Long Time no write...

Ah dear,
All my good intentions come to naught - again!
Such a long time since my last update, people will have given up checking here!

I have been busy, if that's any excuse!
I've been off overseas to my sister's wedding in the UK - 13 days of no kids, sleep ins and being able to be a grown up - I even got upgrades to Premium Economy for 3 of the 4 long haul flights...now THAT'S a way to travel!
Granted while I was away various problems happened at home including a surreal experience of talking to P in NZ while I was in Oxford, UK and he was on the floor fiddling with the dishwasher which had broken down!

Then I was home for a week before P headed off to the US for 17 days for work - both his company and my company Little Tom.
So I was solo parenting for a while, as well as picking up the threads and dealing with all the behavioural fall out of so many disruptions to the kids. Now P's been back for a few days things are calming down - but all the kids are sick, possibly with the dreaded H1N1 flu.

I suspect H1N1, despite true flu symptoms, largely because they all have deep hacking coughs, very heavy colds but the bug has totally wiped them out and hit incredibly fast.
W, our toughest nut and healthiest, started getting sick on Wed evening, cheerfully sick on Thurs and in bed all day by Friday! He still looks like death but his energy is returning.

N, who was also going through another major non-eating fad, is about a day behind W - but is still very wiped out. We actually forgot to give him his ADHD meds 2 afternoons in a row and only realised when he started to get on everyone's nerves around 5:30 - 6pm! So that's how lethargic he is!

T only started to come down with it last night and has been coughing so hard he's been retching. I was up 5 times between 12:30 - 6:30am last night. Thankfully because of his tube we know we can keep him hydrated and fed, although with last night's retching I slowed his feed right down to 50mls/hr from his 80ms/hr.

But they don't usually get sick all at once, they like to play bug tag! And they've all got sick fast and heavily so it feels to me like something they haven't had before.

Anyway I'll try an update on all the kids indiviually as I can. W has an appointment with the paed surgeon on Tuesday as his reflux has kicked into hyperdrive again - to the extent he's been bringing up blood on occasion so I'll do a full update on him after that!

Anyway - will be back later as time and sick kids allow!