Weekend, Interrupted

This weekend did not go as planned!  Does it ever?  I know I am too much of a planner ( I can hear Erin and Amy laughing from here) but God is working on teaching me to live in the moment.  The number one way He has done this is by giving me 3 kids who are very prone to getting sick!

Saturday morning we woke up early and went to the Race for the Cure.  It was really cold and really early and we hadn’t slept at all!  The baby was up all night and I mean all night!  We are assuming it is the three teeth he is working on because he just couldn’t get comfortable but had no fever or any obvious sickness symptoms.  So, DH and I crawl through the race and then head to breakfast – alone, just the two of us!  This normally happens just once a year so it was so great to be together and able to talk uninterrupted.  And, did you know at a certain mexican restaurant that is in our area and open for breakfast, you can get chips and hot sauce for breakfast?  We decided this wasn’t too weird because chips are just tortillas which lots of people eat with breakfast and salsa is just tomatoes which technically, are a fruit!  Anyway, once we got ours, we noticed 4 other tables ordering them!  Did we start a trend or was it just coincidence.

As we were finishing, the cell phone rang and it showed home calling.  Our stomachs fell!  What was wrong and so much for stopping at Wal-Mart to look at flat screens!  No, everything was okay.  My grandparents wanted to girls for the day to take them to a kite festival.  Okay, great!  We can go to Ikea and finally buy that **** furniture I’ve been stressing about!  We agree to meet at our house, get the girls ready, pick up the baby and hit the road.  Uh Oh!  G-monkey has a slight fever.  What to do?  She really wants to go!  I give her Motrin and let her go.  We get the furniture.  Race back to town.  She’s worse but had a great time with the kites!  I guess I’m glad it worked out.

Sunday morning.  I am rudely awoken to loud crying!  Mommy, my throat hurts really bad!  Okay, here’s more Motrin.  You can’t go to church.  Daddy will stay home so Mommy can watch A sing.  Hurry, hurry.  Wait.  Mommy’s not feeling so well….ACKKKKKKK!  Mommy has the gastrointestinal virus that is going around.  Daddy, go to church.  Mommy and babies go back to bed!

Monday is a school holiday.  Thank you God!  A goes to MeMaw’s to spend the night.  Daddy takes G-Monkey to the doctor.  Mommy wallows on the couch!  G-Monkey has strep!  No surprises there.  Finally it is bedtime!  Mommy has cancelled her Tuesday activities.  One more day of rest and we MUST get to the grocery store.

Tuesday morning.  Mommy is up early with the baby.  He is still really fussy at night!   Decides to surprise A with pancakes for breakfast.  Oh, we are out of mix.  No problem!  I’ll make em from scratch.  Make the first round, go to wake up A.  Mommy, my tummy hurts really bad and my throat feels funny.  ACKKKKKK!  She’s burning up!  Is it strep or my virus????   Look in her throat.  Probably strep.  Give her Motrin and a bucket. (She vomits with strep or any fever) send her back to sleep.  Call school.  Finish pancakes.  What a day and it is not yet 9:00 am!

Oh, and I’ll post some pictures later!  G-monkey needs more juice.  At least she ate some of the pancakes!