Sick Day

I find it interesting that I have been sick for months, with the sniffles, headaches, coughs and even stomachaches. However I have never told Nick's family that I couldn't watch their kids for the day. Which includes feeding them, and making sure the eldest gets on the bus. Today however, their mother took a sick day. It's funny to me because most mothers say "sick day, what's that" and here she is sitting on the couch in the other room, calling to me every ten seconds because one of the kids is climbing on her, or one of the kids is getting into something two feet from her.

It's a rough line for me to draw, and I am not really sure there is a solid line. I don't get a sick day, so how does she? The agreement was that she was going to work, and trying to get the bills paid. However with her taking a sick day, the bills are a little less paid this month. Which works out for her in the end because I paid the propane bill yesterday. I think I am torn because generally the kids stay in the room I am in currently all day long, and never get into things in the other room. With her in there, they are excited to be in a new room with new people. I hate that room cause it is drafty, cold and uncomfortable, and I like being lazy on the comfy couch I am on.

I think the above scenario is one reason I would never want kids. Just because I am afraid that I would one day want, or need a sick day, and I just can't take it without feeling guilty. I think I would feel like I was abandoning them if I decided to stay in bed all day and let someone else do it for me.

Well this gives me more time to ponder why the college still hasn't called. I am not scared that he won't get it, I am just wondering what is causing them to drag their feet. He is surely the most qualified person who applied, and definitely was not greedy in his requests. I think they have to wait till graduation is over though in order to dodge the technicalities.