Sinus Trouble

I have yet another sinus infection and it's quite the struggle to carry on as normal when all I can think about is the bed. It's amazing to me how one part of your body can make you feel so freakin awful. I didn't think I was running fever until mid day when I kept having to pop the Tylenol to keep pain at bay and my fever down. Of course, Brad's on shift today and I have no help so I just slept in....in my former life that used to be til noon........in my present life sleeping in is now til 8, if that. We went ahead and tackled school.......which I'm not exactly sure was the wisest thing given my irritability and overall feelings of crap. We started late which made the day drag out a little longer. I finally was able to lay down with Aubrey while Grayson and Evye watched and tended to Garrett as they folded clothes.......seeing as how Garrett's nap was over about 5 minutes after I laid down. I felt a little better after I got up.

But then, as always, I tend to be a little obsessive about the boys' hair and if it starts even looking a little fuzzy it drives me insane. There is no reason to have orphan like looking kids and it just aggravates me to even look at them when they start looking orphan-y......I think I just made up a new word with that one. Strange and kind of obsessive, I know.......but, it's just the blunt truth. So, I valiantly overcame myself and feelings of self pity over feeling so crapped out and set to work on all 4 boys. Given Gavin's completely baldest of bald heads there's not much to do on his hair...or lack thereof.....just yet. You know, it's quite amazing to me how we can go from having a kid like Garrett with soooooo much hair that it's almost like having a white headed mini gorilla in 16 month old human form to the very next kid after him being so entirely bald it leaves me hoping that he will maybe at some point have hair in his life for his sake. It's still just so amazing and amusing to me how differently genetic make up can be and can differ in one family. There's absolutely no denying at all that they're all related but after I got finished shaving heads I looked at the massive pile of hair and there was brown, red, blonde and white. How can they look so much alike and have every different hair color in the book? And how in the world did all of those different hair colors from me and Brad? It never ceases to amaze me how our heritage and the generations play into our children's lives. I wish so much sometimes that Grandpa could've seen them and that the children had been able to know the great heritage they have and how incredible of a person he was...that he could've been to them what he was to me. Sometimes it hard not to wonder why so many people my age still have their granddad around when mine died 22 years ago. Sometimes it's really something to think of the magnitude of what it might would've changed in my life had he lived. Would Grayson even be here? Would I have married Brad? Probably not. Where would I be? It's something how 1 event has the potential to alter the rest of your life. "For He causes all things to work together for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28. And indeed He did.

Alright......well, that was just a major case of chasing bunnies. So, I felt bad and cut the boys' hair. And I suppose everyone's starting to settle into the school routine. The only disastrous mess that the younger ones managed to accomplish today while the older ones schooled was making a grand attempt at showering themselves. They had been great and been playing "quietly"......which is always on the relative end of things....and then quietly disappeared as we were wrapped up in getting math out of the way. I went looking for them when I realized no one was watching Homeward Bound or even anywhere near to play with the toys that lay in the floor. I found them all 4 butt naked in the DRY shower with a WET soap filled loofah all scrubbing each other off. Garrison was by far the soapiest since it appeared he was quite taken with the bubbles and attention being showered upon him........quite literally. But Grant and Garrett were not far behind in the soap rankings and Aubrey, of course, was just as naked as the other 3 but pristinely dry and bubbleless since she was the one heading up the event and in charge of soaping down the others. But they all smelled really good and, except for a few cases of screaming due to stinging eyes, they were all immensely enjoying their waterless shower. You know......it wouldn't really surprise me if somebody actually came out with a waterless shower someday. They have dry ice so what's to say somebody won't invent dry water..........and after today's episode I think I may have given birth to the 4 that will.

Well, seeing as how I still feel like a piece of poo I think I'll go down a bottle of Nyquil and then another of Benadryl and see if that will help get me through the night.