re-entry :: the saga continues

So goodness y'all.

What was it?

A stomach bug? {likely}

Food poisoning? {probably not}

A parasite? {gosh, let's just agree NO}

Whatever the hockey it was, it was ugly.

U

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And whatever ugly thing it was, it settled into me on Monday a mere 15 minutes before I was going to leave to pick up my kids from their one of two days at school because my Gabe decided to puke and run a fever at 8pm the night before so I couldn't go to work at school with them and Jase was too weak to do much of anything and so yeah.

That was a huge run on sentence.

But this bug deserved one.

Cause it was awful.

And today. TODAY is the first day in four days that I've even climbed the stairs to my beloved Mac. Honest. It was killer.

In other news, I ate today! Waahoo. And so far, so good. If you know what I mean.

Gabe is still struggling with a nasty runny nose. A little bit of coughing and bouts of being a pretty irritable 18 month old cutie patootie. He's on his second antibiotic since being home. This one, I'm assuming is pretty potent because it's a $26 generic. Hmmm. Here's hoping this thing is a soon to be killed by generic antibiotic bacteria....OR, is viral and is on it's ever lovin' way OUT! Because sweet boy is just about tired of it. And so are we. But we have effectively paid some bills for Kleenex this week because we are going through boxes of them!

He is sleeping better though. Two days ago, when Jase had a tiny bit of energy, he brought up our crib. And that promptly wore him slap out! He disinfected it from all of its basement yuckiness and assembled it and put it in our room. Because heller, our mattress is too soft. And Gabe was rolling into us {me...since Jase has been in the guest room for days!} and waking up.

Every two hours. 

Like clockwork.

Blast you jet lag. And soft mattress. And bacteria/virus that has invaded our Gabe's head with drainage.

Enter the crib. Kennedy's crib. Circa 2000. The heaven's parted and there were rainbows and unicorns hovering overhead because the first night in that crib....

Gabe only woke once. And took a bottle. And went straight back to sleep!

And all God's people said....Amen.

Then the second night, he slept from 7:30pm until 5am.

So we still have some work to do. But re-entry is looking better.

I'm eating. Gabe is sleeping. Home school work is caught up. And yes, most all is right in our world.

How could it not be?

Just have a looksy at this sleeping face.

And a gander at these sleeping piggies...

Re-entry or not, life is good. God is great.