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Rough Day

I has been a rough day at The Sparks House....

...Hannah Grace is still on the mend from a sinus infection and bronchitis over the weekend.

...Faith has a viral infection with a very high fever.

and

...Samuel had two cavities filled and two teeth pulled.

So, no picture today.

Did you ever wonder?

Did you ever wonder what was inside one of these pink squishy neck pillows?

After yesterday afternoon, I can tell you from experience.

The girls, Seth and I wait in line for about an hour to pick Samuel up from school each day. I took this picture yesterday of the view from my side mirror of the cars backed up for what seems forever....

We got these squishy pink neck pillows for the girls at Target (for a big $2.50 each) for them to use if they went to sleep while waiting for Bubba. Well, yesterday afternoon the girls were fighting over who was going to hold the one squishy thing, since the other one was at home. Hannah Grace was pulling on the tags and Faith had hold of the pillow, and yep - Hannah Grace pulled the tag off and little bitty tiny white "beads" when flying all over the back seat. After I caught by breath I got out of the van and went around to survey the damage, you see I had just vacuumed the car out before I picked the girls up from school. Here is what I found:

Apparently, these little bitty white beads stick to your hands like sand. We still had about 20 minutes to wait on Samuel and the girls (mostly Faith) passed the little bitty white beads back and forth drew "smiley faces" in the beads.

After Samuel got out of school we headed back to the car wash to vacuum the car out again. That was funny in itself, the wind was blowing so every time I vacuumed one spot the wind would blow and little bitty tiny beads would fly everywhere again. Once that was over I decided to go through the car wash. Well, Seth didn't like that, as you can see...

The car wash was over and we were finally on our way home - everyone was happy!

Number of the Day

I told you on Monday that my Mother's Day greeting was "Mom, I feel sick". Well if I had only known that was just the beginning. Monday afternoon, the kids I were on our way to take a church member, who had knee replacement surgery, supper; we were almost there and Hannah Grace said, "Mommy, could you hurry up, I'm going to throw up". I told here we were almost there, not thinking she really felt sick. Well, yep, she did feel sick. As we pulled into their drive, she threw up all over (and I mean, all over) herself and the van. I delivered the food and headed home. When I got home, I called Travis to tell him that Hannah Grace was sick. He said, "that explains it - I haven't felt good all day" The next time I called him, he was on his way home because he was sick.

If you are counting, that's two family members sick. (4:00pm)

Travis went straight to bed and Hannah Grace camped out in the living room. Samuel locked himself in his room and Faith was running around asking what was for supper.

At bedtime, I put Faith in the bed and Hannah Grace was still throwing up, so she and I were going to sleep in the living room.

Around 10:30pm, I was helping Hannah Grace and I heard a terrible sound - it was Faith getting sick.

We are up to three family members sick.

All through the night Hannah Grace and Faith would take turns getting sick. I guess I can take that as a blessing that they weren't sick at the same time. Travis is still sick in the bedroom.

At about 2am - I hit a breaking point, I didn't know if I was going to make it or not. I wasn't feeling too well myself, but every time I felt sick, I just prayed and asked the Lord to take it away.

Around 4am, everyone had stopped throwing up and was asleep, I finally laid down to catch a little bit of sleep, only to wake up at 6am as I was running to the bathroom.

Yes, four family members sick!

We were rescued by a neighbor who took Samuel to school. The other three had stopped throwing up, but were so exhausted they just stayed in the bed and on the couches. Mine finally passed yesterday afternoon.

If there is anything good about this virus or whatever it was, it only lasted about 12 hours.

Whew, that brings us up to today. We are all feeling better and have each eaten a little something; It seems to have passed through us all. Big Daddy also had it yesterday.

We pray that we haven't passed to anyone else. Have a great day!