glad it's a new week...

It was a LONG, EXHAUSTING weekend! Friday was Katrina's birthday. I will devote a separate post to that, since who wants their "birthday post" to have rumblings of THROW-UP it it???

ya, that's what I thought! NO ONE...

Just FYI... this is a long, not really interesting to anyone but me, "journal" post - so here is the abridged version: I was running around like crazy all weekend and we have sick people at my house... There you go. Now you can click on your way and skip everything else... you are of course welcome to read on... but if you get bored it is your own fault.)


As a precursor, I will add in here that Thursday night was not a good one for sleeping - Caleb was up and down multiple times and I just didn't get a good nights sleep, so what I am saying, is that I was already pretty sleep deprived before this story begin. so... without further ado -

Friday was crazy busy- driving Bryan to preschool, driving over to AF to pick up Katrina's birthday present, then back to pick up Bryan, then to the store to buy some other birthday items and ingredients for Katrina's requested birthday meal. Then home to drop everything off, then off to pick up the kids from school. (plus two extra boys who needed to come to my house that afternoon while their mom worked. bake Katrina's cake and put the dinner together, then off to drop off the boys and take Aaron to learning technics. home at 5:30, get rest of dinner put together. Finally, sitting down to eat, Trina only picked at her food, and in the back of my mind I wondered why. It tasted fine to me... (I found out why, later that night) I had Bountiful Baskets on Saturday morning and it was my week to be in charge, so at 10:00 I started printing out all the reports and paperwork I would need. I was IN bed ready to crash by 11:00, and was excited that I'd be able to get 7 hours of sleep! It was not meant to be. by 11:30 Katrina was throwing up. she was up and down all night. Caleb also woke up 2 or 3 times, for drinks, tummy hurting, wanting mommy to sleep with him, you name it... it was NOT FUN!
I got up at 6 and finished getting my stuff ready to go. Got to BB (late, I might add) and found that I had not been firing on all cylinders when getting things ready - - I had forgotten several things... but nothing we couldn't handle, thank heavens. Got home from baskets at 10, to find Caleb now throwing up too.

On Friday, a neighbor had given us a turtle, but we needed to get a good home fro him. he was just in a big plastic bin... I found a great deal on an aquarium online, and the guy called back Saturday morning and said we could come get it - right then... so Aaron and I went out and bought a new aquarium, then went to the pet store to buy the special UVB bulb and water filter we needed, then hauled everything back home. We then spent the next hour + setting the tank up. I think it looks cool and Aaron loves it - so that's all good I guess. (Tim is ready to disown me for allowing yet another animal into the menagerie.)

So there I was... 2:30 in the afternoon, house of sick people and messy messy MESS everywhere... No nap for me! I listened to the BYU football game while I cleaned the kitchen. (Total bummer of a game, but I did get my kitchen clean, all the way to mopping the floor... so it's not ALL bad!) By this point in the afternoon, Tim was feeling sick too...

I then went out to rent a carpet cleaner, cause Trina has gotten horribly stinky vomit all over her carpet and the room just REEKED! It was so NASTY! I got her room done (smells MUCH better today, and I'll do an second run tomorrow before I return the machine) and the downstairs family room done. (it is the room where we finally put in the new carpet... and the very next week jasmine peed on it. dumb dog! It will need a second run tomorrow too...) I'm also hoping to do a once over on the carpet in the front room before taking it back... but we'll see how much I can actually get done!

SO - I collapsed into bed last night at 10:30 and was instantly OUT! I don't think anyone woke up during the night. If they did - I slept through it!

Today I had to be at church early to practice with the ward choir as we were singing today, then 3 hours of church (Tim was still not feeling well, so he stayed home with the sick kids) After church it was a quick lunch, then off to choir practice. I ran home, grabbed my music, then drove around to pick up all the kids in my children's choir. (9 of them) no, I didn't have quite that many seat belts... shhhh! don't tell! We practiced at the church so that they were already there at 4:30 when we had a primary training meeting. My sweet little choir sang the opening song. They did "Teacher, Do You Love Me?", with a handful of teachers singing the teachers part. I thought they did a great job and really invited the spirit into the meeting. Then the children went home and I stayed for the rest of the meeting. Home at 4:45, and luckily for me, my friend Holly brought us over some dinner so I wouldn't have to cook. I just feel bad - with so many sick people, only and Aaron and I ate much. I should have just told her not to worry about it and Aaron and I could have eaten leftovers. Oh well - her soup was way more yummy than leftovers!

Now the dishwashers is running, table is wiped off, Aaron's done his learning technic exercises, kids (except Caleb, who is still wandering around) are tucked in bed and I am almost done writing in my "journal... aka blog. Then I am going to BED! Although I did get a pretty good nights sleep last night, I figure two in a row would be sheer bliss!!! so that's what I'm going for.

If you made it this far - thanks for lending an empathetic ear.

Here's hoping the bug quickly passes from our house and we can go back to normal life. (still crazy, but without the BARF!)

Ok - I lied. Apparently all those kids that were tucked in, un-tucked themselves and are still awake. I've now sent them off to bed again - and now I think it is safe to say that this day (and this weekend) is DONE!