What's My Motivation?

Or should I say "where"? This has been a long week and I am struggling to get anything done. It started on Sunday with the baby having double ear infections. The poor little guy doesn't get fevers when he gets ear infections so I never know when he has them. He just wasn't acting like himself so we decided to have him checked out. He got some meds and was back to being sweet by Monday afternoon. But Monday afternoon, #2 had a fever close to 103 so it was another trip to Urgent Care. This time the diagnosis was strep throat. Not good in a house with four kids and extras for daycare. He stayed home Tuesday as did one of our daycare kiddos (who ended up being diagnosed with strep also.) Wednesday afternoon the baby woke up from his nap screaming, which is not normal for him at all. It took me a while to calm him down but I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I put him down to change him and saw HUGE, bright red hives all over his legs and bottom. Apparently he has a penicillin allergy. This accounted for one more trip to the doctor.

In the midst of all of this, I have had an extra little one in the daycare this week which shakes things up a bit. She's a demanding one and that makes it hard on the others because she takes so much of my time. When I have had any down time at all, I don't want to do anything! I don't want to do the dishes or laundry or cook or ANYTHING!! Honestly, I feel like the life has been sucked out of me this week. I don't want to complain, but I am in need of some serious down time. Or at least some socialization. I have such a hard time motivating myself to get things done when I feel like this. It's easy to just get sucked into the computer where I don't have to look at any of it. At least I feel like I can pop on the computer for a few minutes and have some contact with other adult life. All kids all the time is challenging!