Last week all three boys and my husband dropped like flies from the stomach bug on Monday morning.  Thankfully, David wasn’t hit as hard and was able to help considerably with caring for them.  I’ll spare you the gory details but let’s just say it was brutal.  They were all out from school for the entire week and William didn’t bounce back until Sunday.  Thank God I stayed on my feet until Friday when the worst was behind us and had the weekend to recover.  I crashed hard Friday morning, felt a lot better Saturday but then Sunday felt terrible again so it was a bit of a roller coaster.  But am now back on my feet completely and feeling much better 🙂

Oddly, everyone getting sick and having to go into caretaker mode reset my mood a bit and I’ve been able to muster the energy to get more prepared for the baby.  I am packing my hospital bag next week and really hoping that I can make it until the end of February when my dad gets here.  Either way, it won’t be much longer!  I have been listening to my birth meditation tapes (yay for sticking to the goal this month!) every night in preparation for the big day.  I swore after my last delivery that I would never again have another natural childbirth but I’m trying to be prepared for anything.  I usually just go with the flow and if I decide I want to get an epidural then wonderful, if not, then hopefully these meditations will help me through it.  I don’t make up my mind about getting an epidural until the last minute anyway and go through the vast majority of labor without it so these tapes will hopefully help me through the bulk of the process whether I decide to get one or not.

Once a month William’s school hosts a Parent’s Night Out from 6-10pm and it is pure bliss.  We drop the kids off at 6pm and the school feeds them, entertains them and gets them all in their PJs and ready for when we pick them back up at 10pm.  They take all three boys and will take the baby too when he’s about 8 weeks.  It’s our lifeline to having date nights, which David and I desperately need with how hard he works and how demanding having multiple children is on both of us.  Having time to reconnect without the kids is imperative for any relationship but it has been especially true for the two of us.  We look forward to it every month ❤