This, that and a little sickness thrown in

Whew! It's been a week in our home.

I'm sorry for the lack of posts lately, but sickness has wrecked havoc on our family. Last weekend I was in urgent care for a sinus infection, an ear infection and strep throat. I got a prescription for a 5 day cycle of meds. I felt better by Tuesday. But...then came Wednesday night. I was up all night with a fever, chills and the sweats. After another trip back to the doctor on Thursday morning, it was discovered that I still have strep throat and now I had a kidney infection on top of it. Ugh.

Needless to say, I had to get a substitute for Thursday and Friday. My parents were so amazingly helpful!!!! Seriously, you may all think that you have the best parents but I'm sorry to tell you that they just don't (and never will) compare to mine. They brought Abby to school each morning and kept Grace for me so that I could sleep and rest. They even brought over warm food to make sure I was eating. Sleep is really all I wanted to do. And I did a lot of it. In fact, even though I've been on my new meds for 4 days, I'm still so tired and I've been taking naps every afternoon (this is in addition to the 10-12 hours I'm sleeping each night.) Yep, this round of sickness wiped me out.

But the girls seem to be healthy and it's been a daily prayer that the germs will stay away from them. We did have a bout with Abby this weekend. Her tummy was upset on Friday and Saturday, but things have calmed down so it must have been a 24 hour bug.

My girlfriends at work sent me a huge bouquet of flowers to help me feel better. They're so beautiful. There's something about flowers that just make you smile.

Abby had a fun weekend with her Papa and Nana. They took her to the Hope College football game on Saturday afternoon. They had a great time together. Abby met a nice girl there and quickly became friends. She also got a ring pop and a giant pixie stick, which also helped her fun mood. She decided to save the pixie stick until this afternoon. It was so funny watching her eat it. She couldn't finish it. When she was eating it she said, "My brain has a lot of funny-ness in it". Too cute!

We had a great day together as a family. I just love Sundays. It always starts off with church, then family lunch and then just plain family togetherness all afternoon. We painted our nails and toe nails, played Barbies, and drew pictures. My girls are so fun!