Anniversary trip gone wrong

The weekend of our anniversary we were supposed to go to the beach for three days.  But, Elna got the worst stomach flu.  It was seriously awful!  She threw up about 20 times in a 24 hour period.  Just about every hour all night long and all the next day she threw up.  She was miserable!  So, we canceled our trip and stayed home with our three little darlings!  The only good thing about it all was that Brian was home to help with everything.  Such a blessing!

Once Elna was feeling better, we had to get out of the house, so one of the days we went to their favorite park.

Then we headed out to do some shopping and grab some food to eat for dinner.

On the way there, Georgia started acting kind of funny, and then was doing this with her hand over her mouth a lot.  Finally she fell asleep like this.  I wondered if she was sick.  When Brian got her out of the car at Target she just started throwing up—luckily we were out of the car, so Brian just held her out in front of him so that she threw up in the parking lot.  Ugh.  Another one bites the dust!  Poor baby.  Instead of all of us going in, I just ran in with the older girls to grab a few things.  On the way out I grabbed some icees, thinking that they might feel good on sick tummies.

Dinner out was no longer an option, so we headed home for another night in.

The next day Brian had to go back to work and I did a lot of this.

And lots of laundry!  Georgia hasn’t really gotten the throw-up bucket thing down.

She would just bury her head in my lap and sleep for hours.

Or she would lay on me awake.  I really couldn’t complain.  Until I also got it!  Stomach flu on top of 24/7 morning sickness wasn’t something I’d like to experience again.

Bless Jillian!  She dropped by one for each of us sickies—on her birthday!!!  I should have been doing something fun for her, and instead she was serving me.  It was very humbling for me.  I am so blessed!

After all of the sickness had passed through, Brian and I finally did a little celebrating.  We went out to dinner and got pedicures.  Best husband, right?  I have the best guy and I know it!  He’s perfect and I love him!  There’s no one I’d rather spend sick days with!