When you drain the oil if you can use a large glass bowl or somthing to catch the first quart or so. Then you can let it sit and see if there is water in there. The antifreeze you are smelling might be the heater core leaking. Normally when the head gasket goes it will run like crap when you start it then smooth out. Also if you fill the radiator to the top when cold and leave the cap off. As soon as it starts it will blow water out. Also the over flow bottle may be empty every day after sitting over night. If you pull the plugs and crank it over after sitting all night water will blow out one of the holes.

Water on the dip stick. Is it just white slime stuff. Many times that is because the PCV system is not working correctly. VW Bugs were bad in the winter. They did not have a PCV. But we can worry about that later. First we need to make sure the head is OK.