I spent the weekend with my sister and niece here in Boston. Unfortuantly, I was fighting a cold at the time. Tuesday, the cold really got me, so yesterday, I decided to stay home from work. I helped get the kids moving and then climbed back into bed around 8:40am. I woke up again at 12:30, rolled over and finally climbed out of bed at 2:15. I am feeling much better today, so I guess I really needed the sleep. I knew I was pushing myself over the weekend, but I didn’t think I really needed that much.

The H1N1 is starting to go around town again. My co leader’s family all came down with it, and several other families in town have had it. I am waiting for our peds to have the vaccination in shot form. Due to Jay’s crohn’s disease, we can’t have the flu mist. The pediatricians office only has the H1N1 mist. Sigh.

I am continuing on my destressing project. This week has not been good as I have scheduled two meetings and attending two meetings and have a girl Scout meeting to run. I have been overwelmed with mom guilt because Soleil is afraid to have me kiss her. She doesn’t want to catch my cold. On one hand, that is smart, but on the other hand, I feel so left out. I need to sit with her and work on her reading. She’s been blowing through her large words at school. It’s not a matter of not knowing, it is the idea that she can’t go slow. She has to move move move. And I am like that too. But she needs to learn how to read carefully and learn how to deal with new words.

Maybe tonight when I get home from another meeting I can help her… We’ll see.