Sickness in the house...

Last week I got really sick with a fever, headache, backache and sideache. I figured I had picked up a bug of some sort. I was really bad Tuesday (couldn't even get off the couch!) but was better Wednesday and Thursday so I figured I was in the clear. Then, Friday morning I woke up with such a high fever, bad backache and sideache that I literally could not move. I called my midwife and she said it sounded like a kidney infection and that I should go to the doctor as soon as possible. Fortunately for me I had taken the kids to my mom's house to spend the weekend on Thursday so I didn't have to worry about what to do with them. And Mark is off on Friday's so he was able to drive me to the doctor's office, which is good because I never would have gotten there by myself. When I got to the doctor's they took my temperature and it was almost 103! It only took them about 2 minutes to determine that I did indeed have a kidney infection. They prescribed some antibiotics which I have been taking faithfully and am finally starting to feel better, except for one thing...the kids and I are all sick with some sort of cold or flu bug! We all have runny noses, dry coughs and gunky eyes (and I lost my voice completely)! Yuck! The only one in our house who is well is Mark. So, he is doing everything around here for now. He has a good attitude and is a great help, I'm so glad he is able to take care of things for me. I have been living on the couch for a week now and probably will continue to be there for a few more days!

Kids Day/ Halloween

Here at our house we don't celebrate halloween but rather celebrate what we call "kid's day". We take the day of halloween and spend it doing things that the kids love, eating foods that they love, etc. This is a tradition that was started by my family when I was a little girl. I think I was about 7 when my parents decided that we would no longer celebrate and they wanted to make it easier for their kids to adjust so they instituted the concept of kid's day. I always loved it when I was growing up, and most of the kids that I knew were jealous of the fact that we spent the day doing things as a family and having a great time together. :-)

So, for our kid's day on Saturday, we started the day by sleeping in a bit, then having a big breakfast of bacon, cinnamon rolls, scrambled eggs and juice. The kids loved it, it is one of their all time favorites, and such a special treat because I bought canned cinnamon rolls which we almost never have. After breakfast the kids picked a movie to watch, bug's life, while I got everything ready for the day. Then we carved pumpkins, got our donut batter started and made apple cider. We played a few games, Elijah is finally old enough to be able to play and enjoy more games so that makes it more fun for us! :-) The kids had a short quiet time while I cooked the donuts. Then we had lunch/dinner of mac n' cheese, apples and donuts (again, stuff we don'thardly ever have and therefore very special) and then went to the airport to watch the planes landing and taking off. (This is one of Mark's favorite things to do and he managed to talk the kids into it for their special day :-) ) We came home and lit our pumpkins and sat in the living room enjoying them and reading books. Then it was bedtime for all the kids. It was a really fun day and the kids had a blast!