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11/16/2005 Archived Entry: "this is not what better feels like"

Man, I feel horrid today. Here I thought I'd be on the upswing today and instead I'm way worse. Coughing, hacking and just generally feeling like crap. The baby is good, thankfully, so it's just me. Chris was able to stay until lunchtime which was helpful and then come home a bit early as well. At one point today I was just so dead tired I was honestly just going to fall asleep so I took a nap while Daisy was napping and before Chris had to leave. He was gone when I awoke, Tabitha was watching tv and Daisy was still asleep. I got up but didn't feel any better. After an hour I still felt like I was going to just keel over. I decided a walk in the sun was in order and got the kiddies ready for us to go out. We headed out with Daisy in the stroller and Tabitha scooting, of course. We went to a local park which Tabitha thought was wonderful. I sat on the grass with Daisy, drinking my soda. Chris joined us soon after and a couple girls also showed up so Tabitha had someone to play with. The topic of homeschooling came up and I could hear Tabitha chattering on about it. At one point I guess one of the girls was quizzing Tabitha on multiplication. When I asked Tabs about it later she said she knew them all up until the girls starting going crazy by asking 42x40 and the like, but they were just kidding as she said they asked them too quick for her to actually answer, not that she could have, of course. The whole thing was rather interesting.

Since being home I've done nothing but rest, basically. Chris took care of dinner, Tabitha amused herself, the baby was passed around. I did a math lesson with Tabs after dinner then Chris did spelling with her. I think that's going to be his job from now on. That way her hand doesn't get quite so tired during lessons and we can go back to her writing stories. Plus, I just don't enjoy the spelling, to be honest. I like the program and I'm very happy we chose it, but I don't actually like doing it. So, Chris gets to take over. He's still going to do science experiments with her as well, things just haven't been normal around here with all the sickness so they haven't started any yet.