And it continued...

So Angela was throwing up on tuesday and tuesday night. I had about 4 hours of sleep on tuesday night so I was a little brain dead the next day, but other than that on Wednesday everyone seemed to be fine, until a few hours after bedtime. Alyssa started throwing up first around 10pm. Then knowing we could have a long night (and since I was completely exhausted from little sleep the night before), I went to bed and Rich stayed up to take care of her the first part of the night. Sometime around midnight he started getting sick, so I got up to keep taking care of her while he laid down in bed. Soon after that Ashley came out of her room- she felt like she was going to throw up. I made beds on the floor of the living room so they were closer to Rich and I's room and we could hear them- and NOT wake up Angela. By 1:30 I was starting to feel sick. By 2:30 I was sick, and as I was in the bathroom taking care of myself- Alex started to throw up in his bed... Rich was feeling slightly better so as I got sicker- he was able to get out of bed and take care of the kids. Angela also came and joined us sometime in the middle of the night- she wasn't sick- just feeling left out I guess, so I had to drag myself over to her room and lay down with her while Rich was taking care of the other kids.
I think the kids were throwing up until around 6am, and then we all crashed off into the deep sleep of sickness.

Rich got up when Angela woke up around 9 or so... and then the rest of us slept off and on all morning long. I'm so grateful that Rich was able to take care of the kids because I don't think I physically would have been able to.

So we figure there's the good and the bad to this: The good... we have now all had the flu and it won't drag on for a week while one person at a time gets it. The bad... I really have a mountain of laundry to tackle today...

I'm keeping all the kids home from school today. They were all feeling better by yesterday evening, but I thought it would be best to keep them home today... there are so many germs floating around with everyone getting sick right now- I thought a recovery day was in order.