For a late, all-night illness is a personally satisfying feeling.

The sickling apparently has an ear infection. The kind where they cry all night. There was no fever, which is atypical for ear infections at our house. At 1:00 when I was awoken by the sickling, I was able to give him a pain reliever AND I even had the ear pain relief drops. Granted these things brought relief for short spurts of 1.5 hours, but I was able to get some sleep.

DH has taken the sickling to the local hospitals outpatient clinic. I remained to do homework with the rest of the kids, who are all rather reticent at this time to tackling school work. The spelling word kid is protesting (which I'm managing to ignore and keep on writing this post).

DH spent $5.00 at Wendy's yesterday for Frosty's for the sledders. Today was $20.07 on groceries (we returned - as a treat - to donuts for breakfast) of which $2 should be refunded because DH was overcharged for milk. We have to pay $4 for family admission for oldest daughter's basketball away game today. I anticipate a prescription for the ear infection - a coupon is in the Target ad today - what good timing for bad luck! We also need new batteries which are required for a gift that DS got last week - $9 for 20 Duracell.

Spending is all in check. I hope I manage to get through the day with no sleep ... hmm, I wonder ...