Sick

After my birthday, we had many Christmas related things lined to pass the time as we waited for Hannah to arrive. The first of them was a cookie party in the Bunns backyard. Well as luck would have it, the day of the party was the coldest day of the year. We knew it would be chilly but we live in Arizona so we didn't think it would be too bad.

The kids started decorating cookies and I noticed that Kelsey wasn't eating a single thing. She had a plate of cookies in front of her and nothing was going into her mouth? Very weird. I didn't think much of it and kept mingling in the kitchen. Occasionally Kelsey would come in the house and say she was cold or want to be held and I would stand her by the oven or tell her she just needed to run around. Let the record show that I am not proud of these moments. Finally after about 2 hours, Kelsey slowly comes walking into the kitchen where the moms were chatting with huge crocodile tears. "Mom. I'm just so cold. " I felt TERRIBLE! She was shaking all over and her hands were just ice. We gathered up our stuff, wrapped a sobbing Kelsey in blankets,  got the heater running and headed home. All the other moms were so kind to me saying it happens, but I felt so bad. Kelsey tried to tell me but I just wasn't listening. Once we were home, we got Kelsey in a warm bath, put on some nice warm clothes, covered her in blankets and let her watch a show. While she was watching a show, she fell asleep (which has never happened ever) and I knew something was off (yes is took me this long to realize something was off) Well the poor girl had a temperature of 102. She was so sweaty and so shaky and kept saying she was so cold. I just felt terrible.

See! She doesn't look sick!

The rest of the day was dedicated to Kelsey. The one advantage of having Kelsey sick was that I got to spend a lot of time with just Madison and once they were both asleep I got so much done!  It was actually really fun aside from the whole sick child thing.

Madison was not sick. This face was just too much though!

 So one thing I'm not proud of was taking Kelsey to the grocery store. I felt so bad because she was literally shaking and fell asleep in the cart, but we had NOTHING! I mean nothing. No eggs, crackers, cereal, bread, fruit, milk, veggies, nothing. I gave her medicine right before we went and it worked for a bit so she was talking and happy but then it started to wear off. It was just so sad.

Luckily Kelsey is a kid and bounced back in a day or two, but then it hit Madison. She woke up completely fine and slowly by the end of the morning, she was slowing down. She wouldn't cry (which, if you know Madison is VERY weird.)or crawl or walk or anything. Surprise! she too had a 102 temperature and was down for the count. I obviously felt terrible that she was sick, but she was so cuddly that I couldn't help but love it just a little bit. We all just snuggled and cuddled all day long.

Don't let those cute pants fool ya. This was the last time she moved at all before she started acting sick too

So the end of the story is pretty obvious. Kelsey sick Wednesday, Madison sick Thursday, Cami sick Friday. Luckily I didn't get the fever but I was so achy. Its no fun being sick but I'm convinced there is nothing worse than being a sick mom. No one in the house really cares that you don't feel well and  still expects you to be in true form even though you can barely pull up your sweatpants  let a lone flip a quesadilla. Being a sick mom only means that you now have to do your job while sick and achy. AND the worst part is that there are no advantages. None. you don't want to cuddle, you can't sit and watch TV all day and no one brings you hot soup (mostly because no one can reach the soup!!) Also you don't bounce back because you can't rest consequently meaning you stay sick FOREVER!!! It took me like a week to recover where as the girls were up and going in a day. Mom life is hard.  Can I get an AMEN!

Without being too dramatic there were some major blessings with this little round of whatever.
1. No one was messy. Just fevers and aches
2 Ethan never got sick which was HUGE considering it was the busy time at work
3 We all got sick close enough to the weekend that Ethan could help us out over the weekend. The second he walked in the door Friday he pushed me to bed and had the house running like a machine until Monday morning. I didn't do a thing. Bless that man
4We all got sick the week before Christmas
5 Being sick for a few days with Ethan home meant I got a lot of time to just rest and read. I read the whole Selection series and totally loved it.

One of the times I emerged from my room I was this. The girls are in great hands

Its no fun being down, but on of my goals for 2016 is being as positive as Ethan is so in the spirit of resolutions, this does of illness wasn't too bad all things considered.

This video cracks me up. Madison is still a little sick but Kelsey is back to her full strength. Kids are just so stinkin resilient. What is their secret?!