Our long but mostly wonderful week.

So our Saturday was great. But when Adam woke up Sunday he was so sick he couldn't get out of bed. As I mentioned a few posts back it was hard for me to wrap my brain around Adam being sick on a Sunday. First of all I have known Adam to be sick about 2 times in the past 6 or 7 years. And it was a Sunday. I had need my weekends to recharge, cook, and clean, and get ready for another week. I took the kids to the park for a few hours in hopes that Adam sleeping in would shake his sickness. But when I got back and saw him curled into a ball with chills and horrible body aches I knew we were in for it. Poor man suffered for a full week.

And I was like a single mom. It took a few days to get the hang of it, but I learned a lot.

What made it harder was the kids were sick too, they had fevers, coughs, and were extra clingy and needy. Of course my thoughts immediately lead to them have the swine flu since Adam was almost definitely battling with the flu. Turns out they had a bad head cold that they so kindly passed on to me.

But being the responsible member of society that I am I made the decision to stay home all week from everything we normally do so that we didn't pass on the cold, and possible the flu if any of us got it from Adam (which we didn't). We didn't go to the park, playgroup, Halloween parties, nursery school, the store, the gym, swim class. We missed our friends both little and big.

But you know what? I really enjoyed it. Not the missing my friends part, but the staying home and just being with my kids.

I had the space and time to watch my waldorf inspired daily rhythm flourish. Days were long but flowed so well. We cooked together, cleaned together, crafted together, played inside together, made short trips into the backyard every few hours to get some sun. We napped together, bathed together, ate together, slept together (honestly I did not sleep at all with two magnets, I mean kids snuggled so close to me I couldn't even move.

A few pics to show our products. I am usually all for coloring, painting, and playdough, in fact those things are part of our daily art times, but I went out on a limp here and did several little cute and easy projects. Most of the ideas are from this wonderful blog:

http://chasingcheerios.blogspot.com/

We made twig books, very easy. The kids picked out their sticks in the backyard. I still want to get a bunch of beautiful stickers to decorate....

I made my first pumpkin pie ever, and every part was from scratch. It was really good, but next time I will try to make it a bit sweeter. I also made whip cream for the first time ever. I learned there is a fine line between whip cream and butter.

This pic doesn't do my yarn pumpkins justice. They are adorable and Kate and Charlie both made one (with some help)....

We baked every morning. Alternating between banana bread and pumpkin bread/muffins. My sweet dad picked us up groceries daily...look at those cute bakers.

The kids LOVED this project. So easy and fun. All you need is orange paint, white paint, and black paper. I painted each kids foot (they especially love this part) and had them step on their paper, I then painted their palms orange to make the pumpins. They make cute ghost and pumpkin wreathes.....something we will keep forever, unless we loose them like most thinks we make...

And my nature table is finally complete. Almost everything I made. The Jar-o-lanterns, felted gnomes, pumpkins, yarn pumpkins.....

Finally on Thursday I had the chills, and no appetite, I feared I was catching Adam's flu, and I was tired, so we called Adam's mom to help. Adam's parents came right over and took the kids. We were able to rest, get a break, and enjoy time together...even though we were both feeling bad. The kids had a blast, I am sure.

Thank you to everyone who has offered to help. I have had many texts, calls, and emails throughout the week offering to bring food, pick up medicine, help in any way possible. I love our little town, our community, and our family.

Many places in the world have true winters. Houses are covered in snow and families really hunker down. Half Moon Bay doesn't really have seasons, so we can continue to attend playgroup, classes, go to parks and the beach. This is a wonderful thing for sure, but this week has shown me that there is a lot to be said for staying home and enjoying the ins and outs of being a mom with two little adorable kids....