The Daily Hailey

I will warn you in advance. This will be a short, boring post about a boring, uneventful day.

I felt awful this morning, while Brady wasn’t feeling as bad as the last few days. Therefore, he offered to get the kids breakfast and let me sleep. I woke up at 11:00am, which is insane, I know. I ventured out into the house to find Brady watching Paw Patrol with Dekker and Laela. And I say “watching” loosely, because he was absolutely sleeping. He woke up after a while, and told me that Rowan hardly ate, and went back down to bed at 10:00am. The other kids were awake, but seemed pretty zombie-ish. I got them lunch and once they were done, we put them down as well. It was around noon.

After Brady and I consumed our classy lunch of toast, it was clear that Brady needed to nap. He napped solidly for a good couple of hours, but around 2:00pm, I started to feel feverish, and decided to lay down myself. Brady woke up feeling somewhat better at 2:30, and got up to shower and refresh. I slept and fevered and slept and fevered and felt really really crappy. Brady convinced me to take Tylenol, and I was feeling capable of standing about a half hour later.

We got the kids up around 4:00, so very late in the afternoon. Rowan was just waking up, Dekker was awake, and Laela was still out cold. They were all fevering around 101F. We gave them medicine and took them to the living room for snuggles, but it was a vicious cycle, like the last three weeks have been. One would whimper and they would all start crying. Rowan was rubbing his eyes, Laela was just so very hot, and Dekker was complaining of being itchy and sick. Pretty sure I can safely say that Brady and I both felt like crying too.

After a classy supper of – you guessed it- toast, we watched an episode of Paw Patrol and put them to bed. Heres hoping they sleep through the night!

I won’t lie. Brady is typing this for me as I dictate from the bed. I’m dizzy and nauseous every time I sit up, and today is the first day where my body has decided I can no longer lay on my back, as my growing belly crushed my insides.  Please pray for comfort and healing and rest for all six of us.