A Big Recap

Tim has been off work since December 23rd and besides the flu hitting our house we have been busy busy busy getting stuff done. I promise to post Christmas pictures once I have edited them but for now here is a big recap of random things. 

Rascal woke up Sunday the 22nd with a high fever and a headache. We were getting ready for church and I knew that I needed to stay home with him. The only symptoms he had was his headache and fever and his fever was harder to get down than normal. He got plenty of rest Sunday and we treated the symptoms. Sunday night his temp got to 104 which is pretty high for him and I worried he had the flu. I took him into see his dr and rule out the flu. He was feeling fine and really really didn't want to go to the dr but I went ahead and took him. Sure enough he had the flu. The dr and I were both shocked since he was acting fine and not running any fever. They gave us a rx for Tamiflu and prepared us for the next 4-5 days (they said it would get much worse before he got better). Well we were so pleased that he didn't get worse and he was back to 100% by Tuesday. We stopped the tamiflu because it was pretty clear he didn't need it. 

(Rascal on Monday) 

I am pretty certain that our natural remedies is what kicked the flu's butt and none of the rest of us got it. On Sunday night I made Rascal drink some green tea with honey, turmeric and cinnamon mixed in. He said it didn't taste good but all those have such great healing properties that he drank it quick to get it over with. 

We continued giving him kefir (but we moved it up to two doses a day) and the apple cider vinegar. He got daily epsom salt baths too which he really liked. 

As for the rest of us, we washed our hands like crazy, began taking elderberry syrup and apple cider vinegar and Tim and I also took two doses of  Oscillococcinum. Between taking all of that the rest of us stayed well and no one else got it. 

 I will post more on the natural remedies on the Mondays to come. I have to give my best friend Angelia a great big thanks. She was on the phone with me helping decide what to get and I owe her big time for her advice.

While Rascal had the flu and for a few days afterwards, we all stayed home and made sure the flu was indeed gone. Poor Lucy was going just as stir crazy as we were. She would sit and stare out the back door whining at the squirrels playing in the yard. 

Christmas Eve we skipped our annual church service and stayed home just to make sure everyone was clear of the flu. It was SO HARD to keep Rascal from running around so we all sat down and played games. It was a lot of fun. 

Sweet girl is growing up so fast! She is always being a mother to anyone who will let her. 

Sometimes this is cute but most of the time is it annoying. 

She sure is a cutie! 

I pulled my sewing machine out for some Christmas projects at the beginning of December. I love love love to sit down and sew. Here are a few of the things I made: 

Super hero capes for a dear friend's grandsons 

Toddler infinity scarf

A diaper and wipe pouch 

Some baby doll diapers for Baby A's baby dolls. 

A dress for Baby A's baby doll 

Some pillows and hand towels 

I actually made half a dozen hand towels for gifts to teachers and I just don't have pictures of them. 

This isn't a sewing project but I took an empty makeup compact and filled it with nail polish and let it dry. Now Baby A has some pretend makeup to play with.