What a week!

This last week was quite a dozy!  It started out with our Realtor telling us that someone else put an offer in on the house I flew to North Carolina to look at.  He went on vacation the day after I flew home, so we didn't send him our offer until he was already out of the country.  He didn't get good Internet reception and we didn't feel rushed, so we told him we could wait until he got back.  Then he emailed saying the other realtor had contacted him to let him know the other offer was in.  He asked them to wait a day for him to get back to the states and get our official offer in.  Then Tuesday rolled around...

Monday night Daniel wasn't going to sleep very well and about 10:30 he started to throw up.  He threw up about every 30-45 minutes for the rest of the night.  He has been fighting a cold for almost a month and all the thick mucus draining down his throat made it a really really rough night!  The next morning he throw up for the last time about 6:30.  Bradley started throwing up about 6:45!  Needless to say Tuesday was a long day.

My sick little kiddos... you know they are sick when they will sleep during a movie.

Poor Eliza kept getting put aside while I tried to take care of all the "fun" things...like rinsing our puke bowls, wiping down the bathroom, washing bedding, clothes, etc...

(I know you are all jealous!)

When they weren't sleeping or puking they were snuggling with blankets and watching movies.

Daniel finally started eating cheerios and crackers around 10 am.

It took Bradley most of the day to get to where he could keep more than water down.

By about 4:30 they thought they needed some fresh air.  There was a little bit of a breeze, so they had to take their blankets with them.

They were suppose to stay in their chairs, but there were fighter jets taking off from base that we had to look for.  They are so cool!

The boys both went to sleep around 5:30pm and slept through the night until about 7 am!  Wednesday was full of trying to recover from all the sickness.  Bradley was good to help with Eliza while I tried to get a few things done.

Wednesday was a rush to get our official offer in on the house we wanted.  Our realtor emailed us the paperwork for us to sign.  We jumped in the car and ran to base for Andy to sign the papers.  He ended up having to print some more paper work off and bring it home during lunch.  To make this long and emotional story short, we offered them exactly what they wanted because a third offer came on the table.  The sellers went with the third offer and we were back at square one!

This is a picture of the house we wanted.  We had been planning all the things we could do when we got this home.  Now we are thinking we will probably rent.

To top it all off I started feeling sick during the night.  I spent have the night on or leaning over the toilet.  As careful as I had been to wash after working with the boys, I got the stomach bug!  Thursday was a pretty rough day too.  Luckily for me Angie lives close by and she took the boys all afternoon so I could get more rest.  Andy picked them up on his way home and took care of EVERYTHING for the rest of the night.  Friday was spent trying to reclaim my house from the roller-coaster week we had.  The silver lining of the whole week is that Andy and Eliza seem to have come through unscathed by all "fun" the boys and I had, and we were able to have a relaxing weekend as a family.