When Returning to Work Trumps Your Weekend

Ugh, it was a rough weekend. Last week Declan came home from daycare throwing up on Wednesday. I stayed home with him on Thursday and he was doing much better by the evening. His system was still out of whack a little over the weekend though. He was picky about eating and kept asking for drinks. We did our best to keep him hydrated. That led to a major diaper situation yesterday afternoon which resulted in him getting a pre-nap bath, yikes! When no one else was sick by Friday morning I thought we were in the clear. Sadly that wasn't the case. After a frustrating fight to get to Tysons Corner Center on Friday night I had a very nice dinner with some of my friends. About half an hour after I got home my stomach started to hurt and I knew what was coming. I spent the night throwing up and the rest of Saturday feeling generally crummy. I didn't even bother to put on my Fitbit. I also fell behind on all of the weekend chores because I just didn't have the strength to do much. The thing that stinks about being sick when you have kids is that you really don't get to relax. You kind of just have to suck it up and power through. I missed going into D.C. on Sunday morning to cheer on my friends who were running the Cherry Blossom 5k and 10 miler because I knew I wouldn't be up to it, even though Sunday was a vast improvement over Saturday. I crammed Sunday full of laundry and other tasks to make sure we were caught up for the coming week.

In the end I got the grocery shopping finished yesterday afternoon and we had time to take a quick walk in the neighborhood. I made turkey burgers on the grill and once the kids were in bed we collapsed in front of the T.V. in wait of the Game of Thrones premier.

Did I mention that Evan's top two teeth erupted over the weekend? Yup, sure enough I could see the edges of both of them yesterday. As you might imagine he was totally thrilled about that all weekend.

Sigh, needless to say I need a weekend to recover from my weekend. Or maybe just an hour or so here on the treadmill desk.

I hope everyone else had a better weekend!