I'm having a really hard time with this right now. I have been sick for  a week, and nothing is being done to my satisfaction.

Most days I am getting up and doing my Bible study, which is the most important thing to me (I think I missed two days of it since I've been sick which isn't too bad considering). Most of the time I end up back in bed at some point after the study, but I still give myself a B+ for effort.

School is NOT happening. I did try a few days, but with a nasty nose and sore throat I just cannot read aloud to them (which MOST of older and younger J's school is)...and my head is swimmy and I just do NOT want to help them with math and such. I don't have children who just *do what they understand* and can be told to leave the rest, they are always asking me questions and our homeschooling is very Mom active.

Housework is barely being done. A is doing all of their laundry, but none of ours. "I didn't tell him to!"...

He's keeping the kitchen clean enough to not draw in vermin.

I'm cooking...so at least we are all eating.

I just feel like complaining today, but I want to redirect those thoughts into a *learning experience* so that this does not happen again. I know that I have asked this before (just not on the blog, I think).

How does *just do it* play out when mom and others are sick? Do you just let it all go...? surely not! Let most of it go?? That's what we are doing and it's not looking good...Make sure they know what to do and are doing it? Well, ummm...I don't feel like it!! (waah pout whine)

We do like routine, but we do not do well with schedules...including cleaning ones. We work together two times a day, normally. These work times are spent doing things that are listed on a whiteboard on my fridge. I have a column for each boy, and then a general section, which is mostly completed by A and I. As I think of things throughout the morning and afternoon I write them on the whiteboard. During cleaning times each person goes off to do what they need to do, and comes back to check it off and go to the next thing until the list is done. This works very well for us...much better than any scheduled cleaning list I have ever made. It's what fits us....

OK, so I haven't been making the list while I have been sick. I have been barking orders from the couch somewhat. It's not that they aren't doing anything, it's just that it seems that they think if mom is sitting then things get to slide...we can be more slack all around. I don't tell them that, and it's not what happens when one of them is sick, so I'm not sure where they get that idea.

Maybe I'm just cranky and don't really have anything to complain about...I admit that is highly possible. It just seems that each time we are sick I end up feeling this way. Thankfully we do not get sick very often.