Another long night for this grandma! Tagen was asleep by 8:00 and Ellexia followed shortly afterwards. I slept from 9:00 to 1:00 although I was awake for brief periods about every hour. Finally at 1:00 I moved to the couch. A queen-sized bed is too small for three people.
At 1:15 Tagen comes out and tells me he is very cold. I took his temperature and it was 101.8. Gave him some Motrin and tucked him back in bed. Ellexia heard the commotion and woke up. I put her in the recliner in the living room. Tagen came out about 30 minutes later and wanted to lay on the couch so I went back to my bed. 30 minutes later both kids joined me in the big bed. By then Tagen was too hot so I got a cold wash cloth to put on his forehead. Both kids stayed up until about 3:00 until they finally settled down and went back to sleep. I went back to the couch and got two more hours of sleep.
Both kids woke up a little after 8:00. Tagen has a bad sore throat but no temperature this morning. I fixed them pancakes and scrambled eggs. Ellexia ate most of hers but Tagen only ate half of his.
During the night I decided to take an Emergency C packet to help me not get what ever it is that Tagen has. Big mistake! Immediately after I took it I didn’t feel very good. Started getting a bad headache about 15 minutes afterwards so I checked the label. The first two ingredients are sugar in two different forms. Yuck! I didn’t even think about that when I took it. I am still feeling the effects of it hours later. Those things work for me but not sure I am willing to pay the sugar price again. Lesson learned. One more thing to get rid of. It was a reminder to myself that sugar doesn’t do good things to my body.
Took the kids home this morning around 10:00. I wanted them to be in their mom’s hands if Tagen started running a temperature again. Sure hope he didn’t expose Kathy and I to something icky. Kathy has a trip coming up and I don’t want her to leave not feeling good.
I am going to Prairie Past Times this afternoon for their Art Day. It is fun to watch others be creative. I am going to take some knitting and a tub of shawls and blankets. I need to weave the ends in so they will be finished. I think I will offer the others there a shawl or blanket so I can get rid of them. I knit at this point to relax and use up yarn. No real purpose in making what I make. I have no desire to start distributing prayer shawls again and deal with the requests that came with that. I really got taken advantage of by a few people and that kinda took the fun out of that project for me. Shipping has gotten so expensive that I don’t want to go there either.
Found a friend that will take the two baby chicks. I decided it wasn’t worth raising just two. The other six eggs did not hatch. It was fun to incubate the eggs and watch the two hatch. I may try it again. I need to learn how to tell if the eggs are fertile or not. I can tell when I crack them open but that doesn’t work if I want to incubate them! I really don’t need more chickens right now as my coop was designed for 18 and that is what I have. More than that will encourage them to lay eggs other places than in their nesting boxes.
It may be warm enough tomorrow we can get the chicken coop cleaned out. I use the deep straw method during the winter which means I add fresh straw monthly and don’t remove the old, dirty straw. It helps add warmth to their coop. When it is warm out it is really stinky. In the summer I remove the old straw and lay fresh down monthly. The chickens seem to enjoy fresh linens and a clean coop. Makes it more fun to gather eggs when the coop doesn’t stink. The winter clean out takes a lot longer and is an especially icky job.
Another quiet week ahead although I may go to KC one day. I have a growing list of things I need from Costco and have some friends I like to visit monthly. Since Nicole is out of the country I won’t be able to visit her. Friday I have jury duty if the case proceeds to that. I’ll know Thursday night if I have to go.
Grateful for the blue skies and warmer temperatures today, grateful to have had the grandkids out for the night even though Tagen got sick, and grateful for my sugar lesson last night. I am committed to staying off sugar!