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the plague

 This week I will not be winning any blogging awards, motherhood/superwoman awards, most loving wife awards, sanitize house/laundry washing awards...

but I have survived until Thursday which for this week equals SUCCESS (yes, in all caps)

As per my last post that undoubtedly made very little sense as it was typed after very little sleep and posted with very little proofreading as the next crisis was arising...

sickness has descended upon our family.

well, not the whole family. Just Addison (in a BIG way) and Aaron.

Add in a Carter, who is needy even when he is well, and you get THREE needy babies people that I love.

So my week has been spent constantly cleaning up Addison...trying to get her to drink SOMETHING and holding her nonstop as she cried every time she was put down (while keeping her away from Carter), feeding/diapering/playing with Carter, delivering jello and ginger ale to the master bedroom and checking to make sure Aaron was still breathing, using the sanitizing mode on my washer more than I ever have, and wiping down EVERYTHING in the house with disinfectant wipes over and over again (steam moping everything!) and constantly washing my hands....praying that Carter and I could avoid the plague. (yet again, a paragraph that makes practically NO SENSE at all...gonna claim the sleep card once again)
so yeah. I hope all of you are staying healthy...we haven't been so lucky ourselves over here.

...just dropping in briefly to explain our absence. Haven't forgotten about any of you (or the need to return emails)...just overwhelmed by slightly more pressing issues at hand.

will hopefully be back up and running by next week (if this doesn't hit me by the weekend!)

hoping for my happy family to be back again soon.

p.s. what are some foods that include a lot of water? Addison is now refusing her bottle as it reminds her of vomiting...will not drink out of a sippy cup...out of a straw...or out of a normal cup. trying to avoid dehydration...
So far I have watermelon and jello on my list