Crazy Couple of Weeks

I have failed miserably in writing for the past couple of weeks. We've fallen in line with other families and have just been keeping busy despite one of us being sick at almost all times! Dave's been working a lot but we did manage to find three consecutive days last week to drive to Leland to visit Dave's grandmother and pick up his grandfather's truck. We are very blessed to have received the gift of this truck after his grandfather passed away in January. It's basically brand new and is huge...so of course Jack loves it! It has a back seat so we can travel as a family in it and it just makes it in the garage. Phew!

It was great to visit with Mama and Aunt Pat/Uncle Buck. They're a fun group and we had a great time. Even Reggie enjoyed his visit with his first ever jump into a lake while chasing some geese!

Fall T-Ball!

Well, it's officially Fall as the Fall T-ball season has started for Jack. He really loves it and corrects me if I ever call it baseball..."No, Mommy. It's not baseball, it's t-ball."



We're going to miss this week's practice and game as we're headed to Mississippi to see Dave's Grandma but we'll bring his mitt and ball so that we can still have a catch.

Our weekend was packed and I'm still on the road to recovery. I did too much last week and was exhausted on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I finally found my appetite yesterday afternoon and am trying not to go overboard! Jack has been camping out in our room for the last two nights and pathetically, I was in bed at the same time as the munchkin - 8:30pm. And to make it even more pathetic, I was happy about it! I hadn't slept well in days and was so happy to get a great night's rest.

Recovery

Well, on Saturday morning...really early Saturday morning around 3am...I decided to follow Jack's lead from the previous weekend and experience the stomach virus. Of course it hit me much worse than it did him and I was down 'n out for 3 straight days. At first we thought it was food poisoning because it was so violent (anyone remember the scene from Fever Pitch?) but since I had a fever and the accompanying aches and shakes we decided it was a virus. I never want to lose 4 pounds that way again. I was miserable!

I finally got out of the house for a couple of hours on Tuesday when I took Jack and his buddy Garrett to t-ball practice. I then had a full day today with a preschool parent board meeting, a ministry leadership training session, taking Jack to and from school and then hitting Willy's for dinner...I'm not able to cook yet. It's 6:55pm and I am exhausted. It's funny how getting older makes recovering from an illness just that much more difficult.

Dave was a good caretaker although he would toss things to me from our bedroom doorframe so that he wouldn't get near the germs unless absolutely necessary. Jack was fortunately at my Mom's house when it started so he got to spend two nights with Nonna and Grandpa and then an afternoon with Grandma and Pa so that I could recuperate in peace.

Thanks for listening...I'm going to see if I can get Jack to go to sleep now. Hahaha.

Swine Flu....sorry H1N1 Flu

Okay, the swine flu epidemic is crazy. The first cases have hit Jack's preschool (as they are hitting all schools) and as a result Jack's class had only 5 of 15 kids in attendance yesterday. Only a couple are sick and a couple are on vacation - the rest just pulled their kids out of class for safety. I can absolutely understand their concern, especially as many of them have newborns at home.

But the question is, what to do? Do we sign up for the vaccine study at his pediatrician's office or not? That would ensure him getting the vaccine but it also involves weekly blood draws (could be very traumatic for Jack). Is it a trustworthy vaccine? Do we just get the regular flu vaccine?

Also, I'm checking on him several times a night to make sure he doesn't develop a fever while he sleeps. Thus, I'm not sleeping well and am a little cranky (Dave would say very cranky!).

The good news is that they're having fun with a small class at school - they played Bingo yesterday and Jack thought it was awesome. I need to find him a bingo game that we can play at home! I'm sure there are some online...I'm off to search!

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

As Jack gets older, it seems as if Daddy is the source for most of the fun activities such as swimming, riding bikes, mowing the lawn, watching Penguins of Madagascar, etc. But one thing Daddy doesn't do is bake so I'm glad that Jack likes to help out in the kitchen.

We made some oatmeal raisin cookies and he's learning to master the cookie dough scoop. He did a pretty good job. I only needed to move a few of them around for spacing purposes.

I'm looking at a homemade granola bar recipe now - I wonder if he'll even try one!