Sickness

I am totally bummed that we are sick right now! (Although, I can't think of a time or reason I would be happy about it...) Belle started Monday night during dinner so I had to miss the Ornament Exchange with the ladies from my church that evening. In Dave's defense, he did tell me I could still go and he would be happy to take care of her, I needed to get some gatorade for her and just felt bad leaving him with her.

Then Tuesday, around 4am, I woke up to a "mommy, I threw up" and had to clean Aaron's bed, put the sheets and all in the wash and get him cleaned up. He wanted to sleep on our floor which was fine with me due to the layout of our house. Dave got up and went to work after having a very interrupted nights sleep and I stayed inside all day, trying to clean and get laundry done in hopes of de-germing my house. Belle acted perfectly fine and seemed to have even more energy than usual but Aaron was pitiful and laid around all day, watching movies and "indulging" in the BRAT diet. Yum. Belle was, of course, on the BRAT diet and I was even careful of what I ate just in case they were so kind as to share their germs. Belle seemed fine all day and after I gave Aaron some chewable tylenol for his headache and fever, he perked up and I was quite optimistic about their prognosis. My parents, brother and his family and my family were all supposed to go to Valley View Farms (one of the traditions my father doesn't want to let go) but we had to skip. Obviously.

As soon as Belle threw up Monday evening I started to feel sick and figured it was all mental (ok, Sara, I know you will have something to say about that). I felt good yesterday and was even planning on getting on the treadmill for a while but as soon as I got down from putting Aaron into bed my stomach felt like someone had just flipped a switch and I felt icky, to say the least. I will spare you all the details, but neither Dave or I slept since I was sick and Belle apparently had a relapse. He had to wash her sheets and go check on her numerous times since I was unable to even walk to her room. Poor guy! He was so exhausted when he went to work today! Dave worked so hard to help me, I don't know what I would do without him!

As of now, Aaron seems ok but is still on the brat diet, Belle threw up right before her nap this afternoon and she and I are basically on an all liquid diet for the next 24 hours. I am thankful that we are all sick now instead of at Christmas, but I am supposed to go away Monday and Tuesday and am hoping that the kids are better by then, Dave does NOT get sick at all and that I am better soon too. It would be nice to have the extra time at home to get some things done, but I don't have much energy and certainly don't want to get my Christmas baking done now. Plus I have a ton of laundry to do and de-germing on top of the million other things I need to do before 4pm Sunday if I am going to go away. Blehhhhh.

I'm sure I won't blog too much between now and Christmas, so if I don't post anything new until then, I hope you all have a Wonderful Christmas! I know ours will be the best yet as we have Belle with us this year and each child makes this holiday a little more special.