It is so cold that it feels like the windows are open. I can feel the cold near the windows as though it had long, snaking fingers that are trying to grab me. I hung blankets over some of the windows that were especially drafty, but I'm still burning oil like crazy.

My feet are freezing! Nothing warms them up. Last night I asked Mr. Crazy to sit on them and that helped.

The only good thing about being sick is that I've been able to sleep. I slept all night, I fell asleep when the baby napped today. Instead of being woken up by the slightest noise, I'm sleeping through the heaviest of noises. The baby started crying last night and it took me a few minutes to realize what was happening. I kept thinking it was the wireless network malfunctioning...

I made waffles for the kids this morning. I found the broom which had mysteriously vanished over the past few days, swept the downstairs but got dizzy doing it, so I curled up on the sofa and read library books.

The kids are a little better but are in foul moods and are mistreating each other. Glamor Girl widened a half inch hole in her pants to be about four inches wide, so I dealt her the cruelest blow of all.... I told her she'd have to pay me for the damage. If there's anything that child loves more than life itself, it's money. She's been fastidiously conserving quarters and even earned a dollar at one point. So I just took fifty cents from her money jar and she's not very happy right now, to say the least.

I hate punishing them but I know unless I come down on her now, she's going to cut up all her clothes with scissors as a "craft project" or something.

I'm still sick. I felt my fever start to break around noon, but then felt it creeping back a little, so ended up taking more Tylenol, which I'm trying not to do.