Day 4

In an attempt at waking up I walked outside, tried to smell the cool air with my stuffed up nose and lit up a smoke.  The morning smoke is always the hardest to stop for me.  Possibly because I go 8 hours straight without one?  Well, I took 3 drags from it and put it out.  It tasted horrible enough for me to wonder why the heck do I smoke these things anyways?  So we will see how the rest of the day goes.  Oh, and I also noticed that while on the patch that my dreams are very very intense.  Last nights was about my detective friends wife going postal and I had to stop her.  Would have made an awesome movie.  hahahaha

Lucas is still running a fever and kept being woke up by it last night.  You know those crazy dreams you have when you are sick?  A few times during the early morning he would sit straight up in his little bed and just scream.  Scared me so bad I didn't go back to sleep for at least an hour.  I'm going to see if we can beat this thing by this evening and if we can't I'm taking him into an After Hours clinic.  As for myself; I can function, but I look like I got smacked with an ugly stick more than 100 times.  Been drinking lots of PB Tea (English tea) and honey which seems to be helping me to keep up with the baby.

Side note; I have one of the most understanding, caring, loyal, trustworthy, knowledgeable, and comforting bosses in the whole world.  Of all the jobs I've ever worked, this man is the best at taking care of his people.  It's really hard as a single mom to not have to take off work when your children are sick.  We can't take them to daycare, we can't leave them home alone, anyone that would possibly help you is working too, and dad says he can't take off work to come help.  I'm sure there have been some single mom's out there that have taken advantage of their status which messed it up for the rest of us who really need help, but I've always been a trooper and will continue to be one.  It's just people like my boss that make things less stressful that I really appreciate.