All The Monkeys Are Sick!

So, we have this bizarre evil virus going around - it has taken about a week to work through all the kids now. Monkey5 [baby] started with it last week with a high fever, puking, and just feeling miserable. A couple of days later Monkey3 got it, and she was just so pitiful. Then two days ago Monkey2 got it, and he was so sick and in so much pain he could barely move [apparently it causes a severe body ache and head ache too]. Then yesterday Monkey4 and Monkey1 finally caught it, and they were burning up all night. It seems to only last about 24-36 hours though, so I'm hopeful that we are finally "done" with it!

So, last night was a huge nightmare. ALL the kids were up, except Monkey2 who was feeling better and slept like a rock. Finally around 5am I dozed off for the first time all night, and Monkey1 was downstairs watching TV. [I had run out of children's motrin and had *nothing* I could give her for the pain and she was hurting so much she couldn't sleep and could barely move! Poor thing - I felt so terrible that I let us run out of motrin!] Around 5:30 she comes and wakes me up and says "Mommy, Daddy's on the phone". [And I'm thinking "Are you kidding me?! I *finally* got to sleep and now I've got to wake up and take a phone call?!!!!]

Well, it turns out that Monkey1 *called him* at 5:30am and told him how sick she was and that she wanted him to come. And, in a bizarre fit of kindness and compassion, he *did it*! He got here around 7am, brought breakfast AND motrin, and let me go back to bed for 2 hours while he watched the kids. Wow. And he washed my van.

I was stunned, but extremely grateful. He had to leave at lunch and go to work, but I got an actual real stretch of sleep, and I could function through the day - which I don't think I could have done otherwise.

It turned out to be a pretty good day. By late morning Monkey4's fever was gone and by evening so was Monkey1's. I am hopeful they will sleep tonight.

We had a nice day just being low key at home and goofing off. It was one of those days where I just really enjoyed the kids and felt so grateful for all that we have.




Here is my poor, sick Monkey1 holding the baby today.



We had an attack of the Sillys this evening, and this is Monkey3 being a cutie with yogurt on her nose. LOL!



Here is Monkey4 eating her yogurt. This was just AFTER she had climbed up onto the kitchen counter to get a cup for herself and then accidentally peed all over the counter [she'd removed her pull up - and her clothes - long hence] and just BEFORE she smeared all that yogurt all over the table and pushed mommy over the edge. ;) [But I was too busy cloroxing the counter tops to kill her, so I guess it worked in her best interest after all LOL!]



This pic is from a couple of days ago, but I liked it anyway. Here is "The Boy" eating Doritos and holding the baby. Aren't they cute?!

Yeah...those Doritos are something their dad bought when he lived here - they found them and started eating them. I firmly refuse to buy them - anything that dyes your lips and hands that color can't be good. ;)



And here is "The Boy" being silly tonight. The Boy is fixated on Nintendo DSs at the moment and won't talk about anything else. Guess what is at the top of his Christmas Wish list?!



And here is me with the baby and the The Boy. We had such a nice day, sick and all!

Speaking of Christmas though, I did get some "good news / bad news" today - I just got an email from work saying my weekend class [Fri/Sat] is cancelled for this weekend. That is good news in that I was scheduled for 30 hours in 3 days and now I only have to do the Sunday class. It is bad news in that I just lost $400 pay! Which was earmarked for Christmas... ARGH!

But, no worries. God is taking such good care of us - even though we've had a drastic reduction in our household income since my husband left, all the bills are paid and things are miraculously working out. [Think Loaves and Fishes here y'all, I'm telling you it is the hand of God! LOL!] I am certain Christmas will work out too.

Thank God for sweet days like today.