What a week!!

We went down to Southern Alberta last weekend.  Left on Friday.  Thursday night, of course, was greeted by Saryn throwing up.  This always seems to happen right before any trip.  Someone has to get sick.
We were staying with my cousin Caylee, so I called to see if she'd be okay with us still coming.  She said it was fine, and Saryn said she was feeilng better, so we headed on down.  That whole night, and the next day, we were all fine.  We went to visit some friends in Barnwell, went over to Taber, went to Stirling and watched their school play, 'Willy Wonka'.  That night, we were staying with Sachie and Josh, when Jaymeson started to feel a little sick (around 1am on Sunday morning - Mother's Day). 
We moved into the house, from the trailer, and settled down so that we could be closer to the bathroom.  Sure enough, around 3, he threw up.  Around 5, he threw up again... and by 6:30, we needed to be up for the day, so that we could make it back to Barnwell for church.
As we were heading back to Calgary after church, we couldn't leave Jaymeson in Stirling.  We were trying to figure out what to do and we had decided to do Sacrament Meeting and then maybe just have me and the rest of the kids stay in church for the rest of the time.
By the time we got there, Jaymeson had thrown up again.  By the end of sacrament meeting, Saryn was complaining that her stomach hurt again, and Lanaya had blown out of her diaper onto my lap.  We decided to just head home.  Good decision....  We had barely made it to Lethbridge when Benson started to throw up as well.  Happy Mother's Day to me!!

Monday night, Jarett and Kaia both joined in.  They were throwing up all night long.
Tuesday night, Kienna and Lanaya joined in as well.  This bug had taken down everyone in the house except for me at this point.  Kienna missed a school field trip and a cello recital.  Kaia missed a test at school...  There have been upset stomachs on all fronts, nasty smells and much cleaning.

(This is probably 5 out of 10 loads of laundry that I did that day - the boys were clearly feeling better and joining in the "help")

I have LOVED, however, having so much down time for the kids.  They watched the entire Star Wars series 2 times (Episode 2 became a favorite - and they claim they have it memorized now).  We finished up the Lord of the Rings series, watched many shows on Netflix and had just fun talking time (in between episodes of being sick).  The girls watched Roman Holiday, with and without commentary - and the boys just stayed and watched both times.  Not really a normal 4&6 year old boy thing to be doing.  They really were so sick.  The kids have been finishing up books as well.
Lanaya being sick has probably been the hardest to watch because she seems to be in so much pain, but can't tell us where or how.  She's been so sad, but it seems like she's interested in eating and drinking milk again.  So here's hoping.
The only good part, as all mother's know, to all this, it the snuggles!  It's been so sweet to see the kids snuggling, and to get a great deal of snuggles by myself!

So glad this week is wrapping up and we can get back to things as usual around here, but I'm also going to enjoy the memories of the snuggling... and I'm sure the kids will never forget their Star Wars marathon.

I also got to go to the temple in the middle of the week while Jarett held down the fort.  Slower weeks make life simpler - and easier to get back to priorities.