Winter doldrums

What's a woman to do who feels like crap. I am stuck in the house with three warring boys, not necessarily at each other but I can hear "Black Ops" going on from the down stairs and the upstairs loft. My youngest is now happy for the moment playing with play dough :-) Otherwise he is quite happy irritating and aggravating his older brothers. And I can't think straight or spell because I am all stuffed up and congested... Whine,whine,whine...!!!
Well it could be worse I suppose. It's just when I feel this bad I can't think and or write and to read and get to read one page is like pulling freaking teeth. One of my sons just came in and got bent way out of shape because I didn't want company.
I have two projects(Books) that I am working on and I am at an impasse. One is just a plain romantic suspense. The other is a historical romance. Plus I am doing research for the sequel to "The Kings of Angkor: Army of a Thousand Elephants". The nice thing about that book is it is sitting at the Copy Right office but also with a publisher right now.
I think what I am going to do is go on a hiatus from writing and just do research. My eleven year old son said the other day when he saw me reading and doing research on my favorite subject, the Apsara's of Angkor Wat. He said "They (meaning the experts in the field of Angkor Wat and Apsara's and Devatas) couldn't possibly know more then you Mom. You have lived in Cambodia..." I went on to explain that is a field of study for them. They have money to do research and can travel to Angkor Wat if they don't already live n the country. I have to do any research by books and the internet. They have fallen in love with the country and now the Apsaras and Angkor Wat. BUT I appreciate his faith in me. His eyes became glazed over soon after I had gotten into detail about the fact that I think along with some of those experts that all of the reliefs are individual portraits of girls at the Angkor Wat Complex.
I can tell you I had quite a few serendipitous moments while writing that book. I had already decided about the characters and how they would be related to one another through the story. It's a story that takes place in the current times and then goes back in time or as a SCIFI relative told me who is only 13. It's a parallel time .(Yes!! He understood). I had to two main male protagonist as cousins in modern day and back in the time of the building of Angkor Wat. Then I find out through more research that Suryavarman II who build Angkor Wat was indeed a cousin to Jayavarman VII. I can tell you I got chills up and down my spine. I had quite a few of those moments.
Well anyway now that I feel better I will get back to research and check on my soup.