my day off

starting 11:42 a.m.

jake was feeling poorly this morning, like, really bad. his throat was apparently killing him, and he seemed to be about to hack up a lung. that meant that each time he coughed, he cried out in pain because of his throat. *sigh* so i gave him a day home sick. which means that i'm home as well! however, as it tends to happen when one stays home from normal activities, he started to feel better. i think this is in part because of the lemon/cloves/ginger/honey infusion i made him, in part because he had warm, slippery oatmeal for breakfast, and in part because it's often the case that when you're ill you feel absolutely worst as soon as you wake up. regardless, he's only allowed to lie around today and drink tea and eat soup, no matter how much he whines. thankfully for me, we have a stash of disney movies that he's watching while lying on the couch. he's been through mary poppins and dumbo so far this morning. he'd really love to go out and play, but when you're home sick in my house, you stay prone and drink strong infusions! it's the rules. staying home is not a thing to be taken lightly.

i'm also making him some veggie soup for lunch: water, better-than-boullion (veggie), carrots, potato, onion, pasta, zucchini. i'm looking forward to it even if he's not ;)

which puts me to mind of that old story "stone soup" where the whole village gets together to have some of this miraculous soup made of a stone, and they each bring one vegetable to add to the pot and they are amazed at the wonderful soup that comes out of it.

in other news, i think i may have discovered the thing that is making the fridge reek. there were some now-almost-liquid green onions in a ziplock bag in the drawer. fingers crossed that that's what it was!!! figuring out which of the many veggies in the fridge is giving off that rotting smell is rough work when the fridge is almost always full. maybe i'll give it a bit of a cleaning today before we head to the csa pickup.