Since last week our household has been a gong show. We just settled into our new place not too long ago. So I got to take the kiddos to the gym with me which means they have been going to the kids club more often so I can have time to excercise again.
Then when I was picking up one kid from the kids club I see another kid throwing up.
First thing I thought was, poor little one. Then I was like hopefully there is no bug going around.
My daughter had a fever then other stuff to follow. The next day my son got it. After they gotten over a fever. We did some parents night out thing, both kiddos got sick with two different things. So trying to “contain” the sickness from going from one kid to another, it has proven to be mission impossible.
I was busy trying to sanitize everything but it was more stressfull. Trying to keep them not too close, while trying to not get sick myself is hard when you are all living in the same household.
I had to tell my daughter she can’t share things right now which is confusing cause we usually tell her to share.
So we had to all stay home for a week. No play dates until we are better. Then right when my daughter was getting better, I get sick. Now it’s another week or more of being contained at home. I will still walk outside with the kids except no play dates with other kids.
I kept thinking, how would I have been able to manage this all if I was still working. A week off then another week off from being sick.
I remembered back then when I got the chicken pox in the 80’s, I caught it from a classmate. I wasn’t allowed to be too close to friends or be in school. I remember my mom and dad were worried because I missed so much school, they thought maybe I can go back. I was still embarrassed because I still had all the spots on my face and the teacher said I wasn’t allowed back until it was completely gone. So even though I got to watch tv and stuff, it was lonely.
Then my sis and other friends caught it from me. It was a long time dealing with it and it probably wasn’t fun for my parents either. This just makes me think of how to manage this when I got back to work again. How do you manage to take care of the kids and having to miss work?
I just thought, being in the same house hold means you eventually get it anyways, or in my case, I get both sicknesses. It somehow skipped my husband so far. Probably cause he is a robot.