Emma got the first half of the H1N1 vaccine yesterday.  And then today had a headache and a slight fever.  We were good parents and kept her home, even though she never broke 100°F and the fever was gone by noon.  She has to have another dose in a month or so, but I’m really hoping she doesn’t get it.  I don’t want it!  I think she had a slight reaction to the vaccine (it was the live virus given via a squirt up the nose, which she didn’t care for being the delicate flower that she is:)) and that was why the slight illness.  She’s not at school today, she was begging to go.  She’ll be there tomorrow. I’m very fortunate that she’s so healthy, we’ve been so lucky.  She gets the normal amounts of colds and flu’s, but she’s been on antibiotics ONCE in her life.  I’d say that’s pretty good. I’m just really hoping that we dodged that particular bullet.

I don’t sleep.  I’ve never slept well.  I listen to some meditation podcasts that I really really like but I’m a shitty meditator. My brain won’t shut up. I do this one for falling asleep and it DOES help, but it wants you to “visualize red” and I can’t just visualize red, I have imagine RED things.  But if they are not the right shade of red then I have to think of something else.  And so on and so forth from red to orange and all the way to violet.  I’m better than when I first started but it still takes me between half an hour to an hour to fall asleep.  On a good night   I so envy Brian his ability to fall asleep in 3 minutes, day or night. We will lay down for a nap and an hour later he will wake up refreshed and I? Am still awake.  Or I’ve just fallen asleep.  And that makes me cranky:)

So I’m off to listen to a podcast and the sound of a stream and hopefully sleep in the next couple of hours.