Almost by the dashboard light, but not really. Thursdays have always been my favorite day, because they’re like a really good caramel macchiato: full bodied, sugared-up and raring to go. Yes, Thursdays, you are my day to accomplish what I failed to deliver upon during the preceeding days of the week.

Today, I looked forward to two whole hours of time in which I could work on my sites and begin to finalize my plans for the semester. I have found, indeed, that two hours is enough to get things done when you don’t have a house full of kids trying to sabotage your efforts with their peanut butter fingers and cute little quips like, “you’re not evil, Mom, Dad is evil.” But, alas, the Thursday fates had other plans in store for me, because two of my kids are now home sick.

The first call came about 20 minutes into my work/school-a-thon. Fever. Headache (yeah, tell me about it). Run to school, bring home sicko #1, dose with advil, try to finish paragraph for school. 30 minutes later, the 2nd call comes in. Cough. Just a cough, but a cough that evidently is distracting him enough that his teachers felt it necessary to walk him to the nurse. “Should I come and get him?” I asked.

“Well, he’s distracted, but there’s no fever, so its up to you,” the nurse replies.

“I’ll be there in 30 minutes,” I say, even though I live two minutes from the school. He should have had the foresight to get sick at the same time his brother did, because that would have been much more convenient, so now he’s on my schedule. That’ll distract him, and proves that I am evil.

Karma, you are a bitch. I’m just saying that because I realize that this is some sort of payback for the wrongs I have done in a previous life – that half of my kids are sick and that likely the other half are incubating this plague, which means that we’re all going to be sick until March. I can already feel the hypochondria creeping up.

The ONE THING that makes this all better? I was listed on a “100 Must Read Blogs by Women“… blog. I’m Internet famous, baby!