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Teacher by day, Mommy by night
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A Real Sick Day
About a month ago, I took a day off to be with Emerson and a friend and her daughter. It was a lovely day. We went to the Folsom Zoo, hung out at a park, and had oodles of snack foods. The lovely day was made even lovelier because the next day I had class, so taking off a Friday added a day to my too-short weekend. A perfect day.
Today was not that kind of day. I dragged myself out of a bed a bit late, but managed to make coffee before Justin had to make his way to work at O'dark-thirty. The morning was puttering off to a regular Wednesday start...until I was starting my make-up routine and heard a cough. A yucky wet cough from Em's room. Rut-ro. Sure enough, I went in and Em had a 101.4 fever. Too high for day care. Luckily, today is Wednesday, so there's a little more wiggle room in the morning. I was able to call in my sub and send a lesson plan (though not stellar) to my school. Em and I spent the morning watching cartoons, which was nice but it got old fast. Then, I hit upon a new issue as the mom of a sick three year old. They get bored. And a sick, bored three-year old with a yucky cough is a bad deal. She kept wanting to run around and play, but then she'd double over with her cough. Not fun. So we played dollie, painted, read stories, and even played around with mommy's scrap booking materials. Eventually, I relented and we watch Barbie Fairytopia, which is really bad, but Em sat memorized. Needless to say, Em was less than pleased when Barbie completed her journey and finally got her pretty, pink wings, but she mostly willingly complied with taking a nap. She's still sleeping, a sure sign that she's sick. Justin should be home soon, and I'll head to class in a couple hours. Tomorrow, it's back-to-work time. I'm more than a little scared about what happened with my 1st and 2nd period freshmen, but at least there's only two days of this week left. And tomorrow Justin's on Emy duty. Real rough job, btw. :) 2 comments from 2 users
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posted by
creatress
on Nov 18, 2009 at 03:33 PM
I made some homemade corn starch finger paint for my art class the other day and it was a huge hit. If you have water, cornstarch and food coloring, you can make it too! 1Cup cornstarch & 1 cup water in a saucepan. w/o heat, stir into a paste. Add 4 cups boiling water and turn on the heat to simmer, stirring the whole time (about 4 min.) Pour into 3 containers. Add your food coloring (yellow, red and blue only is needed! Kids LOVE mixing colors and seeing new ones come out.) Let it cool and play away! Plus, if they eat a little it's 100% safe. I hope you don't get sick now, but glad you got to take a day off from teaching. posted by
stankie3
on Nov 19, 2009 at 02:38 PM
Nice Blog hmoeckli, We are feeling the season's joy in my house too. One has a leaky nose and the other actually laid on the couch. Nothing says a "sick child" more than a horizontal 4 year old at noon.
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