Sorry I haven't posted lately but this has been a very trying week. My older DS has been home for an entire week now with bronchitus. He coughs half the night & keeps me up & I have been like a zombie all day. The teachers have sent a ton of work for him to do & it is a constant fight to get him to do any of it. I know he doesn't feel good but he has to get most of it done or he won't pass the tests that they said he will be taking as soon as he returns. I am hoping that will be on Monday. I can't take much more of him at home. I will fill you in later with the crazy things he did. He is constantly in trouble. Anyone know how to unsuperglue things? Sounds funny now but boy was I mad!! There is a chunk of model airplane glued to the middle of my living room floor (hardwood) with a bunch of chunks of floor missing where he tried to pry them up with a tool for carving halloween pumpkins. This he does while I am on the computer searching for volcano information for his report for him. DH about went nuts when he saw what he was doing!! I can't blame him. Not much common sense for a 11-1/2 year old. So I haven't done much this week but go through a few paper piles & do some laundry. I did clean up the family room enough so that we could have a fire in the fireplace. This was the first fire we have had in about 3 years (all because of my clutter). Youngest DS was so happy. It made quite a picture...he was curled up in the nearby chair reading the Bible by the fire. He has to read one of the gospels completely by himself to pass a badge for Royal Rangers. He is 8-1/2 & this was not something that was easy to get him to do. He has been procrastinating doing it since October & it is the last thing left to do for his current badge & then he starts the next one. I told him if he didn't get it done by the new year that he wasn't going back to the group but he has made a real effort in the reading so I extended the time a little. He has the last 3 chapters of Luke to read & then he is done. His brother would have fibbed & said he was done reading it while all the time he would have had Harry Potter or Goosebumps hidden inside the Bible. Nothing like fibbing about Bible reading!!! LOL Well I better go to bed...it is almost 4:00 am & I am still up listening to him cough. I feel like I am coming down with something too...all congested & starting to cough. The doctor took me off of my claritin & told me to just take something over the counter. I didn't realize how much it was helping me until I wasn't taking it. My eyes are so burny & itching I feel like I have poison ivy in them & I have prescription eyedrops for allergies that I have been using. She said that with my high blood pressure (even though it is under control with the medication) I was taking too many other medications that elevate blood pressure so she wanted to drop something that I could do without. I have a painkiller for my back & 2 meds for the hypersomnia that apparantly raise it also that I can't stop taking so I guess the claritin has to go. You know I am feeling itchy all over...not just my eyes. My stomach & back are driving me nuts too. I don't know if it is normal dry skin from it being winter or I really am "getting" something. Tomorrow I guess we won't be in church again since DS is still coughing & I'm feeling this way. I feel bad that younger DS has to stay home but it can't be helped. We live 1/2 hour from our church so there isn't anyone else nearby that he could go with. Last week we went to Toy Story on ice in Philadelphia so we missed church & we got soaked in the parking lot looking for the car. On the way home DS started coughing & he hasn't stopped since. The doctor put him on a strong cough medicine the keeps him up late at night & then he sleeps the day away. Please pray that this ends by Monday so things can get back to normal around here (or as normal as they ever are). DH worked 3 doubles this week & the whole weekend so we have been pretty much on our own but at least I didn't have to cook for him. I made a big pot of chicken soup with dumplings that we have been eating all week. Thanks for letting me vent!!!
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