Setback

One downside of spending lots of holiday time with extended family is that there are so many opportunities to share germs.

People started getting the stomach flu last Saturday, and Evan threw up Sunday morning – though fortunately he was only sick once and aside from taking a long nap was pretty easy to handle. The bug spread from one relative to the next, though our little family was fortunate in making it through Christmas Eve and Christmas Day unscathed. Jarom went in to work on Thursday to catch up on a few things, but he came home after only a few hours – he’d come down with the bug too! He was definitely out of commission all day yesterday, and stayed home to rest today. I was glad that he felt up for watching the kids while I went to the grocery store, and thrilled when he offered to make dinner for us.

In the middle of dinner, June threw up.

I’m still not sure if she put too much food in her mouth and gagged, or if she had the stomach flu. We washed her off, cleaned up, and by the time she was done with a bath, she was running around like nothing had happened. She and Evan played tigers/pirates/dinosaurs/cavemen for a few hours until I finally put them in bed.

So maybe this is the end of it?

For now I’m hoping that June doesn’t get sick again during the night, and that I manage to avoid coming down with anything. And in the meantime, please forgive this very late post! See you again on Monday?

Alone

Last night we went to Jarom’s work Christmas party. His parents had generously agreed to watch our kids, and when we got there, we found out they had also generously agreed to let one set of cousins spend the night because the other set of cousins was arriving from California that evening. I’d brought pajamas for my kids in case we were out late and they needed to get to bed, but we left in such a hurry – without indicating that this was the pajamas’ purpose – that Jarom’s parents, reasonably, assumed that our kids were also spending the night.

So they did.

They also generously agreed to watch the kids all day today until Jarom got off work and went to pick them up. That means that I had no kids last night, and NO KIDS TODAY.

At all.

I took advantage of this by sleeping until 1pm, with a pleasant interruption in the morning of my buddy Megan bringing me cookies. Yes, I will gladly stumble out of bed for that! No one minds my hot pink sweat pants, right?

Now I’m debating possibilities for this afternoon. Finally make ornaments for the Christmas tree? Finally do more laundry so I have other pants, besides the sweat pants? Finally clean the kitchen (again)? Tackle the ketchcup mess on Evan’s carpet? (I hope you’re friends with me on Facebook and you saw the picture. Yep, it was gruesome.)

I do feel obligated to be productive, since this is the chance I’ve been waiting for – no kids, plenty of sleep, lots of time to get things done.

Many thanks to my in-laws for making this day so lovely and beautiful!

Nearly

I was doing such a good job posting every day – but things got hectic! We got the appraisal report last week (excellent news) and heard back from the underwriters today that everything is good to go. That means we’ll go sign papers and hand over a lot of money on Thursday, and by Friday evening –

we’ll have the keys to OUR NEW HOUSE!

Just thought I’d share.

Oh, and we’re thinking of not having internet when we move. We’ll live across the street from the library, so I’ll still have access and try to blog at least weekly, but I think it may be good for us to limit our gadget usage. And the kids’ Netflix consumption.