Feeling Better!

Nadia threw up last night right after she went to bed. Thankfully she ran to the bathroom and so there wasn't a big mess to clean up. Just in case it was the beginning of a night like we experienced on Friday night, I put a vinyl tablecloth on her bed (over her fitted sheet) and took her comforter, extra pillows, and doll off the bed. It proved to be unnecessary precautions as she didn't throw up again after that. It came out of the blue, as she had seemed fine for more than 48 hours at that point. She went to gymnastics yesterday evening, etc. Because she threw up last night, I decided we shouldn't go to ladies Bible study this morning because #1 I didn't want to share our germs if we were still contagious and #2 I didn't want her to throw up there. Nadia was very upset this morning when I told her we weren't going. In hind sight we could have gone, but I still think I made the right decision with the information that I had at the moment. Today was the last session on Hebrews. If we don't move this summer, I plan to join again next fall. I woke up feeling back to normal. I had the mildest case of anyone in the family, but still it felt good to feel normal again today. Yesterday I felt like I do in the first few months of pregnancy. It felt like "morning" sickness all day (I am not pregnant but just making the comparison). As of a few minutes ago, we have now gone 24 hours without anyone throwing up in our house (aside from Ian gagging on some food he didn't like at dinner but that is not about due to a virus). YAHOO! It would be awesome if we could go another six years before we have the stomach virus again, but that's probably wishful thinking.

This afternoon we rented Frozen from a kiosk at our local grocery store. We turned off our cable last month and switched from a DVD subscription with Netflix to a streaming subscription. We've been checking DVD's out from the library instead, but the wait for the Frozen DVD from the library was really long so we splurged and paid $1.59 to rent one because everyone has been talking about this movie for months. I've never taken the kids to see a movie in a theater before, and I considered doing it for this one because everyone kept talking about what a great movie it was. Paul and I haven't been in a movie theater for ten years, but I do want to take the kids to see one sometime in the next year or two so they can see what it's like. Frozen would have been a good choice for that experience. We watched the movie this evening. It was a special treat for the kids because we never let them watch a Disney movie in one sitting. We usually limit them to 20-45 minutes of tv watching a day, and that means it takes 2-3 days to watch a Disney movie, but we let them watch the whole thing (1hr 40 minutes) this evening. We enjoyed it.

P.S. The photo above was taken on Sunday afternoon. Ian fell asleep on the couch earlier than our usual 1pm nap time. You can see he's wearing his beloved R2D2 socks and holding Ricochet (two other Incredible Vegetables are on the couch beside him).