I had it too. Yesterday.

Yesterday, all of the puke caught up with me. And I too puked. Just one, and really awful. Today, I am feeling on the mend.

Please puke. Please stop. I cannot have any more sickness around here.

Spoke too soon.

And then, my big boy called me from school today. He said his tummy was not feeling good. So, I picked him up, and the two others a bit early. And yes, he did throw up. Poor guy. That is a second go-round for him too.

Now, that is all six that have had it. Be gone tummy bug. BE gone!

Shook me all night long...

Well, now with Claire and Courtney now sick, that means all six of the kids have had this. Since before Christmas to now. Not a good way to end last year, and not a great way to start the year off.

The laundry has been chugging all night long. I cannot sleep. I just hope and pray Cliff and I stay healthy.

I am supposed to run tomorrow. I had dreams of going to bed early. Here it is 1:12 in the morning. I somehow think I will be rather sleep deprived again.

I hope they both feel better tomorrow. And, hopefully we can catch up on the insane amounts of laundry.

Wowser.

And two more

Well, Claire got sick tonight, and then poor Courtney. Her very first time throwing up.

I feel so bad for them both. This will be all of us now, except for Cliff. He hardly pukes! How does he do it?!

I sure hope I don't get it. Especially because I kissed them all good night, and well, Courtney puts her fingers in my mouth.

Thursday

Well, I thought Caroline was getting better, but she drank water this morning. And well, you can guess. She got sick again. Poor little girl. I hope today she starts feeling better.

This morning. there was a Michael Jackson marathon on Much, and the kids were listening and enjoying. Reminds me of when I was little! I LOVED his music. Still do actually. I have many of his songs in my ipod.

Well, the sun is out and we are off to school. I was hoping to walk #500in2010. But Caroline isn't up for a walk, so I guess we drive again. I will try for a run tomorrow evening.

I got to bed before 1:00 a.m. last night, and stayed in bed until 7:25 and I feel like a new woman. Seriously, I was getting a bit sleep deprived after the night before.

So, off to school we go!

Yesterday...

Yesterday was one of my most awful days I would have to say. I bet if I looked back at my blog, I would find many other posts like that.

It was just a bad day. I don't think I would have won Mother of the Year award.

Now, we have more puke. Caroline this time. Needless to say, I am exhausted today. I have zero energy.

I am just thankful the sun is out, and it is a brand new day. I am hoping we are at the tail end of puke. So far since Christmas, it was me feeling brutal, Cameron, Carly. Catie, then Catie last week again. And now Caroline. Poor bubs.

Just Ducky

Sickness is one part of having a large family that I DO NOT enjoy. From last Saturday at 9 pm until yesterday morning we had July 2008 Puke Fest. Non stop puke and runs action. Cliff actually added up all of the throw up-ing sessions and there were about 16 of them. ONLY TWO (plus Cliff's throwing up} that actually made it into a toilet or puke bucket. The rest...on the floor, the carpet, the walls, around the area of the toilet, the sink. The bed, the bed, the playpen two cribs. The stuffies. The clothing etc.

Oh the laundry. I had our machines working OT!

The good news is that it is Friday. Everrybody is on the mend including myself. Courtney and I were the last to get it. Thankfully I managed not to throw up, but I am having other issues :D to yuck to type out LOL.

The weekend is almost here, and I am hoping we will now be able to enjoy it!

It still isn't over yet

Here we are in the wee small hours of Wednesday. The first sign of puke was at 9 pm on Saturday night, and here we are at Wednesday morning. My machines are seriously working overtime. I am running out of cleaning supplies, and perhaps my patience level. I feel like this is some huge joke being played on Cliff and I.

Finally, we get a late dinner in. Cliff is starting to feel better, but he has a headache. I seriously switch over another load of laundry into the dryer (this is Claire's bedding from tonight as she didn't make it into the bucket or the towels all over her bed...) I had Cliff walking down to the sink in the laundry room with another set of bedding covered in throw up. That would be Caroline's bedding. She needed a complete change of bedding AGAIN from yesterday. And she needed a bath.

And I spoke too soon about throw up on the carpet. Of course our dear Carly threw up pink chunks all over the white carpet. But, I bought a great carpet cleaner that worked so well we cannot even see where it happened! It is called 'Oxy Clean - Carpet' and we are very impressed with it.

My poor family. And now we have Claire worried about everybody being sick, and worried that all of us are dying. Like Grandpa did. Carly needed us to shut her window and she got out of bed and came to us and asked us to lock the window as she thought she heard wolves (but they were dogs) and they scared her awake. Catie asked her Nonna if she is healthy...they are all processing their grief of their momentus loss of their Grandpa.

Oh, and Cameron when he woke up from his sleep after getting sick (he threw up this afternoon on their walk to get ingredients for dinner...) he thought he was waking up to a brand new day. I thanked him for not throwing up in the house, and he smiled! LOL.

I am getting exhausted and wonder what the rest of the night will bring. I am thinking the puke is maybe part of the grieving process?! Not being able to tell us what is wrong and their bodies just acting out...poor babies. Poor Cliff.

It is a good thing I bought myself pretty pink rubber gloves a few weeks back! They sure are getting some good use.

I cannot believe it is another late night of cleaning up. I cannot believe how much cleaning I have done, and laundry I have done lately.

I have to go fold some more laundry now.

I spoke too soon

Cameron has now joined in on the fun, but he was very thoughtful and puked on a walk home with his Dad from the store. No clean up.

Now, we are working on 'fun' from the other end of several bodies around here.

That leaves Courtney and me. I won't get it will I!!!??

Puke fest is OVER!

Hurraahhhhhhhh!

Cliff ended up sick, and is feeling a lot better today. I think we are on the mend because everybody is on the move and eating etc. Things seem WAY better than the 50 + hours of 'Puke Fest II' July 2008.

Anyways, as asked by my cousin Andrea regarding our 'Puke Kit' (April, did you end up doing this too?!--She experienced her first puke with Abby in the car not too too long ago)

Car Puke Kit (left in the back of vehicle for puke emergencies on the road!)

1. Plastic bags use to scoop puke/or puke into/and to pack up the soiled clothing etc.
2. Paper towel
3. Some sort of disenfecting wipes for hard surfaces/you/child/children
4. scraper of some sort (if you don't want to use a bag on your hands!!)
5. bucket for the ride home for sicko
6. old towels and face cloths
7. Bottles of water to wash the puke away (if needed for number 6)
8. A change of clothes for each child on each trip!
9. Hand sanitizer for adults
10. A sense of humour!!!

PUKE HAPPENS, be prepared :D

I cannot sleep

I keep wondering who will be next. Cliff is sick also...

That leaves Cameron, Courtney, and me!

Puke Patrol

We have had a lot of puke going on in the last 49 hours...4/8

Catie: All over the tile floor, bathroom door downstairs, walls, sink and toilet and repeat into her bucket many times until this morning, Looked like a crime scene.

Claire: All over herself, the upstairs carpet outside the bathroom, all over the walls and toilet and a couple more times into the toilet and fine this morning. Evn worse...bigger tummy, more volume.

Carly...this evening after dinner...like Catie's above and again a few minutes ago.

Caroline...just as puke from Carly is cleaned/in process she does it but all in her crib, stuffies, pillow etc.

Cliff feels sick because he cleaned it up, as I sanitized the whole two levels...we work as a team here. We have to smile about this, because it is times like this we just want to cry and quit. This process took us hours. Tonight we spent two hours. All of the kids are now in bed. Now round two of bleach on the hard floors. I just want to crash, but life goes on!

I won't be able to sleep well again...just going though the 'what if's'/Who next/I cannot afford to get this thoughts in my brain. I am thankful it was not in the van this time, not at a friends house and none on our new carpet. Time for a profesh cleaning!

PS Laura now is the time to create a puke kit for your vehicle if you don't have one already. Two years old seems to be when the barf-o-rama begins. Well, in my experience anyways. Sorry there is puke in your vehicle and home.

Why puke in July?! I am not sure. Hubby informs me he is close to puking now too. That will be 5/8 but not our record of 7/8. That was back around Mother Day of this year.

May we all feel much better tomorrow.

PPS I really think I deserve HE washers after all of this. My machines are running for what feels like 24/7!