Lifesavers...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Trish and Shanen. Trish, your chicken noodle soup was super-fantastic. It was just what everyone in this house needed. Shanen, your home-grown salad was fabulous! Thank you both for taking care of my family and me!!!

9

Yep, 9!!!

9 long, disgusting, tedious, tiresome, exhausting, sad, gross, fever-filled, barf-covering, snot-running, sore-throath, coughing, hacking, tears-spilling, liquid diapers over-flowing, crappy, crappy, crappy, sick days. I told my wonderful friend, whom I am going to lunch with tomorrow come hell or high barf... that my children need to be vomiting up their lungs, through their ears, for me to cancel my day with her..... because I really don't like this family right now.


I know that sounds harsh, mean, sad... call it what it is.... I am sick of everyone being sick and tired of everyone being tired. This mom crap is overrated this week and I am praying loudly tonight that the last of the fevers is gone in the morning.... because it came back late tonight and I just wanted to cry. There has been no winning with this virus that has attacked my poor beautiful children and it is really affecting all of us.. Well not so much Daddy... but he has those darn SWAT earplugs and leaves for work when the going gets tough.


So for anyone that sees me daily... I am seriously apologizing for anything mean or nasty or rude I have said in the last couple of days... I seriously couldn't tell you what I have eaten, who I have talked with or what I may have said to you, what the date is or if I made promises to anyone in the past week about somehting that may be coming up in the future.


I even went as far as to pick up Brinkley from school yesterday...

AT THE WRONG TIME!

Can you say BRAIN OVERLOAD?

STILL GOING..

YES, THAT IS RIGHT... THE SICKNESS IS STILL GOING STRONG. NOW IT IS DOWN TO JAXI. JAXI AND HIS 102.7 FEVER. MAYBE TOMORROW WILL BE A BETTER DAY! (IT CAN'T GET ANY WORSE THAN IT HAS BEEN!! YES, I KNOW... I JUST JINXED MY LIFE BY SAYING THAT!!)

THE COST~

OUR WEEK OF SICK FAMILY MEMBERS IS STILL NOT OVER. BY LATE LAST NIGHT, ALL FIVE OF US WERE NOT FEELING WELL IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. BRINKLEY HAD COME HOME EARLY FROM SCHOOL AND BY 8 PM JAXI WAS VOMITING WITH HUGE TEARS ROLLING DOWN HIS FACE, BEGGING FOR ME TO HELP HIM.

THIS MORNING FINALLY BROUGHT ON A LITTLE RELIEF. THAT WAS WHEN I WALKED INTO MY LAUNDRY ROOM AND NEARLY FAINTED. THIS IS WHAT 5 FULL DAYS OF A SICKLY FEELING FAMILY OF 5 HAS LEFT ME WITH OR WITHOUT, DEPENDING ON HOW I LOOK AT IT!!!!

27 HUGE AND VERY DIRTY SWIMMING TOWELS THAT CAUGHT ALL KINDS OF FLUIDS

72 SIZE 6 DIAPERS... HE IS 2 AND POTTY TRAINING... THAT IS ALMOST 15 A DAY.. NO WONDER HE IS RAW!!!

A TOTAL OF 10 POUNDS LOST BETWEEN ME, JAXI AND PUDGIE

3 EMPTY GALLON BOTTLES OF BLEACH

6 LYSOL CANS

A GRAND TOTAL OF 17 HOURS OF SLEEP IN THESE 5 DAYS FOR ME

17 LOADS OF LAUNDRY TO CATCH UP ON NOW

4 BATHROOMS THAT NEED SERIOUS DISENFECTING AGAIN

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE... EVERYONE EXCEPT TOMMY WOKE UP SMILING AND IN GOOD MOODS TODAY. POOR DADDY HAD TO GOTO DEFENSIVE TACTICS TODAY AND WAS JUST A MISERABLE MESS!

Sick Day

Jax has his 2nd grade music concert tonight. Of course, today, he has a sore throat and cough. I knew he was not faking this morning when he cried as I told him that he would not be able to goto the concert tonight if he stayed home from school. I was just testing him anyway..... I am sure it is allergies since there is no fever.

We spent the day hanging out together except for when I ran to the store with Pudgie man. Jaxi is the one I can trust to lay on the couch and do nothing. (Don't panic, Daddy was home).

After I put the little man down for his nap, we just hung out and watched a movie that is probably not the most suitable for an 8 year old, but we both loved it and I love explaining how important school is if you want to be like daddy or if you want to repel off the helicopter like the FBI agent in the movie we were watching. Jax loves school so even if there was a little bit of faking going on today... I am good with that.....because he is such a good boy!