4 of our 5 children are sick with fever, they are all very tired, and some are throwing up. I had 3 of them in my bed by 6 o’clock this morning. By 6:45am, I was being “pushed” out of bed by the 3 year old, hence I’m up now. 3 of them are still sleeping and 2 of them are down stairs with me. As of last night the 5th child wasn’t sick, but I have yet to inspect her this morning. So we’ll see.
This is great timing. Tomorrow, we are to travel to Green Bay for my midwife appointment and Friday we are traveling 5+ hours south for a wedding we are catering for about 200 people. In the meantime, I need to get the laundry all done by Thursday, get the house cleaned, make a dress for Grace and myself, finish a dress for Maacah (okay, so the dresses are not “needs”, but they are really big “wants”), pack clothes and food for this weekend trip, and I was planning of catching up on school. The school things doesn’t look like it’s going to happen today, esp. with 2 of the 3 students sick. That may not sound like much to do in 3 days (remember, tomorrow we will be mostly gone from home), but when you have 5 littles to tend to, 4 of them being sick, you actually don’t get as much done as you would think.
She had 5 children, how ’bout you?
4 were sick and one was just fine;
And the school work for both, was getting farther behind.
She woke up that morning, to 3 bodies in bed;
And her tummy was growling, for it needed to be fed.
The sun was just rising, it was a beautiful day;
It was sad she was inside, nursing away.
She was grumbling with her lot, now the week was just starting;
And all of her plans were now departing.
“Of all the weeks,” she said to herself;
“Now all of my goals must be put on the shelf.”
But a voice made her stop, as her grumbling grew;
“Mommy I love you.” and she knew it was true.
The littles are sick and they need lots of help;
But that’s no reason to cry and start to whelp.
The Lord gave her children, to love and to care;
For life is not always about sunshine and fair.
To stop and give thanks, is what we’re to do;
No matter what life has shown to be true.
Our plans have changed, things aren’t as we hoped;
And sometimes we feel quite prodded and poked.
But the Lord is smiling when we learn what we need;
To love a child is to love Him indeed.
Hope that everyone is feeling better. Rowyn was sick on Sunday and monday had a fever of 104.0 She is much better today!