Sick Day

After vacationing with our family on and off for the past three weeks, the same virus with fever, aches and headaches has gotten all of the children and is starting to make it's way through the adult population. I started feeling yucky yesterday but blamed it on lack of sleep. When I heard that my father-in-law had a fever, I took my temperature and realized that I wasn't just tired but sick too.

The girls and I were scheduled to leave for my mom's this morning. I knew if I could take lots of Motrin and manage to make the three hour drive that I would be better off. Both my mom and my mother in law asked me if I was still coming/going. While a three hour drive with a fever and two small children wouldn't be fun, neither would hours home alone with the same fever and the same two small children.

The drive was not fun but we made it and I have had the closest thing to a sick day that I've had in five years. As all mothers know, there is no such thing as a sick day when you are the mom in charge. Today though, while my mom played with the girls, I slept, read Maria Shriver's new book- it was short but I dont' care- I haven't finished a book in one sitting in a long... time- and slept some more. I actually rested enough to feel better.

It appears that for a mom to have a sick day, she needs to have her mom!