Guy Vacation, and Thanksgiving!

Guy's last day of work for 10 days was last Friday night. He took the whole week of Thanksgiving off and we have been praying for the snow to disappear so that we could make it up to the cabin for Thanksgiving. (Guy himself said he was praying for the snow to melt!) And by golly it did! It rained all night Friday and when he came home Saturday morning all the snow was gone. We were in the clear!

On Sunday night, after Nico and Evie and Avery went to bed, all four of us (Guy, Jeff, Allicia, Me), all played the board game called Pandemic. We hadn't had a game night in a while and it was fun to hang out with them and talk and laugh. Pandemic is a cooperative game, so we don't compete with each other but work together. I love it!

That night, Evie ended up with the stomach flu. I noticed they were washing her blanket at 3 AM in the morning and suspected something, and then confirmed it Monday morning. So we quarantined Nico and ourselves for Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday because then there was the fever and etc etc. Quarantined means that we held off on letting Nico play with Evie, and we all kind of stuck together in the clubhouse. Having Guy home was fun, he has switched to half-ish days for his time off, so stays up until 1 or 2 AM and then sleeps in until 11 AM. We've been enjoying his company even though what we did most of the time was just sit and watch cartoons and play games. We ventured out to go grocery shopping and go for walks.

I made stuffing for Thanksgiving on Wednesday, I was in charge of bringing it to the cabin because we are gluten free and we love Grandma Gohl's stuffing recipe and I make it every year. We use gluten free bread (we found the best local brand!! We go through 4-5 loaves a week!) I also bought a pre-baked gluten free pumpkin pie to bring as well.

But then Thursday morning showed up, and Nico was sick. He felt clammy and was extremely limp and tired after he got sick, so I propped him on the couch, hooked him up to the Zyto scanner, and cancelled the cabin Thanksgiving. Sad day for Nico, and for us all. I applied oils to Nico and within a few minutes he was pupping around playing with toys and asking for food. So I rethought our original diagnosis. There are times that Nico has thrown up randomly in the morning and is fine after that, so we thought it might just be a strange coincidence. After all, against my better judgement I DID make him scrambled eggs the night before, right before bed :)

He ate two bananas and some cheese over the next 4 hours and was fine and asking for more. I started up my computer to play the LIVE MST3K Turkey Day Marathon and then woke Guy up at 11 AM. We were all thankful that, even though we couldn't make it to the cabin, that we would instead get to eat ALL OF THE STUFFING OURSELVES. I baked up half of it in our oven and we sat down to eat. Guy and I sat at our table with MST3K playing and Nico sat on the floor with Donald Duck playing.

Here is what our Thanksgiving looked like in pictures:

I must admit, it was really great. It didn't seem like we were lacking at all. It seemed like Nico was experiencing a sore tummy all day. He only ate one bite of stuffing. He did get sick one more time so we went back to thinking that it actually is a bug. Essential oils made him feel better several times today and I am so grateful we have them.

When he isn't feeling well it's still hard to get a straight answer of whether or not he feels sick, but I get it, I don't like to admit when I feel sick too. Denying it makes me feel better :)

So, because there aren't many pictures this week, I uploaded a video for everyone. Just a short clip of Nico praying. He has taken over all prayers before eating. When I pray I say this: "Dear Jesus, thank you for this food and I pray it nourishes our bodies, in Jesus' name, Amen." So he asks to pray for the meal every time and copies me in my prayer but shortens it a little bit.