Busy, Busy, Busy ... and Now Sick

I put the kiddos to bed early and I'm headed there myself soon. I was just sitting here reading some blogs and felt like updating mine.
The boy didn't believe me about NJ winters. He didn't believe me when I said he needed to dress warmly every day. Even after he started walking to school in nothing but a hoodie as outerwear, even after he started shivering, he never came back to get a coat in that 30 degree weather ... again. He decided running to school would be better. Until ... he caught a cold. Not only did he catch one, he passed it on to the other family members, except Nathan and Joshua. They've been spared so far.
When he had a little cold and runny nose, I didn't feel too badly saying "Ha, I told you so." Now that he's been sick a week and missed a day of school so far, I do feel a little bad having said, "I told you so." He's got it bad.
The boy didn't want to be around me after I discovered he hadn't gone to see his teacher after school then lied about it ... No, he'd rather wallow in self-pity all alone ... But he DID want me to come to his aid when he woke up with an earache. OK, I did go to his aid, but in my mind I was saying, "See? I told you so" as he fell asleep snoring and gurgling on my lap. I must admit, I enjoyed the closeness he only seems to allow comfortably when he's asleep but I'm glad I did bring a book up to his room with me. I got a whole chapter of "Attachment-Focused Parenting" read while he slept there on my lap. Ironic, I thought, that I was starting that particular book at that particular time. In the meantime, my throat was killing me. It seems a few of the others have the same problem. Grrr.
I feel like I'm in transition at this point in my life. So many things are ahead and I'm not sure how it'll all play out but I'm looking forward to blogging about our adventures of remodeling the kitchen in the sticks and bircks house, temporarily hitting the road in the RV again, possibly homeschooling in the future, and adopting again ... and again. Should be a pretty exciting year.