this week

So i bet you all thought that i fell off the side of the world, or mountain, but i'm still here. Lets see where to start, well i guess the beginning would be a good place. Rewind one week, John's dad gets the flu and pneumonia and spends a week in the hospital. Then John's mom gets the flu, which really sucks because it's really bad for her to get sick because her immune system is compromised. Then Mindy gets the flu which sucks because she's pregnant, and then Leah gets the flu too. Which is where my life begins to turn upside down. Not that it wasn't already but you know what i mean. So we take both girls to the dr. so Leah can get on some special meds for the flu, and Sam has been coughing for like 3 weeks now and so she gets an antibiotic for that. Not to mention this is not just the regular flu but influenza B as they call it, i guess people are dying from it. not good. So two kids sick is not much fun at all. About two days later Leah is not taking in any fluids and only peed one time in over 24 hours. So if i can't get her to drink the dr. said she would have to go to the hospital and get an iv. for fluids. So i'm freaking in my mind trying to give her everything i even went outside and dug up some clean snow and she wouldn't even take that. So hopeless i called John and told him he had a tall order when he came home to try and get this kid to drink anything. We tried a few things and didn't work so finally John put her in the bathtub and got her to play a little and drink water out of the tub. way to go John. Thank god for small miracles even if they are from the bathtub i didn't care. So currently Leah is doing much better. Sam is still sick and can't breathe when she lays down which means long nights of me making sure she is still breathing. How morbid. So far John and I have not gotten the flu yet. we aren't out of the woods yet though. His mom is doing better and his dad is still coughing up a lung, i feel so bad for him. Then tonight we get a call from John's best friend TJ and his mom died. we are so sad. So we are trying to plan a trip up to wa. for the funeral. Are you feeling my stress yet. It's crazy, sometimes i wonder will life ever be normal or not so much to bear? I guess that's one part of having a big family, there is always something going on and the flu isn't over till every member of the family has had it. We have been hiding out in the house for the last week because we don't want to get anyone else sick. Oh, today i got a wild hair up my butt and emptied the dining room and when John got home from work we started pulling all the carpet up and we are going to lay granite tile this weekend. bless his heart for putting up with me and going along with the idea. ok that's enough for now