We rang in the New Year with the stomach flu. Awesome.
Okay, so not awesome in the slightest.
But let me tell you that it is one way to lose 5 pounds between Christmas and the New Year. I don't recommend it, but it happened over here. All of us got it. Even little Zoe. So, so sad when a little baby gets sick. She wasn't sick for very long, though. It was sort of inevitable considering she was in between sicky me and sicky Kate all day on Friday. Weston was in town with the boys, and then came home with a sicky Spencer. Jiles had it Wednesday night just after my big brother Brian and his girlfriend left (pictures of that coming), Ezra had it the week before, and now Weston feels icky. He was up all night last night, and now is out moving the herd.
Zoe did, however, LOVE the 2 1/2 days of being right next to me napping, or nursing, or talking to me, or just lying there. She is such a content and easy baby! No complaints from her.
Well, unless one of her brothers wants to be near her, or worse, all 3 at the same time. They are not the gentlest or quietest of creatures, yet. We'll get there, er close enough, one of these days maybe. When they all come around it just gets plain crazy and she has no other choice but to cry in for reinforcements.
I don't blame her in the slightest. I do the same. Our boys (okay the oldest girl, too, at times) are a wee bit, uh, energetic. We'll leave it at that.
Okay, so another blessing of the stomach flu, besides, you know, the stomach workout and weight loss (playing Pollyanna's "glad" game here) is feeling so helpless that by the time you feel better, you are ready to conquer the world. Or, at least, conquer your house with Lysol wipes. No, really, I am so ready to clean and organize my home. It's one of my New Year's resolutions: organize! Where's my sister Julie when I need her?! Jules??
And my word theme for the year:
P R E P A R E !
Yes.
To be prepared and ahead of the game.
Seriously I am so not good at this preparing business most of the time I'd say, and it gets me into so much trouble! It is really hard to wing it with a family of 7. Some areas I'm better at preparing and some not so much.
Oh yeah. When Weston came home with a sick Spencer last Friday, he also declared that our Suburban was totaled. It overheated again, even though it's winter, and blew a gasket or something like that. So we can't drive it, which means that we can't go anywhere with more than 3 children right now, which is a problem since we have five.
New car?
Or $2000 more into Black Magic '99 (the suburban)?
HaPPy NeW YeAr!
5 comments:
Call me! I've been thinking about you all day.
I call just don't go anywhere. My car battery has been dead for who knows how long, and I have been able to get so much done around the house.
so sorry you guys were sick. yuck. I would rather do thousands of sit ups.
Jamee
xoxo
Sounds like we had a similar celebration last week. My parents just returned from their mission and between them, my brother, Mr. P, La Chiquita, me,one of my nieces,and my cousin's son we all got the stomach flu. From the experience I learned that a couple of IVs will put the spring back in my step really quickly. Sounds like this yuckiness is making its way throughout Idaho. I'm just so grateful that it lasts for only one day. What if we had to deal with it for a week?!
Happy New Year to you, too! Love your theme of preparedness.
how many people does a tractor hold?
dang! I'm sorry for bringing the flu.
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