Today Bill was exposed to ringworm, also known as wrestler's bane. What more can happen to the poor kiddo? :(

Cold today, high was around 10 degrees. Almost glad to be sick...got to stay snuggly and warm in bed most of the day until I had to go to work...

Dan had left the house early to do snow removal and came home to change his clothes about 9AM while I was asleep. He walked up to the bed to kiss my forehead and I woke up with this person looming over me and I screamed my head off! Too much like a nightmare I used to have for years and years where I was sleeping and woke up to find my mother standing over me with a sharp knife...

Tommorow Bill will get his academic letter to go along with his varsity athletic letter - I will have to work and will miss it. (cries)

We haven't heard anything since Christmas about how my dad is doing. I will have to try to track down sisters very soon so I can find out. :( I hope he is all right!!!!!!!!!

I am so glad I had that one very happy weekend right before all of this started...remembering it makes me feel better, makes me stronger, lets me cope with all of this bad stuff. It's amazing what a difference a bit of joy can make. :)

The kids went back to school today...which means I will only get to see them on three days a week. :( :(

Bill is still not feeling well, having trouble concentrating, even having trouble with his homework, which is amazing as he carries above a 4.0 in straight college prep classes while doing two sports. This thing is frustrating him and breaking my heart. :( Darned concussion!!)

And I am getting sicker now that I have finished my course of antibiotics. Lots of sinus drainage and coughing up stuff again as of Saturday, though  I am not spitting up any blood this time, thank God.

Snow again tonight, couldn't see the lanes on the roads driving home. Took a nasty fall i n the driveway coming into the house...scraped up my hands and knees... :(

I wish I could take the kids to Florida or Arizona for a few days. We would feel so much better i n the sunshine. :)

Listening to jazz tonight...very relaxing...

well, it certainly looks like we are getting our snowstorm... :) :)
when Dan and Bill get back home from wrestling practice, maybe I can beg one of them into going outside and playing with me. :) :)

Today it is snowing. :)
We can get anywhere up to a foot tonight. The kids are hoping for an extra day of vacation tomorrow if school gets cancelled.
Dan and I ran a bunch of errands in Ann Arbor this morning. I picked up a CD of Schubert's string quartets with a gift card I was given for Christmas, and am looking very forward to hearing it. :)
Dan just drove Bill down to wrestling practice. He wants to keep an eye on him to make sure he is OK, given how upset he was yesterday.

Steven is playing frantically on this last day of Christmas break.

I am going to listen to the Schubert, finish reading the botanical essays...rest...do laundry and dishes...rest...get ready for work tomorrow...woke up at 4AM this morning, so need to try harder to get back on a regular sleep and meal cycle...

Bad day. I woke up at 4AM, the time I get off work with those midnights...just threw the whole day off...
Bill had a really rough day wrestling...as would be expected two weeks after getting a concussion and wrestling against some of the best teams in the state...yet, he is such a perfectionist he is having trouble accepting that...
Dan kept our bargain...last year wrestling pretty much destroyed our marriage, so we made some agreements between us.  My demands were that he not get into people's faces and that we leave each tournament to find healthier food and eat lunch. For Blissfield we found a little bakery/tea house that had wonderful soup. Today we found a little bakery in Detroit Beach and bought Polish angel wings and doughnuts, and then a little pizzaria and got pizza. We drove along Lake Erie for awhile...went back to the tournament for awhile...but the gym was so hot and I was so tired we came home after a couple of hours. I went straight to bed, slept for about four hours, woke up and read my book of botany essays.
When Bill came home he was still all upset. Dan and I are now discussing whether to take him back to the doctor just to make sure he is OK... :(
Dan is watching football, Bill is sleeping, Steven is drawing, I will make some toast and then head back to bed very soon...

And tomorrow will be our first real snowstorm of the winter...6-12 inches. I am so glad I am not working like I usually am on Sundays. By the time i have to leave the house on Monday afternoon, the roads should all be fine.
Truly snow I can fully enjoy for once. :)

Glad to be done with midnights for awhile. I am very tired...

Ran errands today, got little room humidifiers for the bedrooms. In our old house we had a house humidifier, but our heating system here doesn't allow that...hopefully this will help us all feel a bit better, as we've all been a bit under the winter weather...

Will take Steven's friend (who spent the night) home soon, and take the boys to wrestling practice. Then more sleep...

Tomorrow the big tournament at Monroe Jefferson High School, in the shadow of the cooling towers of the nuclear plant...
I always feel a bit weird when I see all of the steam coming out of those towers...

We might go out to dinner tonight after the kids get done with their practices...way too tired to cook anything healthy tonight...so Big Boy salad bar here we come ;)

Quiet day alone at home so far...Steven is at a friend's house...Bill had wrestling practice, and Dan went with him...let me sleep, which I am grateful for.
One more midnight shift to work and I will be free for three days. :)
It's amazing how working midnights can reduce you to such biological concerns such as sleep and food. Sometimes our civilized veneer wears thin...
I am cooking up a huge batch of Macaroni and Cheese in the oven. Should make everyone very happy. :)


I finished the book I was reading, HMS Surprise, when I woke up. I am really enjoying this series of books by Patrick O'Brian. :)

I have to find a bit of time with Dan sometime in the next day or so, as I have to get my vacation and holiday requests in at work soon...its always easier said than done, trying to track him down... :(
Though he is trying a lot harder this year, after the really bad problems we had last year...we both just work too much and don't see each other enough...
We did meet for a late lunch yesterday, on his way home from work and on my way into work. We ate at the Chinese restaurant where we had our first date all those years ago (1983). It was nice seeing him. He said it was the first time he had seen me happy since I and my father got sick and Bill got his concussion...guess the last few weeks have been rather stressful at that...
This weekend is the big wrestling tournament in Monroe...Bill had worked so hard to try to medal...
...but the week of influenza and the concussion lost him two weeks of training. This particular tournament is sort of like the Monroe county championships...since it is sponsored by the Sherriff, the medls are very cool Sherriff's stars...
There will be two more years for Bill to wrestle there. :)