Salad After Midnight

My baby woke up crying. We danced around the house, changed diapers, tried feeding, humming, singing, reclining at 90 degrees, reclining at 30 degrees, rocking chair, straight-backed chair...an hour later, he's back asleep.

No fever, which is good. Still coughing, and you can hear the phlegm, but it's all behind his throat, so that's good. It just doesn't sound great every time he cough. Nothing more helpless to a parent than watching a little baby cough away. Runny nose is drying up, also good. I really need to pick up a children's stethoscope. It's much more convenient than having to palpate and guess at the congestion.

I think he's getting better. I gave him some Tylenol infant for the fever. He's taken maybe 3 doses in two days. I should have gone for Motrin. Tylenol [acetaminophen], if abused, is hard on the liver. Unfortunately, we don't run into extra liver all that much. But then, there's this thing with Motrin and kidney. Taken exactly told in dosage information shouldn't be a problem for either. I think.

I knew it! I should have paid more attention when we're lectured on drugs and organs. Now, I only want to read my romance books. There's nothing like fiction books to unwind. I was going to catch up on reading, and in a way, I did. I checked out my blogroll and catch up on posts. I noticed that my wordpress friends new post are not showing up on blogroll. I wonder why. Anybody have any idea? I'll have to find out later.

Thursday, I was going to meet with my best friends from school, but weather and fever got in the way. It would have been fun, I'm sure. I hope we get to do it soon...perhaps very soon. We got sleet last Thursday. My kids wanted to go out and play, but we didn't let them. I already had one sick baby, and didn't need any more. DH and I rationalized that there wasn't enough ice/snow to make anything fun anyway. Sorry little darlings!

I thought I heard my husband earlier saying something about Typhoon and Philippines. *You can hum "Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel here* and if you don't know the lyrics, I'll help you.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

I was this "people" earlier. I might have made grunting noises too, not really sure. I think my darling understood.

It didn't really register. Lack of sleep. I just found out on the news very disturbing information. It's Typhoon Durian.

Typhoon Durian is the 9th powerful storm to hit the island nation [Philippines] this year and the 3rd “super-typhoon”.

Let's give a prayer for survivors of this disaster. In moments like these, I find it hard to say the right words. I don't think there is such a thing. I felt a little bad at how relieved I was to find that my friends might be far enough away from the storm. I think this is normal human reaction.

It's late, or early, depending on how you look at it. I absolutely love this time of day. Everything is so quiet. All my kids sleeping peacefully. It's wonderful. There's a lot to be thankful for.

Talking about being thankful...I must mention my mother. She's the best there is! Earlier, she came by with a new "do." She looked fantastic in it. Will add picture later [picture added now- My darling son and daughter is in the picture too]. Mama, if you're reading this, Thank you! There's not enough "thank you" in the world for you, Mama. Darling Husband and I love that you took a cranky child and made him laugh while we caught up on CSI: Miami.

MY PHOTO HUNT VOL. 8 - LIGHT

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in. ~Leonard Cohen I was not going to do photo hunt today. My baby is sick, running mid-grade fever. He's now sleeping on my chest, with the help of a baby carrier, which I now believe is the next best thing to slice bread! Having a sleeping baby on your chest with a baby carrier is pretty much like being pregnant, except I am on tenterhooks about him waking up. I can't do much of anything, but found out that I could actually sit down in front of my computer and type. That's why I am here. Below, my daughter during a walk in the park. Noticed the shadow? You can't see it without the light. That's why I decided, this one would do for the theme. Below is another example of light making things beautiful. These are the light of my life. Noticed how beautiful those leaves Fall leaves makes for a nice background. I have to take dozens of picture and come up with this. My kids are never still in sync. What a contrast it would be later on when they will actually stay still and pose for my picture.

Winter Time Again

I can always tell it's winter.

My children told me so. It starts by slight sneezing, then to runny nose. Along comes fever, low-to-mid-grade, this foretells nights of no sleeping for worrying so.

I can always tell it's winter, because of the urge to plant a garden. Fresh flowering plant, all nicely in a row. Along came the frost, and only the strongest survives.

I can tell from compulsion to buy summery things. Like skateboards, and tank-tops- they're on sale!

I can always tell it's winter, because I rejoice in Indian summers.

The End