Poo-Poo Surprise

Before we decided to make RVing a full time way of life, I mentioned to Jeff that the one event that would be pure misery is if we all got the stomach flu while living in the RV. Well, for our initiation of having our family together in our new RV, that is exactly what happened—except our entire family didn’t get it---just Jeff and I...and on the same day. Unfortunately, we brought back a souvenir from Huntsville…..the same stomach flu that Anna, Harold and Gail had. I didn’t sleep well Sunday night and awakened to frequent bathroom visits on many occasions. Not exactly the way I wanted to start out our first week in our new home together. Praying to the porcelain God is never a pleasant activity but doing so with an RV toilet is even less desirable.

I can’t say that suffering with this would’ve been any more pleasurable being in a large home. However, Jeff and I had the good fortune of having this hit us both on the same day. Not a good thing when there is only one bathroom and both of us wanted nothing except to collapse in our bed. The really difficult part was that the girls wanted to be outside playing and they can not make their own dinner, etc. Both Jeff and I were extremely weak after not being able to hold down any food all day and we simply felt awful. Again, this wouldn’t have been any better if we were at our other home because with or without the extra bathrooms and space, we were both sick at the same time and that misery doesn’t dissipate with more square footage. It is times like this that I have a renewed respect for single parents.

The good thing is this stomach flu seems to be a 24-hour type. So the misery is great but for only a short time. Thank God for small blessings.

Of course, you would think "pooping" would be the last thing that Jeff would want to discuss at this point but as usual, he has sought out a place to use his talents. His employer is hosting a picnic for the employees in October. They have asked for volunteers from the employees to enter an ice cream contest. Jeff suggested that we enter with the following flavor: "I thought we could make some chocolate ice cream and call it Chocolate Diaper Surprise…with it being served in diapers! I think we would win…or at least have a lot of ice cream to our selves."
Here is the label for his proposed ice cream concoction. I'll leave it to your imagination as to what my rebuttal was to his suggestion. I do agree with him...I think we may be the only ones to partake of this ice cream.

There won't be anything exciting to share for this weekend. We plan to stay in town through this weekend to allow Rachel and Anna to get "settled" and to further allow Jeff and I to get an established routine going (not to mention we need to recoup from this illness). Rachel and Anna started their pre-k classes yesterday so they are getting accustomed to that new routine and their new teachers. I think we could all use a good solid week and a weekend of resting before traveling again. However, I have to say that Rachel and Anna are doing extremely well thus far.

Our next trip is planned for September 7-12. We'll be heading to Tennessee for our annual trip to Gatlinburg and our hike up Mt. LeConte to stay at the lodge.