glad the weekend is over

It started out nice.

Mr M gave me a huge bunch of gorgeous flowers,

No 2 had a glorious party with all his school friends and spent the afternoon in heaven opening gazillions presents and I spent the evening preparing for my day out with some lovely girls.

I needn't have bothered.  My wonderful children, the light of my life, decided to be simoutanously ill through the night.  All night.  Two of them.  All night, did I say that?  Vomit/change the bed/pooh/wash them/change of pijamas/vomit/change the bed/pooh and vomit/change the pijamas and the bed... and so on and so forth.

Needless to say I didn't sleep more than a second or two.  And I had to abandon my plans and not meet up with  Ali and Caroline.  And spent the days doing the washing instead.  And felt very sorry for myself.

And knit.  Yes because if my destiny for that day was to spend it inside the playroom (when not in the laundry room) watching some mind numbing children television surrounded by foul germs then I was at least to be allowed to do something.

My first hand warmer with thumb.  A small silver lining in a very dark cloud.

Comments

[Louise]

That's awful! My little one has a really awful cough that keeps waking her up almost every hour so I too expect little sleep tonight!!

[Anina]

How awful! The joys of motherhood. Congrats on the handwarmer. Maybe you need another day in the playroom to knit the other one...

[Holly]

What a rotten weekend! So sorry your lovely plans were changed in such an unpleasant way. At least you were building good memories for your children - not the vomiting and pooh part, but the "My mother took such good care of us when we were sick, cleaned and comforted us in the middle of the night, and even watched our mind-numbing kids' shows with us!" part.

[Alisa]

Oh, that's terrible! I can so sympathize with you - I've been there. And it always happens when there is something exciting supposed to be happening. {hugs}

[Megan]

Yep, that counts high on the list of crap weekends. My three always seem to come down sick in pairs as well - what's with that? Still, if one has a hand warmer with thumb, one can face almost anything.

[Rebecca]

Hope everyone is feeling better now and no one else has come down with it!

Sorry to hear you missed out on the show too.

[kate1976]

Oh my. I hope the clan are feeling better very soon. Those arm warmers are lush. I want. I WANT!

[Jade]

Oh no! That sounds like gastro. Wait...don't things come in threes? Anyway, I empathise with you. It's so not fun. At least you haven't come down with the bug...and you managed some cool knitting, too. :-)

[Sonya]

Started and ended on a lovely note, with yucky body fluids in between. Hope everyone is on the mend!

[luckybeans]

Oh dear! I do hope your week gets better.

[janet clare]

Sounds hideous. This bug is going round blogland at the moment (which is amazing isn't it?). Hope you escape it!
You know what they say: "Beauty is within grasp"- there is ALWAYS something good or beautiful, always.

[Tiel]

oh, pooh and spew (australian term form vomit) not so good. here's to a fantastic weekend ahead.

[Felicia]

Hope things are better soon. Love your beautiful flowers.

[Mirre]

Aah, poor you, your weekend sounds horrible!!
I hope the boys are better!

[Chara Michele]

Oh my that sounds awful... you poor thing!
At least that arm warmer is lovely! :)

[amandajean]

hope your kids are feeling better! your first handwarmer looks lovely. sorry to hear that your plans got cancelled over something so unpleasant. (my husband and I had a date night planned on Fri. night and I was so afraid that one of our kids or the sitters kids would get sick before we could leave the house...I think I held my breath most of the week. ;)

[driftwood]

sorry to hear you missed your day out, I hope the children are feeling better, and most importantly that you don't get whatever they had; take care of yourself.

[Ruth]

Sounds dreadful. Hope they recover soon!

[julie]

Sorry to hear that you missed out on a fun day out - how is it that germs seem to come a calling at the most inconvenient times?! I'm not surprised that you were feeling a wee bit miffed! Still the knitting is lovely - that is a gorgeous handwarmer. Hope your boys are feeling better now.

[Clare]

I have also just made some hand/wrist warmers and I daren't wear them as my kids have accused me of turning into an "emo"!
I'm going to have to find something un-emo and knit them again - perhaps some nice undyed silk?