Illness & Strange Dreams
As a parent, there is nothing so horrible as your children being sick or injured or in pain, and there's really nothing you can do about it, except hug and rock and sing and be with them.
So, yes, the boys have been sick again. Started on Thursday - which I knew meant the weekend was likely to be undone - and here we are, on Sunday. Josh seems to finally be recovering, but Zach - who clearly caught it from his brother - is a day behind, which means he's in the worst of it today. Yesterday was a fantastically awful day, and I'm glad it's behind me. Still, I need to sleep for like 16 hours now.
The coughing is the worst - they wake up hacking and wheezing and gasping for air, or doing all of the above plus trying to throw up the gunk caught in their throat. No fun at all! My poor little boys.
The only nice part was the fact that Joshua crawled into my lap at one point, fever-sweaty and near-to-tears, and let me hold him and rock him in the rocking chair for a good hour. It's been so long since we've done that, and it was so nice to just hold him and rock him. I just wish he wasn't sick!
On an entirely different note, I had a very vivid, very weird dream. It was a LARP event at Darkwhimsy & Hilariarex's new site. Except they had this awesome manor of dozens of buildings connected with walk-ways and the like. The Goblin King was the ruler here (except apparently it was really Bane, and the GK was as much a prisoner in this place as I was), and we were in this weird place, somewhere between Aralis 1 and Aralis 2. But, okay, so I arrived late to the game and checked in, and then was taken to this far off room in the manor that was at once faaar from everything else and overlooking everything at the same time. So I could sit there all day long and see everything else happening, but I couldn't leave the room - I could only watch, snippets, and try and figure out what was going on. During the day, I could do none of this, as my children were here, and I spent most of the day in the nursery caring for them, with Hilariarex stopping by to fill me in on some details as to what was going on and just to chat with me, and Daemo bringing food & toys for the boys. John and Marcussezvote - as a character that was somehow a mix of both Kage and Jack Shale - was apparently leading a resistance force, and Hilariarex kept telling me it was only a matter of time before everything ended. She was dressed in very French Renaissance clothing every time she came to say this. Weird again. So apparently I could only participate in the game at night, after the kids were asleep, and the first night I spent most of my time watching and waiting for something (I knew what I was waiting for in the dream, but don't recall what it was when I woke up). At one point the Goblin King came by, and we had this very "sorrow of the elves"-esque conversation about all that had passed and was lost. We had tea, and at the end of which he asked me to marry him... so that he could have this one last bright moment before the end, he said, and so that things would pass on when he was gone. Sna? So... next day, more taking care of my boys, and Hilariarex giving updates as the manor was overrun. Daemo sitting there talking to me about classes and how the school was doing, and she was dressed as a very proper school mistress ala Anne of Avonlea. And then it was night again, and I was waiting for the Goblin King and trying to break out of the room so that I could go play the game. Except, Hilariarex came to say, that Darkwhimsy was overbooked with things to do as they didn't have enough NPCs, so eclecticgypsy filled in for him. (Huh?) It got very weird and surreal after that. And then the event was suddenly over, and everyone was there talking about what they had done, and I just had no clue because, to me, nothing seemed to happen, and I realized there was so much I hadn't been involved in. Meanwhile, I'm trying to listen to the stories being told while my boys are pulling me into the next room to play, and I'm desperately asking Hilariarex to fill me in on what happened last night , because I couldn't remember what had happened except that I knew the Goblin King was dead...
...and then I woke up to Joshua telling me to get up, that he needed a drink, and that was the end of THAT crazy dream.
So, yes, the boys have been sick again. Started on Thursday - which I knew meant the weekend was likely to be undone - and here we are, on Sunday. Josh seems to finally be recovering, but Zach - who clearly caught it from his brother - is a day behind, which means he's in the worst of it today. Yesterday was a fantastically awful day, and I'm glad it's behind me. Still, I need to sleep for like 16 hours now.
The coughing is the worst - they wake up hacking and wheezing and gasping for air, or doing all of the above plus trying to throw up the gunk caught in their throat. No fun at all! My poor little boys.
The only nice part was the fact that Joshua crawled into my lap at one point, fever-sweaty and near-to-tears, and let me hold him and rock him in the rocking chair for a good hour. It's been so long since we've done that, and it was so nice to just hold him and rock him. I just wish he wasn't sick!
On an entirely different note, I had a very vivid, very weird dream. It was a LARP event at Darkwhimsy & Hilariarex's new site. Except they had this awesome manor of dozens of buildings connected with walk-ways and the like. The Goblin King was the ruler here (except apparently it was really Bane, and the GK was as much a prisoner in this place as I was), and we were in this weird place, somewhere between Aralis 1 and Aralis 2. But, okay, so I arrived late to the game and checked in, and then was taken to this far off room in the manor that was at once faaar from everything else and overlooking everything at the same time. So I could sit there all day long and see everything else happening, but I couldn't leave the room - I could only watch, snippets, and try and figure out what was going on. During the day, I could do none of this, as my children were here, and I spent most of the day in the nursery caring for them, with Hilariarex stopping by to fill me in on some details as to what was going on and just to chat with me, and Daemo bringing food & toys for the boys. John and Marcussezvote - as a character that was somehow a mix of both Kage and Jack Shale - was apparently leading a resistance force, and Hilariarex kept telling me it was only a matter of time before everything ended. She was dressed in very French Renaissance clothing every time she came to say this. Weird again. So apparently I could only participate in the game at night, after the kids were asleep, and the first night I spent most of my time watching and waiting for something (I knew what I was waiting for in the dream, but don't recall what it was when I woke up). At one point the Goblin King came by, and we had this very "sorrow of the elves"-esque conversation about all that had passed and was lost. We had tea, and at the end of which he asked me to marry him... so that he could have this one last bright moment before the end, he said, and so that things would pass on when he was gone. Sna? So... next day, more taking care of my boys, and Hilariarex giving updates as the manor was overrun. Daemo sitting there talking to me about classes and how the school was doing, and she was dressed as a very proper school mistress ala Anne of Avonlea. And then it was night again, and I was waiting for the Goblin King and trying to break out of the room so that I could go play the game. Except, Hilariarex came to say, that Darkwhimsy was overbooked with things to do as they didn't have enough NPCs, so eclecticgypsy filled in for him. (Huh?) It got very weird and surreal after that. And then the event was suddenly over, and everyone was there talking about what they had done, and I just had no clue because, to me, nothing seemed to happen, and I realized there was so much I hadn't been involved in. Meanwhile, I'm trying to listen to the stories being told while my boys are pulling me into the next room to play, and I'm desperately asking Hilariarex to fill me in on what happened last night , because I couldn't remember what had happened except that I knew the Goblin King was dead...
...and then I woke up to Joshua telling me to get up, that he needed a drink, and that was the end of THAT crazy dream.