Bait and Switch

Just when you thought I was back, I got hit with some kind of nasty, voice-stealing fever thing. I have been in bed for the past three days and Cole has been on main-mom duty for same.

This is the first time I've been sick since Nat came home. In fact, I haven't been sick since last December when I was laid up at my mother-in-law's house for almost two weeks. But I'm realizing what an impossible thing it is to get sick when you have kids. Nat totally doesn't get why I'm not doing everything I usually do. She is doing just fine, having photo shoots with Cole and all (see photo album) but she is mightily confused every time Cole plops her on me so she can engage in luxuries like showering, eating, or, you know, peeing and then scoops her back up again before I've done any of the usual Mama Shannon stuff.

Anyway, whilst I recover, ya'll have a nice Genocidal Maniac Day Weekend. I also have a big freelance job (if "voluntary and free of charge"=a "job") due Monday and my online class starts in a week and a half. So I'll see you as soon as possible.

Enjoy the new photos.

Comments

[cluttergirl]

mmm, yes, very depressing reading. I realise you are a christian (aren't you?) but I don't know. Those people on the islands were as jesus would have said. Giving, sharing, turn the other cheek, hospitable to the stranger. And they were massacred. All the 'if you help others, god will help you" "everything happens for a reason" "it'll all turn out in the end, just you see" "good people will prevail" etc is some seriously deluded history-ignoring platitudes. Over and over hopeless people were hopeless because there was no hope. Like those in Rwanda who wrote, please come tonight or tomorrow we shall be dead. Not might be dead, shall be dead. I don't believe that watching your whole world torn apart cruelly in front of your eyes, your children decapitated and sliced up, your land devastated etc is a learning experience, nor the price to pay on a satanic earth for paradise in god's heaven. I don't know how anyone believes these things. And saying the lord works in wondrous and mysterious ways we cannot fathom, and all is as it should be just doesn't cut the muster with me, and hasn't since i was six or eight and learned about apartheid and vietnam. anyways, I am not celebrating thanksgiving, and if I did, it would be to give thanks to the same wonderful world that those island people lived on and shared freely with, as the earth shares freely with us. Thanks for the reading, depressing as all get out that it is. :D

I hope you get well soon. Your daughter is growing in leaps and bounds, and looks happy and loved to bits! Such a cutie!

[Angel]

Hope you're feeling better soon!!

[hayhay]

*smiles*

Since you have some extra time on your hands, you have a spelling mistake on the "About Me" page...

" professorial partner "

Hehehe... sowwie :)

Also, great site, great articles... CUTE baby!

[witchtrivets]

Oh yes, genocidal maniac day -- I forgot it was a holiday. Although some of mwt's family members called to wish us a long weekend. What long weekend? Well, at least, like with everything else in the US that is supposed to have meaning, this holiday has been turned into an excuse to sell mattresses and cheap plastic crap to the masses. Actually, in this case, I guess it applies. Columbus would be so proud to see what the US has become.

[Maria Morris-Burke]

Hope you are feeling better and that the cold bug or flu bug doesn't travel to your partner or the baby.
Loved the new photo!