Canceled

Well this just sucks. Yup. That's about how I could sum up my day. Josh and I had plans tomorrow to go Christmas shopping. My ultimate goal was to get all of the shopping done for our kids and nieces and nephews. Alex and Abby have been so excited because the plan was to drop them off with Grandma and Grandpa so they could help set up their Christmas tree while we go buy them presents. Alex has been practicing days with our Christmas countdown calendars that I've accumulated over the years. All week I told him that on day number 11, he was going to Grandma and Grandpa's house to put up the tree. Each morning, he wakes up and runs to me to ask, "Is today day number 7?" (or whatever day it is) This morning he said "Yay! Tomorrow is day number 11!"

Fast forward to 3:00 this afternoon. I got back from grocery shopping to find Abby wide awake on the couch when she should have been peacefully napping in her bed. Come to find out that she had just recently vomited...everywhere. I dropped my groceries on the floor and went to comfort my baby. My first thought of course was, "My poor sweet thing...I hope she gets better fast." My second though was, "Nooooooo!!!!! My day out is gone!" She spent all evening heaving up...well...nothing much because it all came up the first go around. She is now three hours into holding down her Pedialyte. Here's hoping it's just a 24 hour bug and not the devil virus that my friend Mandy brought home with her from her vacation. If it's that one, I'd better plan on spending a few days cleaning the carpet and a few more hovering the toilet myself. Not cool. So our big shopping day (you know, with all our extra income-sarcasm folks) is canceled and I am really bumming about it. I guess that's the breaks when you have kiddos though. Alex is starting to get snotty too so I'm assuming that he's on the brink of a nasty cold. Greeeaaat. Double the sickness, double the fun.