More excuses as to why we are MIA on the blog...

So after a fun evening being crafty with Lexi...I was awoken at 2am to the sound of Helene vomiting.

And it all went downhill from there.

I will spare you the details. And while this is also a journal for me to remember...I don't think I could ever forget how terrible the next five days were.

Full of more vomiting, diarrhea, changing clothing, laundry, cleaning, whining, complaining, and yelling than I could have ever thought possible.

So the kids did a lot of this.

I love how he is the one smiling--and he was the absolute worst patient of them all.

Poor poor Helene.
This was a day she was actually feeling better and was over the vomiting and diarrhea. I got her dressed and left the room to get something, came back and she was just lying on the floor.

The older kids were complaining of body aches so I'm sure Helene had them too.
That face is so sad.

Remarkably, NONE of Valerie's kids caught it, nor any of the adults. Although Valerie and I did have a day or two of queasy stomachs, but mentally talked our way out of it by telling ourselves we weren't really sick. I did have one night where I had a slight fever and my entire body ached...but it was apparently nothing 10 hours of sleep couldn't cure.