Our Week - The One with Summer Break, Week 2 (Getting Home from the Beach and a Sick Kid)

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We got back from another wonderful trip to the beach, and since I’ll be recapping that trip separately, my weekly post is going to be short and sweet since we were only home for the second half of Saturday and all of Sunday.

Saturday, June 6

Saturday, we arrived home around lunchtime.  We swung by Chick-Fil-A to bring food home since there was nothing to eat for lunch there, and literally right when we walked in the door at home, Olivia ran to the bathroom and got sick.  She had been complaining all morning saying she didn’t feel well and that she didn’t sleep well that last night we were at the beach, and then in the car, she looked awwwwful.  She felt so bad that she didn’t even want to spend time on her iPad, and she complained of feeling car sick the whole way.  She gets nauseous in the car sometimes, but it’s never anything major, and usually she feels better once I give her a peppermint or some peppermint gum.  But nothing worked Saturday.

I was so thankful that she waited to throw up after we got home, though.  Thank goodness it didn’t happen in the car.  (Although, I do keep these on hand in the car just in case!)  Neither Jacob nor I can handle vomiting, so it would not have been a good situation.  Jacob immediately went upstairs to get out of earshot while I held Olivia’s hair and comforted her.

Immediately after that, she felt better and she ended up eating her entire meal from Chick-Fil-A, but after lunch, she said she was tired and she went to her bedroom to lay down.  After 20 minutes or so, she came out, though, saying she couldn’t fall asleep.

Meanwhile, I went around sanitizing everything she’d touched in the short amount of time we’d been home, and then Brian, Jacob, and I all ate lunch and then unloaded the car. 

Midway through the afternoon Olivia was still feeling exhausted, and she successfully went to sleep in her room, not waking up until 5:30 PM.  While she slept, I tackled my long list of things to do:

 

-       Unpack everything

-       Wash 5 loads of laundry

-       Unload the dishwasher

-       Transfer all photos and videos from our trip from my phone to my computer

-       Catch up my planner to the current day (I have notes that I write in each day even when we’re gone)

-       Get my planner ready for June

-       Plan the week ahead

-       Catch up on emails (this took foreverrrr and I’m still not done since so many emails need attention)

-       Doublecheck registration for Olivia’s June dance classes

-       Blog housekeeping tasks

-       Water the outdoor plants and check on our baby birds

-       Fix blog typos

-       Start organizing photos from our trip (this is always a huge undertaking since my phone and my computer do not play nicely together)

-       Put all the laundry away

 

While I did that, Brian hosed off all the beach stuff and put it away and he checked the oil in my car since I had that weird oil situation last month.  (It was fine even after all our driving!)

When we checked on our birdies, we saw that the birds that had hatched before we left for the beach had already left the nest, but the eggs that were in the other fern had hatched and we had new little babies!

For dinner, Brian picked up pizza for himself, Jacob, and me, and I made Olivia two chicken fingers per her request.  She still wasn’t feeling well, though, so she barely ate.  She ended up laying around all evening and she asked to go to bed before we ever even told her she had to.  I could tell she truly didn’t feel well because she wasn’t dancing and singing nonstop like she always is. 

After dinner, I got ready for bed, I removed my nail polish, and then the four of us sat down to watch the first episode of the new season of America’s Got Talent.  While we watched, I also made a meal plan and a grocery list for the week ahead and I caught up on our One Second a Day video that I make each year for our family.

Olivia made it through most of AGT but asked to go to bed right before it was over.  We told her there was just one act left, so she ended up staying up for the last one and then I got her tucked in to realize that she was running a fever of 100.9.  Poor girl.

Since Olivia was running a fever, Brian texted his mom and sisters to let them know that we wouldn’t be able to make it to lunch at my MIL’s on Sunday, and that was a bummer since we hadn’t seen them in so long.  Normally, Brian would have taken Jacob, and they would have been able to go without Olivia and me, but he had to leave Sunday morning for a work trip, so he wasn’t in town.

After the kids went to bed, Brian and I made a round of toasted marshmallow old fashioneds and then we finished the last episode of season one of The Testaments, and then we started another episode of Your Friends & Neighbors before going to bed around midnight.

 

Sunday, June 7

Sunday morning, Brian was up at 8 AM to get packed for his trip.  I got up right behind him around 8:15 AM, and I was surprised to see that Olivia was already up.  She was hungry and thirsty and looking much better, and she asked for homemade waffles, and thankfully, we had one egg left and our recently expired milk smelled fine.  Haha.  I hadn’t had the chance to go to the grocery store, so we had practically nothing in the refrigerator.

After breakfast, I worked some more on organizing my photos while I drank my tea, and I did two more loads of laundry + washed our sheets.  The kids also did their laundry and their sheets, and Olivia finally unpacked, too.

Brian’s coworkers picked him up around 10:45 AM for their work trip and he flew to Delaware.

Right after he left, I showered, dressed, and did my hair, and then I headed to Walmart to get groceries.  Of course, the one day I didn’t wear makeup, I saw someone I know.  Haha.  It was my old boss from my corporate job.  I hadn’t seen him in forever, so we spent about 15 minutes catching up.  He isn’t on social media, so I hadn’t talked to him in forever although I am friends with his wife on Facebook.  It was SO good to see him, though.  I told him we needed to get together for lunch sometime because it had been too long.

When I got home, I unloaded the car and put away the groceries, and then I put away the massive mound of laundry while listening to The Swiftie and the Scholar podcast.  I watered all my indoor plant babies after that, and then the kids and I had lunch.  Olivia wasn’t hungry at all, but she ate a little, and thankfully, her fever was gone Sunday so she had perked up.

After lunch, I retreated to my office to get my blog post done for Monday, and I also wrote almost all my blog post for Tuesday.

By the time that was done, it was nearing dinnertime, so I baked some muffins for the kids to have for the week ahead, and then I got started on dinner.  We bought some precooked rotisserie chicken from Sam’s a few weeks ago, so I heated that up, made some mashed potatoes, and steamed some broccoli, and that was dinner.  The kids were in desperate need of a vegetable, and my body was craving something healthy, too.  That chicken from Sam’s was DELICOUS, by the way, and it was SO DANG EASY.  It comes pre-diced and pre-cooked, so you can use it in pastas, stir fries, in salads, on pizza… literally any way you want to.  All you have to do is heat it up.

Olivia barely ate yet again, but I could tell she was feeling better because she was way more lively on Sunday. 

After the kitchen was clean, I went out for a walk.  It looked like it was going to pour down rain the whole time I was out there, so I kept it short.  When I got home, I did an 8-minute arms workout on my vibration plate, and then I got showered.  It did, indeed, start raining shortly after I got home, and it rained for the rest of the night.

After my shower, the kids and I settled in to watch The Devil Wears Prada.  Brian had already seen it, so it was something we could watch without him, and the kids loved it.  Guess we need to go see the second one now!

When that was over, we all Facetimed with Brian, and then I tucked the kids in bed around 10:30 PM.  I read until about 11:20 PM and that was our weekend!

Happy Wednesday, y’all!