Halloween that almost wasn't

Halloween that almost wasn't

Yesterday was Friday October 31st - Halloween.

Other than both me and Renee being sick since early in the week - things were mostly going as expected. I did have to stay home from work on Wednesday to take the time to recover as my symptoms weren't letting up so I did that. On Wednesday's Poh Poh comes over to help Vickie with the pick ups and drop offs, allowing Vickie to focus on Josephine and house chores.

In the evening after dinner when the kids came back Kira complained that her stomach was uneasy. Thinking it was just car-sickness we put the kids to bed. By 8:30 she came out of her room and threw up in the hallway. While I cleaned up the hall Vickie gave Kira a shower - but by the time we got thru that, Vickie was feeling uneasy and was also throwing up. 

That entire night from 8:30 until the about 2am it was one right after another, Kira, Vickie, Josephine waking up, feeding, and back to sleep, rinse and repeat. Thursday I needed to stay home to take care of things but it was non stop since I was working from home and keeping the house running while Vickie and Kira rested the day way.

By Friday most things were back to normal but Kira missed school mostly because of expsosure reasons. She was very bummed but she came to terms with missing the school activities of decorating and measuring the pumpkin she took to school earlier in the week.

We almost didn't let the kids go out for trick-or-treating - but I decided life was too short to skip it. I let them get suited up after dinner and then we went out to just a couple of the neighbor's houses. We didn't go all out, we just hit a couple houses but that was enough for them to get it out of their system. Glad I did because they're happy we went out - and I'd rather not look back on it and regret any decisions.

It was a bit of a whirlwind evening so I took no pictures - and we haven't found the dog costume for Josephine. I expect that we'll find it today and we'll suit everyone back up so we'll get some pictures for the records. (And I'll post them here)