From bad to worse

The day did not get off to a good start and continued it’s downward spiral until bedtime.

This morning we walked to school and Keren screamed the entire time that we were walking.  She just did not want to be in her stroller and although it was a beautiful morning, she totally ruined the walk for me and for the kids.

When we got home she wasn’t in the best of moods and I really didn’t know what to do with her.  In the end I wound up nursing her and putting her in for a nap at 8:30 in the morning!!  She slept for an hour.  I had another lousy night of sleep and I thought she would sleep for longer and I tried to sleep but she woke me up after I had just fallen asleep.   When I looked at my watch and saw that it was 9:30 I thought that I had slept through my alarm and the kids were still home.  I was so disoriented.

Anyway, she was in no better of a mood after she woke up so I plopped her in the car and we went to the fruit store, the playground and the change place to exchange money.  That put her in a much better mood.  She loved sitting in the wagon at the fruit store and she loved swinging in the swing at the park.

At 11, on the way home, they had the countrywide siren signaling that we all had to go into our safe rooms and lay down on the floor with our hands over our heads.  I was on the road so I just listened to the radio which repeated directions over and over again.  It was kind of an eerie siren.  It was weird.  Ben had said that they were practicing for it and they had to make a train to their safe room.  Talia also said they were practicing for it at her school.  My neighbor told me that her daughter came home today and told her that Talia had a bunch of the kids convinced that there was a bomb headed straight for their school and it was going to hit their school.  She said they were freaking out.  She is so not my child!

I put her in for another nap at 11 and had to ask my neighbor to come over so that I could run and do carpool today b/c she was still asleep and I didn’t want to risk having a monster on my hands if I woke her up.  So my neighbor was nice enough to come and sit here.  Unfortunately, when I got to Ben’s school his teacher said he just started to complain that his head hurt and he felt very warm to me.  So I dropped his friends off at the baking chug and took him home with me and gave him some tylenol for his fever, something to eat and a cold compress for his head.  He took a short nap on the couch and then about 5 minutes after Talia came home (soaking wet from some water pipe that was open from some workers that were working near her school so they decided to run through), threw up on the floor on his way to the bathroom.  EWWWWWW.  How many times must I clean up vomit this year?!?!?

The rest of the day was spent making toast and tea, running carpool (for Ben’s friends since it was my turn even though he was sick), and taking care of a pretty cranky Keren.  Luckily, Talia was in a pretty good mood today and she was helpful and happy to just hang out and not do much before and after her last art chug of the year.

I am hoping that tonight is uneventful.  I plan to be in bed by 8:30 and asleep by 9.  I have to go clean up now in order to make that happen.  I really hope that the nausea that I am feeling right now is just psychosomatic! 

Here is some video of the kids playing today.  It was the highlight of our day: