Week 29!

Week 29 was bad, I mean really bad here at home. Holy crazy sickness running through our house! The beginning of the week started out fine. Like I said, the first week that I am home with Audrey more :) Amazing! I've got so much stuff done around the house and her and I have tons of time to play! I am learning time management is still huge while home with Audrey because the day still seems to slip away. I am trying to keep her busy and on track as they do at her preschool because she's such a good kid I don't want her to veer off that schedule. And she is still there 3 days a week so she gets plenty of time to socialize and interact with kids her age. We play outside, go to the park, work on projects for Chris, work on reading, writing, and learning also! I wish I could be home everyday with her. I know the working mom want to be home and the stay at home moms want a break but I really would love to be home with a whole houseful of kids! Anyways, that's not the case but it is nice for some wishful thinking. 

So life was great until Friday morning as I was putting Audrey in her car seat on the way to school/work when she proceeded to projectile vomit everywhere... I mean everywhere. Crap, I had to be at work in a half hour and Audrey was sick. Again, another downfall of living the "single mom" life while Chris is deployed, I am left to fend for myself. There is nothing I can do. I cannot send her to school sick, I cannot send her to my mom's sick, or the neighbors... so I would have to call off work! That has never happened but I had a sick kid and nowhere to take her so we planned a day of snuggling on the couch. She continued to throw up a few more times that morning but by the afternoon she seemed to be back to her chipper self. Maybe a little flu bug or something she ate? Either way she bounced back beautifully and we were hanging outside by that evening. Come Saturday night I did have the same luck. 

After meeting my dad and rest of the family at a local sports bar from dinner, Audrey and I went home Saturday and played outside until it got dark outside. I went to bed with a little bit of an upset stomach but nothing major. Come 3am that all changed. I continued to throw up for almost 16 hours straight nearly every half hour or every time I put something in my system. We were suppose to go to Maumee Bay on Sunday to swim with the family but there was no way I could be further than 15 feet from the bathroom. Thank goodness my sister still offered to take Audrey out to the beach so I could get some rest. Than  Donna took her for a few hours in the evening because I was still not better. Moms don't have time to be sick! Especially me! A huge thank you to my sister and Donna for helping me out because poor Audrey would have been locked in the house for an entire day because I could not get out of bed! I am almost positive I had food poisoning from dinner Saturday night ... stomach cramps, body aches, fever along with the throwing up :/ So needless to say our weekend was consumed with being sick! By Monday I was still kinda weak but on the upswing :) 

And here we head into Week 30! I am so excited to I say that with everything going on I finished my accelerated summer classes strong! Now a little break until 3 more classes in the fall and I am done. I will finally have my bachelor's degree :))) It has been a long road but I am getting there with the support and motivation from Chris I feel like I can do anything :)) Okay, that was kinda cheesy but it is true even from Afghanistan he motivated me to get through my days! So we head into week 30 and we are looking at a few houses this week so hopefully something strikes me because thus far I have had no such luck. And then next week is August... the last full month alone. This is huge! Because Chris will be home in Septemeber! Some of the guys are beginning to start to come home and it will be only a matter of time until it is Chris' flight headed to the states. This is almost over!!! Thanks for all of the support and love guys!!