Crazy weekend

When you have 3 kids aged between 3 to 9 and without a maid, you will rather stay at home than going anywhere if you have to bring all 3 kids along and alone. I have been full time mother for less than 2 months. There has been no big challenge for this period until THIS weekend. Hubby is away for conference for few days, so I have to take care of 3 kids and doing all the house cores all by myself. It has been messy since Friday. My youngest girl was having fever since Thursday night. And my no. 2 also joined her sister and infected by the same illness since Saturday. It has been terrible for the past few days. I had to wake up every 2 to 3 hours at night just to ensure their fever is under controlled. Mothers should understand my pain when I said the kids are having fever.

Both the girls' body temperature sometime reached 39 or even 40. My youngest girl felt so uncomfortable and cried. I had to insert Voltaren (12.5mg) into her buttock to cool down her high fever, then I used a wet cloth to wet her whole body repeatedly for half an hour (same for no. 2). I have inserted 2 Voltaren to each girl's buttock, with gap of at least 12 hours, for the 4 days fever as their fever was so high. Both girls are taking antibiotics prescribed by doctor. While taking care of 2 sick girls, I still have to fetch my eldest girl from 1 enrichment class to another from morning till evening! If my hubby is at home, I can just leave the kids at home and I do the driver job. But he was not around, I just had to carry along my girls to everywhere that I go.

I have not finished my story yet. On Sunday morning, my eldest girl had a dance performance at a school. It was supposed to be no big issue if all the kids were fine, but not with 2 sick kids who were having fever and so weak..just imagine. Not only I had to bring my second girl to consult doctor, I also had to rush to the school to bring my eldest girl to meet up her dance members and get ready for the performance. My poor no. 2 even vomited when I feed her the medicine while watching the performance! How I wish I don't have to be there, just not everything in the same weekend. I was at the school for about 3 and a half hours. It was supposed to be a very short performance, but the earlier programme were overrun and the dance performance delayed by about 1 hour!

I am so exhausted today after having sleepless nights for 4 days continuously. My youngest girl looks like already recovered today as she did not has fever since yesterday evening, but not for my no. 2 as her illness only started on Saturday afternoon. Hope my no. 2 is getting better today and I can have a better sleep tonight. That's the end of my crazy weekend.