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When Mommy Gets SICK… keeping up the home, school and life with our children when we are sick can be a challenge. However, keeping our expectations in check and realizing that we can get on top of it all after we are a bit better will allow us to rest and get better faster.
There is never a good time for moms to get sick, but getting sick the first week back to homeschool after Christmas vacation, after a week with a sick baby and all other children having been sick? No, not good. When Mommy gets sick things can quickly turn to chaos in less than three seconds… or it seems that way…
However, I had somehow managed to get a new chore/routine system put together just in time. I had lesson plans made out and we were pretty much easing into the new semester…. but I DID NOT get our meals planned and well, that is where nearly 3 gallons of chili saved us… I started handing out chores to get that chili made… I tried to trust my hubby with the seasoning of the chili…
We didn’t end up resorting to our Mommy Sick Day Binder, or starving. Children all had clean clothes and managed to do a week’s worth of school even without my help. It is probably the beauty of having older children.
Now, I am not going to kid you… the house was quite chaotic… I was a little upset when I saw the state our bathroom was in… Yes, cleaning it was on that new chore chart, but you know what? The four who know how to clean the bathroom decided that someone else should do it… I think???
I know, that has probably never happened in your home, right? I mean, when you get sick, the house just runs itself?Yes? Well, please inform me how you have managed to get that accomplished!!!
Sometimes moms can get pretty sick. This was one of those times. I could barely walk on my own. I had a headache, but not just a headache, a migraine, but not just a migraine, a migraine caused by a sinus infection, that had my tummy out of sorts, and had gotten into my ears and had me very sick…
My husband actually had to come home to help. He stayed home except to check cattle for three days, and then on day four, took me to the doctor. He hasn’t stayed home with me sick that much in our nearly 17 years of marriage. Not even after a baby. Not after any of my three c-sections…
So, what did happen in our home? Well, honestly, I was out of it and I am not really sure. Everyone worked to stay caught up on the basics… except the poor bathroom. lol Something tells me everyone figured someone else would get tired of the yucky messes that take over a bathroom in nothing flat… I mean, we have three potty trained boys and daddy here… Sorry, in our home boys mess up a bathroom worse then my girls.
Baby didn’t starve, but refused every single bottle of milk that my family lovingly thawed out for him. Every. Single. One… When a breastfeeding mom gets sick and is unable to keep any thing down for two days, her milk production kind of drops to nothing… he was mad, but not mad enough to take a bottle…
Here I am trying to hold him and calm him down after one of the bottle attempts…
When mommy gets sick, the family will survive, but things will be a little different. We have to hand it to our family for staying afloat while we were under the weather. We have to praise our family for taking care of us.
I am doing better now, still not 100%. Still wear down pretty easy and spend my afternoons resting with baby in my arms. I have been down for two weeks with this stuff.
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