i’m pulling myself out of a cloud of lysol for a quick post. 

what started out as a great week last week…going back to the 19th….ended up as the beginning of an 8 day full out attack on my family. 

mark’s birthday was last monday. i was rather proud of myself for having gifts wrapped and ready by saturday. pat on the back for me. monday the spurs were playing so we had plans to have dinner at some friends to celebrate and then watch the game over there.  mark came home a little early from work, we did presents and started packing up to head out. as we were walking out the door brooklyn begins to vomit….EVERYWHERE.

change of plans.

mark headed to our friends’ w/ the boys to celebrate alone and i got brooklyn squared away in a shower and jammies and began the task that every mother loves …. vomit cleanup. i’ll spare you the ugly details however, I will say in the midst of it I broke my mop and then had to get on my hands and knees and scrub the floors by hand. always a great time.

i spent the next 6 hours holding brooklyn’s hair back and catching glimpses of the game from the bathroom. brooklyn felt awful and was crying at one point, apologizing for missing daddy’s birthday and vomitting on the floor.  i felt so awful for her. i reassured her we would celebrate with daddy the next night when she was feeling better.

and she was. and we did. i cooked some killer steaks and shrimp and we enjoyed tuesday evening ….sans vomit. and she headed back to school on wednesday.

wednesday evening hudson began complaining that his throat hurt. like any good mother i took a look, told him it was irritated by a popcorn kernal and called it a day. that night he woke up screaming and writhing in pain. his throat looked awful. upon our trip to the dr. on thursday we were told his tonsils were so swollen he would have to get a shot of penicillin because they didn’t think he’d even be able to swallow the antibiotics orally. ugh! it was a nightmare. i bribed him with a new xbox 360 game but even that didn’t help. i sat there and watched him lay pathetically on the table spitting in the trashcan because it hurt too much for him to swallow.  another great day. he missed school thursday and friday.

saturday we had plans to go w/ friends to the Blanco State Park. We spent the morning packing our picnic lunch and loading half of Parker’s belongings into the car. you never know what a 14 month old might need at the river. everyone was feeling great. happy. healthy. enjoying the day. it was a perfect day. parker was so well behaved at the river. i was so nervous about taking him but he did super. the kids loved it. we had a great time.

sunday.

i get up early to do an engagment session. knock it out. get home and we decided to take the older two kids to the witte museum. we made arrangements for a sitter for parker and got ready to head out. 30 minutes before the sitter was going to be here. parker started vomitting.

change of plans.

mark takes the older two out to the witte and i stayed home cleaning up baby vomit. which by the way isn’t nearly as bad as 7 year old vomit. oh, and in between i watched when a man loves a woman and cried uncontrollably.

it was a great day.

memorial day!

woohoo! we’re all happy and healthy again.

we decide to bbq with some friends. things are going along perfectly. (you know where this is going don’t you?)

mark was next on the list. our dinner was cut a little short and mark headed to bed early to sleep it off.

and finally…..i woke up this a.m. around 5:30….and I was next. exactly how i wanted to start my week. mark got the kids up and off to school and parker headed to the neighbors. i spent the next 7 hours waiting for it to be over and praying costco sold Lysol in bulk.

it’s done and over. i hope and pray this misses hudson. he’s the last on the list. but i’m hoping w/ that shot of penicillin he had for strep it might help him out a bit. we shall see. it’s a quick little virus. only lasting around 6 hours or so. i guess that’s the silver lining?

so now i hope to begin my week tomorrow. vomit free. and high on Lysol.