Yaggie Kids - Days 4-10

The best laid plans and all...

The intent was kind of the same as what I did for our trip to Florida a few weeks ago.  Daily blogs so I could recall what we did, what happened, the food we ate, every little thing, not only for my benefit, but so that I could share those things with Hilary and Blaine when they returned home.

Well, that didn't happen.

Why?

Because I was exhausted at the end of each day?

Because there was just too much going on to even consider remembering it all and journaling about it?

Because the flu hit all of us, except Landon, and writing in a journal was not on the recovery schedule?

So instead, as we approach the end of our adventure with the Yaggie kids....the highlights!

1.  Stomach flu - hit Tessa on the first Friday, then Owen on Sunday, then Gary on Monday, then Beth late Monday afternoon

2.   Laundry - keeping up with the kids and the towels was easy if I did it every other or every three days.  My goal is for everything to be clean, dry, and folded when H and B return.

3.  Food - meals have been interesting.  The first Saturday we stopped at McD in Delphi (no chicken on the grilled chicken southwest salad) for lunch food.  Karen and Tessa went to Delphi in a snowstorm for lunches on the first Sunday.  Pizza from Arni's on the second Friday for Pizza, Popcorn, and Movie Night.  Second Saturday lunch was from Culver's after the cheerleader clinic, and second Sunday lunch was at Buffalo Wild Wings. Other than that and two boxes of donuts from Flour Mill, we ate at home.  Strawberry and chocolate mini-donuts.  NutriGrain bars.  Hamburger Stroganoff.  Pancakes for Sunday dinner.  Ravioli.  Chicken tenders.  Lots of fruit.  Yogurt.  Plus packing lunches was fun.  We added in some homemade cookies to the lunch box.

4.  Bath times - every other day was bath time except for Landon who had shower time after wrestling practices too.  A fun treat was using the big garden tub with the whirlpool jets in Mommy and Daddy's master bathroom.  Lotsa bubbles the first time we did it!  We had to be careful with Tessa's hair too.  Didn't want to catch any of it!

5.  One of my biggest worries was having the kids dressed correctly. I didn't want to send them to school wearing mismatched clothes or argue with Tessa about about what she could or couldn't wear.  On the bedroom floor are three rows of clothes stacked with pants, shirts, underwear, and socks for each child.  After the first week and doing laundry, I re-arranged each row and it has worked great!  After Landon cleaned his room on Saturday, he brought in a stack of hangers and we hung up his clean shirts and he put away his pants, underwear and socks.  Then I hung up some of Tessa's clothes also.  Everything will be ready for at least a week or 10 days after we return home.

End of the evening and time for bed......to be continued.....