Not on our Summer Bucket List

So, the stomach flu wasn't on our Summer Bucket List. No, really. It wasn't. But, we got it anyway. Ick! L got it Saturday night. We thought it was food poisoning from noodles he ate at a local restaurant. A couple of days went by where nobody in the house was sick and we thought we were out of the woods...until I got sick. And holy moly was I ever sick! At one point Daddy had his hands full because L's symptoms temporarily resurfaced and he and I were both sick at the same time. Our illness didn't overlap too long, then I was the only one who was sick. I honestly think that was the worst case of the stomach flu I've ever had in my entire life. I won't go into the gory details, but I will say that I slept on the bathroom floor for part of the night 'cause it was nice and cool and because I just didn't have it in me to walk back to my bedroom. Poor, Mama! I gradually recovered over the course of the next twenty four hours, then N woke up with it. Fortunately his symptoms occurred during the day, so I was able to take care of him during the day and not through the night. This bug lingered long enough to consume one whole summer week. Boo! But, we did the best we could with it. At the beginning of the week when L was sick (and N was not), N and I made a hopscotch game using painter's tape on the tile floor in the kitchen. We pushed the kitchen table and chairs back and played hopscotch while L rested. We also played Legos and ate popsicles to encourage L to get some sort of liquids in his body. When I was sick and the boys were not we camped out in the basement and played our bowling game that the boys enhanced with a ramp contraption. We also loaded up in the car for a short outing to the drive through to pick up some lunch for the boys. When N was sick and L was well, L wanted to take care of him. It was super sweet, but I was concerned that L was getting into all of N's sick germs. I decided I better distract L, so we took the sensory boxes out to the front porch and played with them while N got some rest. I brought the baby monitor outside with us so N could yell for me if he needed something. L played with our Play-doh for a few hours in the afternoon with both me and Grammy. It's been a long week, but we made the best we could of it and are moving forward! Here's to checking off the things that actually are on our Summer Bucket List!!