Sick sick sick

Here's Anna eating a Pedialyte pop while getting over a bout of bad tummy this week

We haven't been doing too well in the healthy department this week. We've all had colds ever since we traveled over from Okinawa. Maybe we got them from the plane, or just from the change in climate, who knows. But we've all been sniffling and sneezing ever since we got here. We felt like we were finally getting over all our sickness this week, but then new sicknesses hit.

Wednesday Anna got sick and threw up all over everything. She was eventually able to go to bed and seemed to feel mostly better the next day. Thursday we were supposed to have the inspection done on our house and Scott came down with a migraine. He hardly ever gets migraines and we still haven't figured out what triggers them for him (this is only his third ever) but all the same, he was down for the day. At first I thought, what terrible timing, but then I thought, it could be worse. He was already planning to come home from work for the afternoon, so I took the kids up to the house and met our realtor and inspector while Scott was able to get some quiet time at the house to help him rest and get over the migraine. Our realtor (who is great) had already offered to watch the kids while Scott and I walked around with the inspector. I walked around with the inspector, and asked all my questions, while the kids played happily and watched a show on the portable DVD player. It all worked out and Scott was feeling mostly back to normal by the next morning.

Unfortunately, during that night, Matthew woke up vomiting. I think he had caught the stomach thing Anna may have had, but his just went on and on and he couldn't get back to sleep and kept throwing up all night and into the morning. I stayed up to help him, so I was exhausted by the next day. Luckily by Friday night he seemed to be feeling a little better and by Saturday he was his old self again.

Sadly by Saturday night I was starting to feel very nauseous. At first I thought it might be pregnancy related sickness, but now I think I caught the same stomach thing. I spent Saturday night in and out of the bathroom. It was pretty miserable. I felt terrible all day Sunday, but finally started to feel a little normal by Sunday evening. Scott watched the kids all morning on Sunday since I was out of commission. Unfortunately Scott got another bad headache, possibly related to taking care of two busy kids all morning, on Sunday afternoon and he was down for the count again.

We're hoping we all feel better in the morning and can go a little while without any new malaise.