The Great Sickness aka Valentines Day

This year's Valentine's day was marked by the great sickness in our household. Josh was the first one to get sick, right after our trip to Vegas. Next the sickness spread to me, Brian, and Xander respectively. Josh rebounded very quickly with just a day of fever and a few days of congestion and cough. Xander had a fever for about 3 hours. Brian and I were not so lucky. Here is a copy of my personal blog post on the day:

Here are the ingredients for a wonderful Valentine's day:
1-You and your spouse wake up in the middle of the night (at separate times) with raging fevers. 2-Feel a little better in the morning determined to carry out your day's fun plans.
3-Find you 11 year old has also caught the nasty cold that is travelling through your house.
4-Cancel your plans because you don't want to be over 2 hours away from your sick child.
5-Have a stroke of genius and decide that a movie is in order to salvage the day.
6-Take some more cold medicine in hopes to keep your fever down. Remind your husband to also take his meds. And make sure your 11 year old is also medicated.
7-Go to the movie and proceed to be jabbed in the side by the gentlemen sitting next to you.
8-Make up snide comments in your head about said man who is at the movie all alone.
9-Realize your fever is coming back and think that your stroke of genius was really just plain stupid.
10-Barely make it to your car because your whole body aches.
11-Take some ibuprofen and head straight to bed after seeing that 11 year old was feeling better.
12-Tell your feverish hubby to also go to bed on your way up the stairs.
13-Sleep for a glorious 2 hours until a little voice tells you that dinner is done.
14-Come downstairs to a lovely meal of rib-eye steaks, baked potatoes, and corn.
15-Remember that the only semi-healthy person in your house is 13 years old and cannot drive. 16-Know that your very sick and feverish husband went to the store and prepared a delicious meal instead of resting.
17-Notice your husband also bought your favorite steak sauce.
18-Get a cute little stuffed animal from your very sweet kids.
19-Your husband bought you a box of "Turtles" because one of your favorite phrases is "holy turtles".
20-Become humbled and grateful to have such a fabulous family that will put aside their own ailments to make a special night for you.

Anyone that knows me also knows I am not a touchy feely mushy lovey dovey girl. I do not require love notes, chocolates, flowers, or hearing "I love you" all the time. I haven't heard the words "I love you" once today, but my family's actions make that very apparent. I always say actions speak louder than words. Even though it was not conventional, and we are all sick, I wouldn't change a thing. It really was the BEST Valentine's Day ever. Thanks to all my special guys! I love you!!!