Intrepid Murmurings

Geesh, this NaBloPoMo is a little exhausting!  But good for folks like me who need a little external motivation!  

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What's going on here?  Elsie is sick, possibly with H1N1, though it could be something else as well.  Still no vaccines in sight for any of us, too!  We are pretty sure Lonnie had it (the Swine) about two weeks ago.  Emma, Delia and I have had cold symptoms, but nothing flu-ish.  Elsie had a fever for a few days, though it seems to have broken since last night.  She also has a horrible cough, and at times is generally miserable (mostly, of course, in the middle of the night). Last night was HELL with her awake and whimpering, dozing on me, or crying off and on for hours.  Delia woke more than usual too, so I was pretty much up and down all night, or trying to sleep with a fussy baby next to or on top of me. Just when teething was over and they were toying with maybe sleeping through the night on occasion, here we go cold and flu season.  Waaaaaaaaah! 

The ped's office wants us to come in tomorrow if Elsie isn't improving (especially the cough), since H1N1 tends to have lots of post-flu complications (like pneumonia in young kids).  Having spent 2 weeks in the hospital with pnemonia and a collapsed lung, I understand how bad that can get in a hurry!  But I am also not TOO worried, since she seems pretty fine during the day, and if it were bad I think she'd be feeling worse all the time.  Hopefully we are all on the mend!  And that everyone sleeps tonight!  I could use it! 

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Feeling overwhemed by stay-at-home mamahood, right now.  The neverendingness of it all can be really exhausting, mentally if not physically.  I finally conquered a mountain of laundry that was piling up on our living room couch, but know there are still more loads to do in the basement.   Keeping up with dishes, laundry, the chaos and destruction that these three can create in just a few hours, plus cooking, serving, and cleaning up three meals a day is a lot of work!  All the little things really do add up, its crazy.  And even though I do have time that I could be accomplishing other things in, I just don't have the energy or motivation a lot of the time.  

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Oh man, just realized there are some link issues in the right column here on the blog.  I think a section of my blogroll got deleted, and another section doubled.  Sheeesh!  Gotta wade through the code and figure that one out (or call in the Admin, who I think may be the guilty party here in the first place!  Serves me right for having him add the NaBloPaMo button instead of doing it myself, ha ha!).   I am percoloating a lot of ideas for changes around here but am not sure yet what I will go for.  Its funny, in the years since I started this blog things have really changed on the blog scene!  Ads, tons of blog networks, all sorts of buttons (for  blog networks, social networks,  special events, blogrolls and individual blogs, buttons for everything!). Some of it is really cool -- I thing the networking aspect of it can be great for finding new blogs to read and new readers to write for!  But it also is overwhelming, visually.  I like the simplicity of the basic old fashioned website.  So perhaps this blog will remain (mostly) a relic of 2004, design wise... 

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Okay, gotta go.  More tomorrow!  Hopefully a more interesting and topic-oriented post!  Maybe with pictures...