Flu Mania!

Monday night began our flu "adventure" here in the Dahl household. Monday afternoon Elsie started us out by losing her dinner on our carpet (luckily we own a steam cleaner ;) Shortly after that I started to not feel so great. I was up almost every hour that night with flu "yuck" (Mike was up also). Mike started to feel sick the next day and had all the symptoms by evening. Around midnight Tuesday night Weston threw up in his bed (all over his bed, clothes, stuffed animals, etc). An hour later Grace started in with her symptoms. Weston and Grace took turns the rest of the night being sick which ended up being about every 15 minutes throughout the night. I think I did 5 loads of laundry that night alone! Even though it was hard, and we were exhausted and sick, it felt like God gave us an extra dose of patience and energy that night to make it through.
It's now Friday and the kids are still not feeling great. It's hard to see them just sitting there with no energy or spunk. Thankfully, Mike was able to take 3 days off work, but he's back to work today. We've been hunkered down all week trying to get better. Sometimes it feels like it's never going to end! It's made me realize how tough it must be for people dealing with chronic illnesses with no end in sight. I'll gladly take the flu with a good attitude when I think about it from that perspective! Here's a few photos from our week. Grace is especially good at looking very ill and forlorn ;)