I think we are out of the woods.<\/p>\n
For the last 10 days, our house has been covered in sickness. It all started on Mother’s Day oh so many moons ago.<\/p>\n
The plan was for Kevin to arise early with the kiddos and distract them so I could sleep in. There was talk of a coffee run with maybe a warm yummy thrown in for good measure. I had dreams of awakening sometime around 10ish to the smell of coffee at my side, unfolding the Sunday paper and reading in bed until I decended at noon for presents and general adulation from my adoring children. That was the plan, anyway.<\/p>\n
Reality, well, that was a mite different. Instead of the smell of warm coffee and donuts, I was greeted with the unmistakable stench of vomit.<\/p>\n
Kevin rushed into our room around 6:45am and woke me. He thrust my smallest into my arms and sprinted to the bathroom where he hurled and hurled. He was horribly sick. So much for sleeping in.<\/p>\n
I put Kevin back in bed and rustled the kids up and fed them. Kevin re-emerged around 10am feeling a little better but still looking peaked. His mom was here visiting so I decided to take Leina to Costco and leave Kulia home with Kevin and grandma. I figured Grandma could be in some good sister snuggling while Kevin slept off what I though was food poisioning.<\/p>\n
Leina and I were eating our way through Costco when we got a frantic all from Kevin. Kulia was really sick and had been vomiting all morning. Leina and I rushed home. I was bearly in the door when Leina walked over to me, leaned over, and vomited all over the kitchen floor and my feet. This was not food poisioning. This was the most dreaded of all viruses, the stomach flu.<\/p>\n
Sister had nailed her room and Leina’s room. Leina had covered the kitchen. Our whole house smelled faintly of vomit and sweat. It was nasty. Grandma decided she didn’t want to risk it and high-tailed it out of our house leaving me with three very sick people. It was horrid. Lots of changing sheets, clothes, and running of laundry. Kevin was wipe and so were the kids. My mother’s day present this year was not jewelry or food or clothing. No, this year I got immunity for the stomach bug. And thank goodness.<\/p>\n
So for the last 10 days the girls have been fighting this flu. I don’t know if they are passing it back and forth or what. All I know is that once one stops vomiting, the other starts. Back and forth. Back and forth. Yesterday was the first day where neither child vomited or blew a diaper. (Oh yes, did I forget to mention the horrific diarreha that accompanied the virus? How could I have over looked that!)<\/p>\n
I’m hoping against hope that we are truely out of the woods and that I have changed my last set of crib sheets. How I dodged this illness I have no idea but I’m so thankful to have missed it. This is one Mother’s Day I’ll never forget. (No matter how much I want to.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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