Today has been a totally sick day today. I called in sick from being a mommy, from several work-related meetings I had scheduled, and even from cooking anything today. It started a couple of days ago when I had a slight sore throat but thought nothing of it. Will had also been up a ton that night so I didn’t get much rest. So, yesterday, I was totally tired all day but still pushed myself to get stuff done, especially since it was so nice outside. I went outside with the boys and played soccer, enjoyed some water while sitting out on the deck talking with both of them, and then I headed to my meeting up at church after dinner.

I started really feeling like crap by this point. I got home at about 10:30 and said hi to David and then went to the bathroom. I thought since I was feeling crappy that I’d just head on to bed, but Will was crying upstairs and since David was busy on the computer trying to fix his iPhone, he asked me to go up and check on him. I make my way upstairs and find a crying, coughing Will. He was out of bed and I went to scoop him up as he just kept coughing this dry, heaving cough. Well, not even two seconds later he’s vomiting ALL. OVER. All the way down the left side of my sleeve, onto the carpet in he and N8’s room and all over his clothes. It was at that point that I yelled down to David that he needed to come up right away. He proceeded to bathe Will while I picked up the chunks of vomit all over the carpet and changed my shirt. After the bath I got Will dressed and David finished cleaning up the carpet. I was feeling really achey, had chills, and a slight fever by this point so I was just trying to get Will comfortable enough to go back to sleep, so that I could go to bed.

Finally I laid him back in bed and I went to my bed and bundled up to sleep. I woke up this morning feeling even worse and I realized that maybe it has something to do with the fact that for the first time in years, I didn’t get a flu shot this season. I had 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. business meetings scheduled today that I had to cancel, plus I had wanted to take the kids to story time. Instead, I spent most of the day either curled up on the couch or in bed trying to rest.

The other part to this whole ordeal is that we were out of Tylenol, so last night after the whole vomit situation, I really needed to take something to make me feel better. I took some children’s Motrin to help with the fever, etc. Thankfully, today David saved me from more children’s meds and went to the drugstore for this:

I am so grateful he was here today to take the reigns of parenting. I seriously don’t know what I would’ve done without him. The kids did get to watch more TV than I would have liked, but they still had a great day. And I occasionally got the sweet kisses of them coming over to check on me to see if I was okay. Nathan mentioned that he was so sad I was sick and that he wanted me to get better soon. Hopefully, I am on the right track for that because the rest of my week’s just too darn busy for me to be sick!