Sunday: life

Isaac got a new mattress.  He probably should have gotten one quite a while ago.  Horizon sat right down on the old mattress and wouldn't move, even as the children were jumping all around him.  I was a bit surprised, actually.  (And it isn't one of those fancy movement isolation mattresses.  It was just a cheap one from a box store.)

We played a game throughout the day.  Everyone wears masks though since I am still in my 10 day COVID window.  It is the compromise that we've come up with to still do stuff together while trying to stay safe.

Saturday: meh

Today was rather meh.  I was a bit out of sorts and not feeling as well as I have the last several days.  (I'm not convinced it is due to COVID, but who knows.)

A friend did gift us with several pre-made meals from Sam's Club.  With the meh day today it was wonderful to not have to think about what to have for dinner. 

COIVD days: lovies

Joshua lost Grey Bear, as happens about once a week.  I told him to recheck his bed, but he was unconvinced.  After looking in other places and not finding him we went to our backup: Snowfoot.

Snowfoot is my lovie.  We will gloss over the fact that Joshua has tons of special stuffed animals in his bed, apparently Joshua needs a best-loved lovie.

Surprise surprise, Grey Bear was in Joshua's bed.  So Joshua put Snowfoot in my temporary bed to keep me company.  It's been nice to snuggle him again.

Wednesday: our life

I continued to feel better today.  I woke up in the middle of the night with a crazy sore throat so took some medicine, but that was all for the day.  I didn't feel amazing in the afternoon, but dealt with it.

These are our COVID tests.  There is one box (from the government) that I recently recycled that isn't shown.  It sure would be nice if I could always get the same brand, but they keep selling out.  Or don't come in "bulk" (if 5 tests can be considered bulk).  So instead we read the directions every dumb time someone needs a test, which is frequently this week.

 

Horizon tried to help with my puzzle.  I told him he wasn't being very helpful but he didn't seem to care.

Tuesday: same ol', same ol'

Nothing all that exciting today.  Everyone else is still testing negative for COVID, so the kids are still doing their stuff.

I'm not feeling 100%, but not doing to badly either.  I have been continuing to take some ibuprofen, but less than yesterday.  Isaac decided to make me a smoothie, probably because I said they really hit the spot yesterday.

I also got out the camping plates yesterday.  The reasons are two-fold.  1) We didn't have enough dishes because I had been sick the day before.  (I know, someone else could have dealt with the dishes but it just doesn't happen easily.  We have a system.)  2) We've been running out of dishes a lot lately.  I'm not sure why.  Anyway, I think I'll keep the camping dishes in the normal rotation to help.  And they're such fun colors!

 

Sunday/Monday: a good run

Long story short, I have COVID.

Yesterday I woke up with a low grade fever.  I had a negative COVID test.  The fever didn't go away all day.  Usually I can take some medicine and I bounce back, but the whole day I felt like I was struggling with my temperature, even when I was on Ibuprofen and Tylenol.  I felt like a whimp because the fevers weren't high, but they made me grumpy all the same.  The bridge of my nose hurt along with my eyes.

Anyway, I asked the person who I think I got the fever from to retest for COVID in the afternoon, and they came back positive.  At that point I assumed that I had COVID.  When I retested Monday morning, it came back positive.

That being said, I felt much better Monday.  I still had a few aches, but no fever.  At least, not that I know of - I did take some Ibuprofen throughout the day.

Sunday night we got smoothies, because that's always what I feel like when I'm sick.  I finished mine after the kids went to bed and it was perfect.  So Ben gave me the rest of his. <3

Honestly, this is a rather good time to get COVID.  I don't have anything big planned for the next 10 days.

Thursday - Saturday: camping

We went camping with Nathan and his family for a few days.  It's been a while since I've camped in a tent, but really, it was wonderful.

It helped that it didn't rain and the bugs weren't too bad.  At least, not for me.  The kids ended up with a few itchy bites, but we weren't swatting at bugs all the time.  

We met up in Big Rapids for a late lunch.  The kids immediately started being their crazy selves together.

We got the tents set up and the kids ran around for a while while Nathan and I pretended to read but really just talked to each other.  After dinner we went to see the sunset.  It was on a rocky beach and rock-lover Isaac was in heaven.

Friday the kids woke up early but not too early.  The quiet hours at the campground surprisingly ended at 6am, but we attempted to keep everyone quiet until 8am with mixed results.  After breakfast we went to a nature reserve for a hike.

Watching for sticks that they threw in the river on the other side.

I liked all their colors in the green forest.

In the afternoon we went to the beach.  We walked out to the sandbar and Isaac was entertained by going back to the shore and bringing us rocks on the sandbar.  After we got out because we were getting to cold we sat on the beach, but I didn't last very long.  It was hot.  And sunny.  I took Joshua back to the campsite and we had some hammock time.  Isaac actually followed soon afterwards and read. He read a lot more than I was expecting this vacation, but I loved it.

We went back to the beach right at sunset, but didn't spend as long there.

There was a small night hike to throw away the garbage.

Saturday.

We were planning on leaving Saturday afternoon.  Everyone slept in a bit in the morning, which was helpful.  Making a fire from the embers was a fun project right after breakfast.

We went on a hike on the campground trails in the morning, had an early lunch, and went to the beach.  There was some shade this time so I was much happier, but this time Joshua was ready to leave first.  That was fine; I needed to start packing anyway.  The drive home was uneventful.

It was a lovely vacation and I was happy to camp...really camp...again.