beloved and i do not celebrate valentine's day. the manufactured nature of the "holiday" is irritating at best. our chinese new year celebration and day/weekend out is our celebration of "us" and our relationship, and we really don't participate in the Hallmark Day.

But the kids are different. for some reason, classrooms cling to valentine's day, and we would not begrudge the girls participation in it.

This year is tough. we were consumed by the play for all of last week, and Sunday, our one day off, ended up different than planned. i had thought that the girls would spend a few hours with their father in the morning, and while they were out and about, i would run and get supplies for valentines ... b/c i cannot abide the princess and transformer and spiderman pre-fab style valentines sold in the stores, we have always made our own. even though i'm not crafty AT ALL.

but then the blizzard came, and their father was here from 12-5, instead of 10-2, and everywhere was closed.

so i ran and bought some pre-cut hearts, and Thing Two is decorating them for her friends with the babysitter right now ....

but not Thing One. Thing One is in bed. She is asleep. She has a fever. She is not well. This is not good.

Last night I started to feel some chest congestion creeping in, and while working at home all day today, the aches and pains started to be a little more present. (I currently have a very sore throat, and 2 earaches, which is not how i usually get sick).

Then around 12:30, I received a call from the school, Thing One didn't feel good. She didn't wnat to come home, but she thought I should know she felt icky. She had a stomach ache. She wanted to go to the cast party, and go to her audition, but thought I should know that she felt bad.

When she got home, she didn't want to go to the audition. She thought she should just reschedule for another time .... but I pushed her to go. by the time we got home (less than 30 minutes later), she was immediately in bed, and very quickly after, sound asleep. She would never do that unless really truly sick.

I then went out and bought her that kind of valentine i hate, in case she wakes up okay. they're cool, though. these weird 3-day 60's hippy design things. no princesses, no cartoon characters. just peace signs and smiley faces.

as i've mentioned umpteen million times, tomorrow is my last day of co-op. today was bad enough, not being able to go in b/c of the blizzard (although no one did, and i did plenty of work while at home). i cannot miss tomorrow. beloved has a meeting that he has to put together tomorrow. my babysitter is free, but not until 10 a.m. So beloved and i will have to draw straws to see who gets to stay home until the babysitter arrives, and then see if either of us can possibly come home early as well.

i hope that we both get better quickly, and certainly not worse, since we're flying on Wednesday night.

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Update: Thing One woke up from her nap, and has a 101.7 fever. I will stay home until babysitter arrives, beloved will come home early and pick up Thing Two on the way, and I will stay at work indefinitely in order to finish up and clear my stuff out. all will be well - i'm sure.

posted by Zuska @ 5:18 PM

2 Comments:

At Monday, February 13, 2006 8:29:00 PM, The Marpepps! said…

Be well, both (and all) of you!
At Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:43:00 PM, Mieke said…

I hope she's feeling better.

We also don't celebrate Valentine's day. It's so nothing to me.