Ugh, I feel like crap

I've had some cloggy throat issues for a couple of days, coupled with a decrease in my ability to taste. (Always a bad thing.) Today it's turning into a cloggy cough and I'm going to see the doctor. Every year this time I end up with either a sinus infection, or bronchitis, or strep. I'm not waiting this time for it to get so bad I can't stand it. I just hope they don't close down the schools while I'm sitting in the waiting room. Other than that, I'm almost done with DH's first sock, and it is very lovely. I just sigh whenever I look at it. I know the second one will go faster because I'll know a bit better what I'm doing. I gotta get busy on Ben's socks, though...he asked me the other day where they were! Things went as expected at Ben's teacher conference. He's brilliantly smart but incredibly distractable. He gets bored with the easy, repetitious work and as a result doesn't complete it. Which just puts him in this vicious cycle where the teacher can't mark him down as mastering the work because he hasn't done it, and therefore she can't challenge him with harder work. And he continues to be bored. I know it sounds so braggy but the fact is, he's scary smart. And since we can't afford to put him into a private school, we have to work around the liabilities of the public school system. That means we may try to supplement his regular school with a Saturday gifted program or something. Rebecca would likely qualify too (her teacher told us she might have her pulled from class to join a 4th grade reading group, since no one else in the 3rd grade reads on her level). So while we are definitely having issues, they aren't the worst issues we could have. Ben is immature and sensitive and overly dramatic. And he has major toileting issues still, which is probably the thing that bothers me most. But I just keep telling myself that when he's out wrecking my car I'll *wish* he was still little and pooping his pants.