BOOOOOO to Hallowe'en

Where to even start? I guess it was the Monday before Hallowe'en. I started to feel as though a flu was coming on. Just really feeling like I should crawl into bed to try and avoid getting REALLY sick. Seems I was bit too late. By Tuesday,  I was still able to get Ethan to and from preschool school, but homeschooling was bare minimum. Wednesday, the kids basically found scraps of paper and started decorating the house for Hallowe'en to entertain themselves, while I slept on the couch. So by the time Thursday came around I knew that Hallowe'en was going to be baaaaaad this year. Ethan's school had a party that day and Maddy and I were supposed to go, but by then I was so sick and Maddy was beginning to get sick that we had to bail. Josh took the day off so that Ethan could still go. Thank goodness another parent made weiner wraps for the party, because when I told Ethan that we wouldn't be having weiner wraps this year, he was devastated.

My mom came over for the day to help out as well because by then Josh was beginning to feel under the weather too. Basically everyone was sick except for Ethan. The look on his face when he came home from the Hallowe'en party was priceless. Just so happy and content, while the rest of us felt like CR@P. Josh managed to carve the pumpkins with the kids and he took them to a few houses for trick-o-treating. When they came home, Josh went to bed and I stayed with the kids to open the door. Thankfully we only had 7 knocks on the door (the kids were counting).

By the weekend things were not good and it turned out it wasn't just the flu. I had pneumonia. OK, I'll just say that pneumonia REALLY sucks. Every coughing fit wipes you of all energy and by the time you recover, you have the cough again. I was ONE. HOT. MESS.  Josh and Maddy were still sick and our kitchen counter was just filled with everything from Advil/Tylenol (both adult and children's versions), Sinutab, Cold FX, antibiotics and even Pei Pa Koa (A chinese cough syrup). We were in dire straights. Thank goodness for my mom who came over everyday to take care of all of us and even on the weekends so that Josh could rest too. Mom, I don't know what we would've done without you. Thank you so much!

By Remembrance Day, I still wasn't fully on the mend and only now (Nov. 18th) am I beginning to take over looking after the kids on a full time basis. We are so behind in all aspects of life, it's not even funny. The cough is still there, though it's getting easier, but I still feel winded after the tiniest bit of exertion. So though I know it's way past Hallowe'en here are the few pictures we managed to get. The up side? Christmas feels like it's just around the corner now, and hopefully by then, we'll all be healthy enough to fully enjoy it.