It's Over

Well, at least I hope it is. It started on Tuesday morning. When we went to get Micaiah out of bed he had thrown up EVERYWHERE. It must have happened sometime during the night since much of it was already dry - a lot of it being in his hair. I washed his hair 3 times but it still smelled - yuck! After throwing up a few more time - on me of course - it seemed to be over. Actually, I'd rather him do it on me rather than the bed or couch or floor. I'm much easier to clean up. Plus, it was just milk. The only thing he wanted to do was nurse. The next couple of days he had a little diarrhea but by Thursday evening, I was starting to relax a little and believe that the rest of us had been spared. Boy was I wrong. Orin decided to throw up Thursday right before bed - this time it wasn't on me but in a pile of toys. I ran out to the grocery store for some crackers, bread, etc.... By 11pm Damien and I were starting to feel a little queasy ourselves. I decided to just eat some crackers for dinner and I'm glad I did. We went to sleep early only to be woken up a couple of hours later. We took turns running to the bathroom - luckily we never overlapped! Damien had it worse than me. I was glad that I had gone to the grocery so we had food to throw at the kids from our bed the next morning. By the time I was able to pull myself out of bed in the late afternoon, the place was a disaster. Food all over the floor. I guess that's what happens when kids have the run of the place! Once the kids went to bed Damien was finally able to sit up some. I went to bed at 11 (very early for me) and Damien slept on the couch - probably good since he hadn't made it to the shower. :-) We're very happy to have woken up this morning mostly back to ourselves. The kids let us sleep in until 9:30! We've disinfected the entire house (which is easy since it's only two rooms) but the laundry will take longer. We were disappointed because we missed the Christmas party for the children's ministry volunteers at church last night. Why does it always seem like we get sick when something special is planned? There is a holiday puppet show/story time at the library this afternoon that we're registered for so it looks like we'll make it to that. We're pretty sure we got the virus from the family we live with who had it last week. Amazingly, this was the first time we've shared an illness. We've been living here almost an year so it's a huge blessing that it hasn't happened until now. We're just praying they don't get it again and we just pass it back and forth. I can't wait to eat!!!