sick

This morning while Tyler was at school, I spent most of the morning in the bathroom with an upset stomach. I managed to pull myself together enough to go pick him up, and then Tyler threw up 3 times on the drive way while bringing in the garbage cans. (When Dallin got home he mentioned that what we had done to the drive way was interesting.) Tyler felt better after that, in fact, asked for some food. I gave him some crackers, and I had a couple, and we managed to keep those down. I had emailed Dallin to let him know that we wouldn't be meeting him at the library, but that I did need him to come home and get the books that needed to be returned. I also called the Elders to cancel our dinner appointment. And I talked to my friend whose kids I'm supposed to watch tomorrow. She mentioned that her youngest was also sick today and couldn't keep anything down. Adeline wanted a snack later so I gave her some carrots. Tyler wanted some too, and since he had kept the crackers down for a couple hours I let him have some -- and myself. After Dallin came home and got the library books and Adeline, I promptly disposed of my carrots -- and felt SO much better! Tyler was doing very well keeping his food down, but he was getting really tired, and kept leaning on me as I was washing dishes. Just after Dallin got home -- with pizzas -- I know he was helping so that I wouldn't have to fix anything, but it just makes my stomach growl from hunger & I'm so bummed because I can't eat it right now -- Tyler disposed of his carrots in the middle of the living room floor. The nice thing about the wood floor is that clean up is pretty quick. The bad thing about the wood floor is that the clean up area is HUGE! And usually this stuff doesn't bother me, but cleaning up after Tyler this evening, I thought I was going to go through it all again myself. Through all the tummy troubles though, I got one load of dishes done, and 4 loads of laundry through the washer & dryer, which will get folded tonight during my prime time down time. I also managed to drive the kids to the train tracks to "find" the train we could hear from our house, and all of us got dressed in clean clothes & Adeline has eaten 2 meals so far. I also took Tyler to school & picked him up from school. I've also done 3 easy crossword puzzles, and finished a book. Ahh...isn't it great being a sick mom? Apparently this is some bug that's been making the rounds. I really hope Adeline has a strong stomach constitution like her father. She's never had the stomach flu before, and I'm not looking forward to going through it with her. I just think it's worse for me when they can't fully communicate about how they feel.