, I knew that my illness yesterday was genuine.

So now Caleb is showing symptoms again. He and Audrey got sick on Sunday, so they both stayed home from school yesterday. At least until noon, then Caleb went back. He's not throwing up again, but he said that he feels like he's going to. Maybe my sick day is still too fresh in my mind, but that's how I felt yesterday and I didn't want to do anything. Plus I don't want to risk getting other kids sick. Not like they won't be exposed anyway, but I don't want Caleb to be the "exposer." Maybe he already was, though, since he went to school for a couple of hours yesterday. Oh well. He's been told that if he's sick he needs to stay in his room and lay down. So far he's complying. I figure this will tell. If he's really sick, he won't care. If he's not, he'll whine and complain. We'll see.

I have a long list of things I need to do today...laundry, vacuuming, straightening up...it never ends. I'm hoping to be able to sit down and get some more done on The Pencil Bully Affair article. I'm totally re-writing it. I think my personality got lost in the first writing and it's starting to come out more with this re-write. I'm going to e-mail it to the 5 ladies who were at the writers' group on Thursday since they critiqued it then. Hopefully I'll be able to send it off soon!

Going to go now and begin my list...I think laundry is first. Oh joy.