Sick weekend, bday plans, dirty house

As I predicted, I wound up catching that nasty stomach bug (thanks irresponsible jerks who bring sick kids to the baby sitters)!  My weekend was pretty miserable. We had the yardsale on Saturday, and wound up selling A TON of stuff.  After the yard sale was over, I felt like I hit a wall, and had NO energy.  That night I was so freaking sick.  After I finally emptied the contents of my stomach, I thought I was going to feel better, but no such luck.  Sunday was complete misery.  From being nauseous, headache, body aches, fever and no energy, I pretty much spent the entire day sleeping on and off in the recliner.  It really sucked.  I am still nauseous today, but at least I have most of my energy back.  Ethan wound up sick early Sunday morning, but recovered quickly.  Jamie and Owen seem to have escaped it thus far.

Had my yearly gyno appointment today.  Those are always fun.  The wait wasn’t too bad this time. I was in and out in about an hour.  They are known for having you wait for hours before being seen.  She prescribed me a new birth control pill.  I’m hoping that I like it.  I’m thinking of stopping birth control all together.  I hate pumping myself full of hormones.  Eh, whatever. We’ll see. Oh yeah, according to the drs notes, I am over 20 lbs lighter since I was there last.  I was thinking it was a little bit more than that, but I’m still happy that I weigh that much less than I did.  I can’t wait to keep losing!

This morning I reserved the Gazebo at the town park near the university for Ethan’s birthday for a Saturday in June.  Now, lets hope it doesn’t rain on the day of the party, and that a few people actually show up. I think I’ll do a Mickey mouse theme, and I’ll buy a bunch of water guns and bubble toys for the kids to play with.  There is a playground and horseshoes on site as well.  I just want something low key and fun, with not too much stress.

 After that, I took Ethan to the mall.  I let him play in the arcade for a while and then we had lunch.  He was pretty well behaved most of the time we were out.  It’s crazy the difference in my kids behaviors when we are all out together versus, just having one kid with you.  They are a handful when they are together. They do love the one on one attention, and Jamie and I need to make more time to spend with each kid separately.

My house is still in shambles from when I was sick.  It feels like I am never going to regain order!  Jamie picked up some while I was sick, but it isn’t the same when mom is out of commission.  There is just stuff scattered everywhere, and I can’t seem to keep up with the messes the kids keep making.  Hopefully I can get them into bed early tonight and get everything picked up.  I definitely do not want to go on vacation and leave a dirty house.  Coming home to a dirty house is not fun.  Coming home to a clean house is refreshing!  It makes you really appreciate your home.  We are leaving for the beach in a few days.  I need to make sure we have everything we need, and get started on packing.  We have a birthday party Friday night to go to, and another on Saturday, so we are going to be pretty busy at the end of the week.  Plus we have to find time in there to take the dog to my friend’s house, who is dog sitting.