Nighttime

So all the kids are in bed. Bob is gone. Momentarily it is quiet. Liam and Lorelei are actually asleep, but Molly and Maggie aren't and probably won't be for another 2 hours. Which means they'll probably get spanked at some point for being too loud. If they'd behave, I'd let them stay up, but they've been rotten all day and I can't deal with that right now.
I've been in pain all day, but it's gotten significantly worse throughout the afternoon. I also feel like I'm having an allergic reaction to something, but I can't take any Benedryl because the stuff knocks me out and Bob isn't home to listen for the kids. Anyway, I feel like crap. I'm also really tired, but if I go to sleep now and get woken up by the girls, that will mess me up even more, so I have to at least wait until they're asleep. I wish I had something new to read.
Looks like we're going to be floaters (sitting in the hallway, assisting teachers with bathroom breaks) at church starting in September. We didn't really want to do anything for a year, but floating is better than teaching, I suppose. Even though you don't really teach in the 1-2s, which is the only class we volunteer for. It's ok. I've started feeling really cut off from church lately. We've pretty much backed out of every commitment we've made.
The one thing I really hate about church is the germs that get passed around. It seems like some people don't really care if their kids are sick and bring them to class anyway (and they don't think about the fact that if a sibling is sick, the other kids are probably already sick too, and are just asymptomatic at the moment and can still give it to other people). There was a bad flu thing going on recently and I know the only reason we missed it (so far) is because we skipped church last week. But I bet my kids get it if we go to church tomorrow. I hate it when my kids are sick. And it seems like no matter what they get, they always end up throwing up for one reason or another. That's the worst. They've been healthy now for a month or two and I'd like it to stay that way!
The house is not cleaned up and how much do you want to bet it doesn't get done by Monday night? I didn't even do that much yesterday but I'm still paying big time. Plus, I fell yesterday, coming into the house and that really hasn't helped at all. I did get most of the laundry washed and folded, though the kids stuff still isn't put away and I still need to move a load over to the dryer and fold the load that's in there. In the other house, the laundry closet is right in the hallway where the bedrooms are. I wouldn't even need laundry baskets!!
If I could get the basement cleaned up, I'd feel better. You can barely walk down there. But I hesitate to go down until I know the kids are asleep because if I have to walk up two flights of stairs it will really hurt!
I hate having songs stuck in my head. Particularly ones where I only know a phrase or two.
It's times like this that I really wish we had cable. We don't even get basic channels at this point. I guess I could find a movie to watch, but it's not as satisfying as channel surfing can be when you feel like crap.
Good grief. Molly's whistling. It's stuff like that that just drives me crazy. Why on earth would she think that's ok when her sister is in the bunk below her trying to sleep?
ttfn.