Yesterday Isaac woke up feeling nauseous.  Turned out he spent the whole day heaving and miserable and not keeping anything down.  He spent the day on the couch, sleeping a lot, and being very easy to live with.

This morning Isaac was feeling a little better, and he has been able to keep food and drink down.  He hasn’t eaten much, and his energy level is still very low, and his gut hurts from so much “exercise” yesterday.  But he does seem a little better.  I’m getting spoiled having such a mellow Isaac around.  I’ll know he’s feeling better when his siblings start complaining and telling on him.

Michael has been fighting a tickly throat and some congestion for several days, so it wasn’t a great surprise when he woke up this morning feeling quite a bit worse with those symptoms.  He spent a long time in bed, but the noise of his rambunctious children (yes, his children!) finally drove him from bed.  By this evening it seems that Michael is doing ok, and is at least not any worse, so I’m hopeful that tomorrow will be better for him.

This morning I slipped away to the farmer’s market with Miguel and Amelia. We walked all around, and I bought some sweet corn, tomatoes and beets.  The sweet corn was especially for Michael.  The tomatoes were for me, and the beets were for Laura.  When I got home, I cooked 8 ears of the corn, thinking that Michael and Isaac wouldn’t be eating any, but Michael could not resist the lure of fresh, local sweet corn.  It was nice that he perked up at the sight of the corn.

Late this afternoon Michael decided that a little exercise would probably benefit both he and Isaac, so he dragged them both off to Walmart to walk around a bit.  They had a short list from me, so that helped direct their shopping a little.  Isaac finally begged off the exercise and went back to the car to rest, and Michael finished his shopping alone.

While they were gone, Luke and I baked brownies.  This is my second attempt to compare homemade brownies with the Aldi box mix for brownies.  The first time I tried a recipe I found online called “Best Brownies Ever”.  Sounded promising, but in the final taste tests, the “best” brownies lost to the Aldi brownies.  This time I put up an older recipe I’ve had for a while called “Chewy Cocoa Brownies”.  These stood more of a chance, because they were a recipe I got from a friend years ago.  Sure enough, the contest is much closer this time around.  We haven’t yet declared a winner.  Aldi sure makes a good box mix!

Tomorrow only some of us will go to church.  Not sure who quite yet.  Depends on how Michael is feeling in the morning.

Today was a slower day for all of us, but it was nice.  I napped, cooked, and also sorted through a few more piles of things.  I sure am looking forward to getting our stuff all situated!