Beat the Bug

Getting the stomach bug was not the way I wanted to lose the last of my baby weight, but it seemed inevitable as the bug swept through our house last week. Emily woke up last Tuesday morning and it seemed that she either spit up in her crib or had gotten sick. We were not sure because she was acting normal and never cried at night, but she woke up a mess. We went on about life normally becuase we thought that she was fine. We had friends over(thankfully they all stayed healthy), met my mom and Nana for dinner on Wednesday evening and then (pause) it really hit. Logan woke up Wednesday evening and threw up several times. He was pretty scared, but after a few rounds fell asleep for the rest of the night. The next morning he was fine, except he did not want to eat much. Understandable. This was the first time he has ever thrown up. Now, we look back and think that Emily must have gotten it first and given it to him.

Matt was off on Thursday and we got the van inspected and got an oil changed and then (pause) it hit again. Both Matt and I can home from getting the oil changed and simultaneously went to different bathrooms and were sick. Thank goodness for two bathrooms. I had it all evening and Matt had it into the night. By morning we were recovering. THANK. THE. LORD.

One of my biggest worries is throwing up and I get anxiety just thinking about parenting, being sick and having to take care of the kids all at the same time. I know, there are a lot of things to worry about when it comes to parenting, but this is one of my worries. How do you take care of the kids when the parents are sick??? The Lord answered our prayers and we both started to get sick around the time the kids went to bed and the sickness did not last for days. Matt did have to call off work the next day, without having any sicktime built up, but the chief is nice and is letting him make up the day on one of his days off.

My mom did catch the bug from us and it was very unfortunate that it was hours before she left for a missions trip to Nicaragua. She did let us know that she is doing well and by the time the plane was almost to Atlanta she was starting to feel better. Praise the Lord.

I know that having kids means getting sick from time to time. I am just glad that even though we did not feel well we got through this first fight with the stomach bug. We definitely kicked it and are back to 100%. YAY!!!

Logan on his "Sick Bed"