Snot.

Well, small son got me out of bed this morning by saying "oh oh!" "oh oh!"... and of course we know it could be a ruse, or something serious. It was neither: he was really concerned, and I was like, oh, it's ok.

He had enough green snot RUNNING out of his nose that it had gooped on his sheets.

He seems sprightly enough, and unlike mama, doesn't seem to have lost his voice yet. Though he was coughing last night in bed a bit.

But I don't think we should go to gymnastics tomorrow, where he will snot up and down all the vinylcovered foam equipment, and then other little ones will slide THEIR faces into his snot. oh dear. I worry more for the voiceless mamas than the wee tykes. It is VERY HARD to be a voiceless mama. He points constantly and expects me to tell him what things are. Or he vocalises and expects me to repeat (somewhat more intelligibly) or confirm. If not, he will just continue to up the volume as he repeats OVER and OVER "aahxhi! aahxhi! AAHXHI!! AAAAAAKKKXXXHHHIII!!!" that will only stop when mama says "yes, Dao sweetie, a TAXI." ... rince and repeat.

Mama's voice is NOT getting better.

I looked online and it says do not speak and do not clear your throat.
I am failing at the first, and it is very hard not to do the second, when you are trying to speak and be heard (or they ask you to repeat yourself), and your body is desperately trying to reject thin strings of thick green mucus from your vocal chords. Oh dear.

I think I will have to cancel not only gymnastics tomorrow morning, but also the mandarin class on Tuesday afternoon... hahaha, we have SPEECH THERAPY on Tuesday morning (why the Mandarin was pushed to the afternoon)...

And then I have my homestudy for the 6 month update for China on Wed morning. I suspect that if I do the speech therapy and mandarin on Tuesday, I will be writing my answers to the social worker on Wed, instead of speaking them. Oh dear. Bad timing for a cold with laryngitis.

Hey, do y'all clean the house and tidy up all surfaces for a social worker visit? If the child is already adopted? I mean, I'll vaccuum, but do I need to spend a whole day straightening things out? Or just leave it normal and lived in?? Any hints or reassurances would be most welcome.

Let's just say with all the snot and lack of voice, we are not feeling the most motivated to clean...

on other news... I am really bummed that diaryland, the home of my old (ie 2003) online diary, has "upgraded"... ie still has the same old technological hics, but now with a horrid grey, black and redorange theme (it was cheery periwinkle blue and yellow before... to tell the truth, the same color of my flannelette sheets, cuz they make me feel cozy). And the layout has gone all wonky, with busy text boxes all over. Depressing. Oh well. At least here at typepad we still have white and spring colors. cheers.

Comments

[runergirl]

ALso, don't whisper!! It strains your vocal chords even more than talking.

[Blue Opal]

I really need to bookmark or whatever - I keep forgetting about it. Do you have a notify list? (And one thing that really works well for me when I lose my voice is a shot of peppermint schnappes right before bed, together with a nice hot bath. Not perfect, but one of the least "druggy" feeling options.