I have no idea where I found this flu...no one that I have heard of recently has had it, but it's probably better this way. If I could trace the germ-sharer down it may end bad for both of us!! This is like the evil grandmother of all flus...or maybe it's the fact that I'm 34 weeks pregnant while getting it but wow it has been rough!
Thursday morning I cleaned a clients house with my friend Jen- she is going to substitute for me while I'm on maternity leave. Well, that went fine besides my normal discomfort of cleaning this far along. I got home and laid down for a nap because my inlaws were going to be visiting that evening- I already had dinner in the crockpot and just needed to do a few finishing touches on the house. Well when I woke up from my nap, I felt worse than before I laid and down and noted having a bad headache. Ugh.
I got up and finished the house and felt pretty awful, but I thought I was just tired. Around 6 our family got here and we enjoyed a great time with the 17 of us. Grandpa Montoro brought bubbles for the kids and it was a huge hit with baby peter!! By the time dinner ended I could barely put weight on my feet, I was like whatt in the world?!? So for the rest of the night I sat, and probably looked like a lazy bum but I was having a hard time even being in an upright position. We all said our goodbyes around 10 and when our house was quiet again I realized how awful I was really feeling. And the thought crossed my mind. The flu. I think I'm getting the flu. Haven't had one in years but you never forget those aches from a full-blown flu! By the time I was ready for bed I was so achy in my legs that I had to sit up and try to sleep the whole night between struggling with my high fever and very angry heartburn. Drag that on for four days (and counting) and add miserable headache, horrible eye aches, ear pain, sore throat, a cough that pretends I still have abs..., a scare on Friday because poor traumatized chloe was hardly moving. It's been quite the flu.
Plus baby peter was up a ton on Saturday night and seems to have now caught this horrible thing also. Which seemed like a bad thing. Until Sunday happened. Sunday we both stayed in our Jammies all day and coughed our lungs out together. We got checked on often by daddy who has been the BEST nurse through all of this. Constantly providing drinks, food, medicine, comfort, even pretty flowers!, cleaning the house, and watching little son so I could sleep.
Anyway, Sunday proved to be a really special day for me and my little guy. He isn't super snuggly for the most part, but when he's sick he wants his mama and he wants to cuddle. This worked well because I was laying on the couch all day anyway. We did some quiet activities- like reading together, looking through pictures, bubbles, him honing his harmonica skills (a less than quiet activity), but by evening time all he wanted to do was cuddle. And we did. And it was then it hit me....this may be one of my little 21 month year old's and my last opportunity to do this before we introduce a new little cuddle bug into the picture. That made me super sentimental. And a little overwhelmed...how do mommies survive illness with 2 kids?!?! Scary thought. It was then I decided to savor the sick moments, and every moment of these last few precious weeks of being a mommy to one sweet little boy before the excitement and beautiful chaos of bringing home another baby permanently changes our family dynamic. I won't let the flu steal that from me! 
