First for the TMI.....all 6 of us have had the stomach bug in the last 7 days! A few things to be thankful for about it, though:
1) It's been very mild for the children (though Brian and I were harder hit).
2) All but one of us knows how to make it to the toilet or a bucket, so clean-ups were very minimal.
3) We've saved a lot of money on groceries and the healthy kids have gotten lots of mac and cheese and pb&j's--their favs!
4) It hit Brian and I 24 hrs. apart, so we were able to tag-team taking care of the kids
5) The kids were all really troopers through this...in between getting sick they were playing, dancing, laughing, etc. Brian and I definitely were not like that!
And two amazing facts:
1) Kellen and Dawson got sick in the middle of the same night, only 3 minutes apart!
2) Brian broke his 9 year streak of not throwing up! Any of you Seinfeld fans? There's an episode where Jerry is feeling sick but doesn't want to throw up b/c he doesn't want to break his "streak" of non-vomiting since June 29, 1980! We were laughing about that this week!
Hopefully we're done with this nonsense and will be back to normal now! Sorry to any of you who we infected! There are so many people who have this bug right now, though, that we'll just say it was someone else who made you sick!
2) All but one of us knows how to make it to the toilet or a bucket, so clean-ups were very minimal.
3) We've saved a lot of money on groceries and the healthy kids have gotten lots of mac and cheese and pb&j's--their favs!
4) It hit Brian and I 24 hrs. apart, so we were able to tag-team taking care of the kids
5) The kids were all really troopers through this...in between getting sick they were playing, dancing, laughing, etc. Brian and I definitely were not like that!
And two amazing facts:
1) Kellen and Dawson got sick in the middle of the same night, only 3 minutes apart!
2) Brian broke his 9 year streak of not throwing up! Any of you Seinfeld fans? There's an episode where Jerry is feeling sick but doesn't want to throw up b/c he doesn't want to break his "streak" of non-vomiting since June 29, 1980! We were laughing about that this week!
Hopefully we're done with this nonsense and will be back to normal now! Sorry to any of you who we infected! There are so many people who have this bug right now, though, that we'll just say it was someone else who made you sick!
Okay, onto "Ike" news. After slamming into the Gulf Coast Friday, it hit us last night. We had strong winds and some rain. Our backyard looks like a minefield right now, with small limbs and twigs everywhere. We had a medium-sized branch fall on our deck, but no damage. We have 22 trees in our backyard alone, so we were very thankful that there was no serious damage on our property. Our neighbor across the street, however, lost a HUGE tree, which thankfully fell away from his house and has been completely blocking our street all day. The kids have gotten a kick watching cars zoom down our hill and round the corner, only to find they have to turn around in our driveway and go back! The city has been working on it with chain saws for the last 6 hours and they still haven't made enough progress where people could drive around it! I talked to a friend a little earlier today who lives about 15 miles outside of town....she said that their town won't have electricity until Tuesday! I told her they could come take showers at our house for only $5/head! ;-)
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It is crazy that Ike could leave so much damage in Jonesboro! Our neighbor's tree snapped at the bottom and landed on their car!
I'm glad you all are feeling better! We all had it too andI agree, it is AWESOME when the kiddos can make it to the toilet!
That was the craziest wind! I was up all night wondering everytime it blew really hard if our large tree in the back was coming down. I know that's really dumb! Like there's anything I could do if it did!
Dia
Here is Louisville we also got Iked. We have been without power since Sunday. I have been hanging out at the in-law's who have power during off hours. Ron is bent out of shape about it, but things could be worse. Our house could be floating in pieces in the ocean like the poor folks in Texas. We do have a gas water heater so we are able to rough it at home. I do have to say that I never really did like camping.
OH you are sooo generous only $5! Who would want to pay for a shower in your Flu infected house ;)
The fair looks like fun! We opted out this year due to funds! We'll start in a couple years when David's salary goes up and all the boys can enjoy it! Ok maybe next year!
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