Weekend plans become fluid (in many ways)

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

The original plan for today was Daniel swim lesson, followed by James' soccer game, followed by Parris' birthday party, and maybe a shopping trip. These plans have all been overtaken by events.

First, the snow caused a postponement of Parris' birthday party and the movement of James' soccer game indoors. And to be honest I was not bothered by that. No more than I was bothered by the chance to stay home yesterday due to kid's snow day. So school and work were out of the picture and so was the birthday party.

That all began to change yesterday afternoon when James first started complaining that his tummy bothered him. This was followed by his throwing up all over the couch as we were watching a movie, and just as Kim got home. He actually started feeling better after that. So I figured that maybe lunch just didn't agree with him. Then after eating dinner his Tummy went south again, leading to his throwing up just before we were going to send him to bed (yay more puke to throw up!). But he began to settle down after that and seemed like he might be okay.

Then we got woken up at 1 by Daniel throwing up all over the place. 2 bouts of that to clean up, a quick aside, apparently after 3 kids Kim has a very hard time dealing with puke so it is up to me to do the cleaning now. So maybe it was a temporary thing, and maybe we could still do the swim lesson and soccer game. Until they both woke up feeling out of sorts, and complaining about their stomach's. That cinched it, I am afraid to give them any food right now, and there is no way I would expect them to swim and play soccer. So it is a day of nursing for me, keep giving them fluids, and keeping Emily away from them. The odd thing about this is there are really no other symptoms, just icky tummy, no fever to speak of. I just hope they are feeling well enough tomorrow to go to a friends birthday party at the swimming pool.

So the plans for the weekend so far have been cancelled, and here's hoping that only happens today, and Sunday we can resume life as scheduled.