Well, That Was Especially Rough

The week Logan goes to conference (or training or boot camp) is never easy. Sure, there’s the normal stuff like single parenting for a week and exhaustion. Thank goodness for Grandparents and a nanny! But there’s also the spiritual attacks...the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up stuff. 

Ever since I met and joined a lovely group of women in bible study, the attacks have lessened in severity. They are quite the prayer warriors. I don’t know what they do exactly in their prayer lives, but boy is it effective. And we’re so grateful. 

But once in a while we still get hit hard, and that was this time. It hasn’t happened quite so badly since two summers ago. 

Logan left Monday morning for Arizona and spent 11 hours flying and being delayed in airports. He got to conference at 10pm. 

I got a cell phone for the first time back in 2000 when I was in college. I’ve never dropped my phone in any liquid...until this particular Monday. That’s 19 years. It’s never happened. Are we surprised it happened for the first time during conference?! Nope. 

Into the toilet it went. I forgot it was in my pocket. A few days later I dropped it in my tea. MY DRINK, people. What on earth?! 

Meanwhile, Levi, who’s ultimately been sick with one thing or another since October, was still not feeling well. Ear infection and bleeding bottom from the antibiotics going thru his system, not sleeping. 

My parents were rock star help and we also hired a nanny part time for the week, so although it was completely exhausting to keep up with a sick baby and three big brother’s on Christmas break, we were surviving. 

On Tuesday, New Years Eve, Logan spent the day at conference. 

Levi got a fever that was pretty aggressive. He pukes when we give him Tylenol so I had to learn to *ahem* give him a different form of the med. That was a first for me. 

That night my mom and I sat up all night long with Levi. We each got about an hour of sleep. 

On Wednesday I woke up around 4am my mom said Levi was more sick than a few hours before. It being New Year’s Day, we headed to the ER. 

He had influenza A, and we were too far in to give him meds, and he was too young to have a flu shot so he had no immunity. 

Our nanny was great help, and Elias likes her a lot (Threenagers are not easy to please), but she didn’t get a flu shot so I sent her home for the rest of the week. 

And that was my limit. For the first time in 11 years I asked Logan to fly home early, and he TOOK IT LIKE A CHAMP. 

Logan spent 15 hours flying home on Wednesday. He spent more time traveling than he did at conference. 

Meanwhile, Levi and I cuddled constantly. Elias started telling me he felt achy. Lovely. Luckily, he had a flu shot so he wasn’t hit as hard as his baby brother, but he definitely got influenza A as well. 

The big boys had lots of fun with G&G and never caught a single germ. Miraculous. 

Logan made it home. G&G went home to catch up on sleep. I sat down without a hot baby on me for the first time in days. 

And then they both got secondary infections. Yep. Levi got a double ear infection and Elias got pneumonia. We’ve been to the doctor’s office every day this week except Wednesday. 

Luckily, the big boys still remain healthy. They went back to school on Monday. 

The pneumonia is gone, but poor Levi. His bottom is still a very sore mess, and his ear infection will not go away. He will have to get tubes next week.

And now we have a break until February when boot camp happens.