OmegaMom

…the dotter is getting better.

The pediatrician (nice lady!) thinks it’s an adenovirus, and it just has to take its course.

I’m hoping to the Kozmik All that she will be all pink-eye-free by Monday, so she can go to school when it starts up again.  As she is still pink-eyed, even after five days of one eye prescription and a half-day of a different eye prescription, she still can’t go back to her out-of-school care place. 

Am I a bad mommy if I just say:  AGGGHHHHH!!

The dotter has been out of commission for just over a week now.  Today’s visit to the pede was graced with OmegaDad’s presence because I pretty much informed him that I was burned out, I was tired to the bone, and it was his turn to help.  Anyway, luckily the illness never reached Dotter Stage 3, but has chugged along at Stage 2 forever. 

Can I say that I am really really looking forward to next Monday, and a healthy child??  I had all this time off, and didn’t get to use any of it as planned.  Wah!

In other news:  The planned mural in the dotter’s bedroom has been languishing in my fertile imagination for months now.  See, I was looking for horsie coloring pages or silhouettes or pictures that I could dump into my photo/art program and manipulate into all being about the same size.  But the pics I kept finding were…well, some were small, some were large, some were fuzzy, some required lots of fiddling…The end result, alas, is that the horsie mural stayed in my head, rather than showing up on the dotter’s bedroom wall.

However!  Since one of OmegaDad’s shameless bribes incentives for the dotter to take her medicine (which she has had copious amounts of) is a dip into the "goody bag" filled with cheap (aka less than $2) toys-n-things, he has had to replenish the stock a few times this week.  Today…today the dotter pulled out…

…a horsie coloring book!

A veritable bonanza of all things horsie!  And all in more or less similar sizes and styles!  And we have a scanner!  So after I post this post, I will be diligently scanning coloring pages so I can create templates so I can paint that damned much-anticipated mural!  Woohoo!

Onto more topical things:  Johnny wrote a post about New Year’s resolutions, in which he states, "I just believe that the best resolutions are those you keep to yourself."  This is something that resonates with me for a different reason:  I fear stating my resolution and then falling flat on my face.  Julie, over at Using My Words, had a post about resolutions, too, that ended up essentially saying her resolutions this year were more "general goals" than specifics with action plans–which fits right in with another blogger’s approach, to unify your resolutions under one word to direct your life for the coming year.  (I thought Julie had pointed me to the Christine Kane post, but it wasn’t her, and now I don’t remember whose post I read about her post on…)

Anyway, I think I have a goal this year.  But, like Johnny, I’m not going to talk about it.  Neener, neener.  It is, for me and for us as a family, a breathtaking and exciting goal.  Goodness knows if I will succeed.