It still amazes me how relatively healthy a small child with a temperature above 100 can be.

This is probably first-time-parenting-know-nothing crap for me, but if Emeline has a cough or a sniffle I whip out the thermometer, just to be sure. Because she, too, has had boiling hot fevers and still been jumping around and lively as though everything was just skip-dandy.

I can usually deal with a fever of 100-102 myself without being too dragged out, but...with kids it's impossible to tell. Seriously.

Oh, to be that superhuman again.

I'm listening to "Fairytale of New York" right now, AIFG!

ETA: ND, are you around? Could you hop onto AIM if so?

{{{Nora}}} Again, very sorry to hear about another loss in your family circle.

Fay, there was somebody in the Homicide book who quite literally used his last breath to say he stabbed himself shaving.

Nora, there are no words. I send you hugs and sympathy and love.

Nora, so sorry.

It is one of my ringtones.

Fun! I haven't gotten into the ringtone thing. I'm not even sure how to get ringtones on my 5 yr old phone.

Because I am a HUGE dork, my ringtones come from old-school arcade video games. Every once in a while I get a message and whoever else is in the room does a major doubletake and says "wait, was that Pac-Man?!"

I've been making calls and stuff- feeling a little better about my decision to stay at home today. Looks like I will be going down on Friday, staying till Tuesday. Whee, yet another unplanned for expense. (feeling horrible that it is even in my mind like that)

I'm just telling you guys this so it's out of my system before talking with family.

killed the thread with my avarice and heartlessness!

Best to get it out here, Nora. I'm so sorry about your uncle.

I was cleaning up an egg. Owen's become obsessed with them and keeps getting them out of the fridge and breaking them. I finally boiled some to keep in a bowl if he wants to play with them but he prefers the raw eggs. I think I've cleaned up a half dozen in the last two days.