Easter 2013

The Sunday before Easter, Kate came down with the stomach bug!  It went through all 4 kids, twice,  and in the same order!  It was the weirdest thing.  Each one of them was sick for two days, better for two and then sick again for another day or two.  It hit Kate the hardest (we later learned it landed one of her classmates in the hospital).  We had at least one child throwing up for 8 straight days!  It was beyond fun.  I mastered the recipe for getting vomit out of the carpet (warm water, salt, dish soap, vinegar, rubbing alcohol and baking soda).  Every room in our home had been thrown up in!  It was nothing short of a miracle that David nor I ever came down with it.  On the Saturday evening just prior to Easter everyone was feeling well enough to finally dye our Easter eggs, but first David had to run to the store to buy more vinegar (we were all out from making so much vomit cleaner)!  The kids had fun as usual and were excited to finally do something after a long, boring week at home.

On Sunday morning, the kids had fun looking for their baskets and eggs.  Emily even got her first carrots and her very own chocolate baby bunny.  

Since everyone was feeling better we headed to church.  Nana had sent the girls matching dresses and I was able to find matching ties for the boys.  It was a struggle getting them to take pictures.  We did our best.  We kept Jacob out of nursery, just in case.  He hadn't thrown up for 2 days, but we had begun to believe our streak was never going to end.    

We came home from church and I decided to give the kids a lesson on Easter.  We hadn't really had time to talk about the true reason we celebrate Easter during the week (I was in survival mode).  After our lesson, we enjoyed a yummy Easter dinner of ham, cheesy potatoes, rolls, vegetables, cranberry mousse and Mississippi mud pie.  We enjoyed it that is until (you guessed it) Jacob threw up 10 minutes into it!  David and I cleaned everyone and everything up and finally got all the kids in bed.  Then we finished our own reheated dinner and may or may not have devoured a large amount of stress relieving mud pie!  It was an Easter week we'll probably never forget and hope to never repeat!