An exhausting week!

I'm sticking with my commitment to post every Thursday, but this one is going to be short and sweet because frankly, I'm tired. This has been a week of little sleep due to some sicknesses at home. On Sunday afternoon Olivia, my daughter, began to complain of a pretty serious stomach ache and threw up shortly after. And the thing about Olivia and getting sick is that she does it on a very set schedule. Sunday's schedule was every 30 minutes for all of the afternoon. It wasn't until the evening that her episodes became more sporadic, and I thought we might be in the clear for a somewhat decent night sleep when it was finally time to get to bed. But alas, 'twas not so...2:00 am rolled around and she was waking me up with the message of more stomach aches and a mess. So, that led to no more sleep until I was able to take a nap around 1:00 pm Monday afternoon (if you haven't guessed already, I stayed home from school to take care of her). We follow the 24-hour rule of no school when vomiting, so by Tuesday she was ready to go back to school...but that wasn't without waking me up in the middle of the night again with complaints of those pesky stomach pains (luckily no messes to clean, though). Since then she has pretty much been in the clear.
That doesn't mean the sickness has left our house, though, as Erin, my wife, caught what Olivia had. Wednesday night began Erin's turn of getting sick (but not nearly as messy). I am incredibly hopeful that Erin's bout with this will the same day or so that Olivia's lasted, so hopefully today was that day and tomorrow will be (kind of) back to normal. The ultimate test will be to see if this illness makes it all the way through our family...I'm really hoping it doesn't.
So, with no further ado, I'm going to get to bed and try to give my immune system the rest it needs!

Mindfulness thought for the week: It's okay to not know where you are going if you are good with where you are.  --Tom J Deters

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