highlight

we've been holed up of recent, with a flu bug. my favorite you know. although i think i'm handing it better this year than i did last year. maybe cause we're all a year older, maybe being in a bigger space so we're not on top of each other while we're sick...

regardless the highlight was driving 50 minutes to the pumpkin patch on saturday, by myself with all the kids because matt was laid out. we were going to go apple picking and then get pumpkins, we had been talking about it for a week. a major undertaking to say the least, but the idea of not going sent the kids into hysteria. we hustled out of the house early and stopped at starbucks on the way out. AS SOON as we got out of the car isaiah says, 'mom, i don't feel good. i haven't been feeling good all morning, but didn't want to tell you because then i thought we wouldn't be able to come.'

i stare in unbelief for a brief second and a cold sweat breaks out at the idea of what might be coming. i know i have to act fast.

i must get sophia in a stroller so that i can put all my attention on isaiah. i strap her in and run to the other side of the field to find a trailer we can hide behind. and...well, you can guess the rest of the story.

it's my nightmare come true. all i remember thinking is that someone else must be the mother, because surely this can't be happening to me.

if he follows in alaythia's footsteps, he'll give more every 45 minutes. we're 50 minutes from home remember. i know the clock is working against me. we get back in the car and start for it. the freeways seem like death traps as i try to get home before he pukes again.

we did make it home, God is so gracious, and it seems we're on the mend. mommy is tired, but at least no one is puking.

now if i can just get the courage to try to go to that pumpkin patch again this weekend...