Day Off

Today we had a day off.  Of course!  Actually by early last night the fever had broken and he  (and I ) slept well through the night.  That said, he woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed at 4.30am.  He was wide wide awake and so by extension was I.  The disadvantage is that there is really no TV at that time of the day.  I can't really just send him out to watch TV because there is actually nothing on.  I was just grateful that he was feeling well.  It had been a long and fairly scary weekend.  There was no reason to send him to school even though he was getting better.  Yesterday before bed he was so dizzy and run down, that he had to have something to hold onto to get to the shower and eventually looked so unsteady, I just carried him.  He could have a day to rest.

This is what we did today:

We made geometric shapes out of the Magnetics play box.  Levi loved that you could make a pyramid with either a square base or a triangle one.  His preference was for the square base but we made plenty of each, and cubes and any number of other shapes.

We also watched DVDs, lots of them.  It was one of those really fun parenting days.  I just really enjoyed being with him.  We wrestled and played games and just generally enjoyed being with each other.  There was no reason to go anywhere and we had no agenda, other than not doing anything too active.  I had fun again and I realize that I have missed that.  I needed a reminder that it isn't all about getting stuff done and frantically trying to make ends meet.  It isn't about getting lunches in lunch boxes and school clothes on.  It is about enjoying each other's company.  It is about having fun.  I am going to try very hard to remember that in all the chaos of 'real' life!