We had a pretty full evening schedule this week and were looking forward to having some fun with friends. The week started off pretty well and ended up being disappointing. And icky.
Tuesday night we babysat for a couple of friends of ours. Maranatha was having their faculty Christmas party so we were asked to watch five extra kids. Anna was the youngest to be in our home, so it went pretty smoothly. I find older children MUCH easier to watch than the little ones! We had two third-grade boys, two first-grade girls (plus our own 1st grader), two four year-old boys (one being Ben), and Anna. Anna trailed after the older girls in a hero-worship trance for most of the evening, copying everything they did. The three older boys played with Legos and Ben and his friend just fit into the cracks. For having eight kids in the house, it was pretty quiet!
Wednesday night was our last night of Truth Trackers for the year. Ben came home with a blue candy cane (and a blue mouth) and Matthew had loads of papers and stuff from the "store." He also had an impromtu Christmas program practice since church had been cancelled on Sunday. He wasn't too happy about that, but at least they got in an extra rehearsal. Ben also came home with a stomach bug that manifested itself early Friday morning. We'll get to that in a bit.
On Thursday, one of the families we babysat for returned the favor and sent us on a date. We have actually watched their kids a few times this fall, so not only did they babysit, they bought us a gift card to a mystery restaurant. THAT was fun! We got dressed up, dropped off the kids, THEN found out our destination! We ended up at Hi-Way Harry's in Johnson Creek. Sounds like a greasy spoon, but it's actually a rather nice steakhouse. We had a secluded booth and a very nice dinner. We did some brief shopping at the outlet mall then went back to get the kids. Anna cried piteously about leaving--she's never seen so many big girl toys!
At about 2:30am Friday, we woke up to the sounds of Ben getting sick in the bathroom. I'm SO thankful he was able to make it there! We got him resettled into bed and didn't hear anything more for the rest of the night. He woke up feeling fine, but got sick again. He spent the rest of the day on the couch and conked out for the night at 6pm. We had to skip our Sunday school class party that night, but that was the one event we looked forward to the least, mainly b/c it was a family party and we'd have to corral kids AND pay attention to the adult events. Instead, Rob and I finished up dipping buckeyes and oreo balls to prepare for Saturday.
Everyone seemed fine Saturday morning, so we plated up candy and drove around town to deliever 12 plates of goodies to Sunday school teachers, Truth Tracker workers, and my upline. 9 of the 12 were home, so we considered that to be pretty successful. The kids had a great time getting out at their own teacher's house to deliver goodies. All three of them delivered to one of Anna's teachers because they all love her so much. We got to go inside and see her husband's huge train collection, which the kids all enjoyed. Rob too! In the afternoon, I ran Matthew to Christmas program practice and stayed there for 2 hours. He would not go unless he knew I was in the building, so I took some stamp stuff and worked on my remaining Christmas cards. After that, we picked up the rest of the family and went to a friend's house for dinner.
We have been trying for months to get together with them and finally had a time where everyone was healthy and the weather was cooperating (they live in a town 40 mintues away.) Or so we thought. As we sat down to dinner, Anna looked a little uncomfortable, so I ushered her into the bathroom. She threw up right as we reached the door, then finished in the toilet. Rob and I cleaned up the mess and our hostess got her a change of clothes. Thankfully, they have a daughter Anna's age. She seemed fine and I attributed it to drinking juice too quickly...until she got sick again. We helped clean up that mess and quickly ushered our family out the door. Anna made use of her new bucket on the way home and collapsed on the couch when we arrived. Ben was sick again in the night, so I knew I'd be keeping two children home today.
Ugh. Both Anna and Ben were to have sung in the Christmas program today. The 2s and 3s haven't sung in a program since Matthew was 2 and I was so looking forward to seeing my cute little girl in her Christmas dress up on the stage. I had some cute red bows for her hair and was planning pig tails. Ben's group hasn't sung in a long time either so he missed out. Rob took Matthew and video taped the whole thing. He did a great job singing and behaved very well during the dramatic portions of the program. And he looked VERY handsome in his little suit, complete with a gap in his teeth where he lost a tooth yesterday! My plans had included our family celebrating after church at the Chinese buffet, but those plans are obviously out.
We have nothing going on this week prior to Thursday other than taking candy plates to our neighbors. Hopefully we're all healthy enough to do that!
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