Update: Thank you all for the nice comments about the boys and for wishing us a quick recovery. As of Thursday, everyone is healthy again, back to work and school. Thank you also for putting up with my random stream of consciousness talking with no ending punctuation. Ryan finds it hard to believe that the comma splice queen can be an English teacher also.
This has been a rough week around our house because we have all had the stomach flu. Tues. morning at 2am Ryan and I came down with the fun bug. We kept both boys home from school because Liam was still recovering from his bout on Monday and Lance because we didn't want him to get sick at school and we needed someone to take care of everyone. I have never felt so helpless and with Ryan out of commission also it was quite the day. We had Lance carry Ryan's cell phone and I had mine and we called him when we needed something. Today I woke up feeling better and finally made it downstairs to the BIG mess that greeted me, however I just wanted to share all the wonderful things Lance and Liam did yesterday to help out.
Lance helped by
1. Bringing us water and Popsicles when we asked
2. Entertaining Liam
3. Making his own lunch of a PB&J sandwich
4. Making rice for dinner for them (I walked him through it on the phone)
5. Putting clothes from the washer on the line downstairs (Oh yes, our dryer decided to break during my laundry frenzy on Monday, so I had to make clotheslines downstairs)
6. Emailing his teacher and told her he was home and he was going to email her his homework ( I found that one this morning, but he couldn't work it enough to actually email the homework)
7. Taking all of the phone calls from family that wanted to know how we were doing
8.Feeding Liam throughout the day
9. Helping make Liam's bed (which I stripped the day he was sick)
10. Feeding the dog and letting her out
11. Overall taking good care of everyone
Liam helped by...
1. Not fighting with his brother
2. Not being too demanding
3. Helping with laundry
4. Resting and being good
5. Helping Lance by being errand boy
We are very proud of our two helpful boys and we are sure they are going to make fine adults some day.
5 comments:
wow, what a helper! hope you guys are feeling better!
I am sorry to hear you were so sick, glad to hear you are feeling better, and happy to hear how well your boys did! You should be so proud :)
Your boys did a great job! We had the stomach flu also, but Sam was the first one to get it. Two days later, all of us girls got it, and then Eric got it after he was done taking care of us. Thankfully, he had Monday and Tuesday off!
I am sorry to hear you all were sick and so proud of Lance & Liam my "buttons are popping off". I battled frozen pipes for 2 days and it is snowing hard right now. The mill has several busted pipes and my office is leaking. I guess this week is just bad every where. Hang in there!! Grandma Becky
Wow Julie, I am very impressed that two boys could pull off such a feat! Good for them. Everyone here is sick with the stomach flu as well. I'm glad you are starting to feel better.
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