Ok, so I’ve been struggling with keeping up photos/videos on here b/c well life. I decided that since I organize all the photos and videos into monthly online albums, and make a Christmas book and calendar each year with all our pics that it was prob best to use this platform more as a space to write about our adventures/life than show it. Plus sissy has been asking me to put recipes here and it will help me not lose all of my grammar (I just misspelled the word grammar and was auto corrected- oh the irony).

In the past I had the time to put pictures and then I would write multiple times per week but that time is nowhere to be found these days. It feels like time sped up and the weeks fly by and then I’m 2 months behind (see photos below from June- we are now in September). I guess 3 months behind.

At the moment 3 out of 5 of us are sick/recovering from a super fun virus that instantly made you feel like you got hit by a train. Yay. I think right before that virus decided to attack me I strained a muscle in my back working out. I’ve never tweaked my lower back before so that was new and super convenient b/c 2 days after that I came down with chills and fever. Then I felt better but my back was still weird and I decided to lift heavy weights again- smart. Actually I decided to do two weight lifting workouts back to back- super smart. So the following day I came down with chills/fever again, and my back felt like there was a little man inside just cranking a wheel tightening it. I was laid out for about 2 days and then the fever broke and I was left with this back ache that wouldn’t go away 🥳.

I found myself practicing yoga at 2:30 am in the dark room while Toobs slept to try and loosen up my back. Then I came upstairs around 4am when that failed, did another 45 min yoga for my back and binged physical therapy videos on how to help a tight back. This is when my little paddle ball came into play and saved the day! I laid on my mat and put the rubber ball beneath my lower back and just rolled side to side, up and down. For the first time in 2 weeks I could feel it loosen! So yea for the rest of the day I had 2 different sized balls and a roller and just went to town. My back isn’t tight anymore, but now if I touch the lower part it feels like I have a bruise 🤣.

Happy to be back vertical and even happier is Toobs who announced that she hasn’t had a good breakfast in a month…it was 2 days😂. Poor Toobs cried and asked if I was going to die. Rational. She was very concerned when I was sick and I guess I haven’t been sick since last summer thankfully and can’t really remember the last time I was laid out. Oh wait it was like 2 or 3 years ago b/c Toobs had to sleep in a separate room with Dada and is still traumatized about it. She claims she couldn’t sleep but she slept until like 10am that day 🤔.

Anyway, dada and the girls held down the house and then Sabi was victim #2. Hers hit with the chills, then body ache and of course after that went straight to her nose. She is the congestion queen. Whenever she gets sick it goes there, oh and she pukes. That happened too. Both her and Toobs must puke whenever they’re sick. Thankfully they’ve become vomit experts now and make it to the toilet. We watched some Stranger Things, slept, played Yahtzee, watched Family Feud and basically complained together.

Sissy went out on Sunday with friends and then walked to Ultimate Frisbee. Dada met her there to play at 6pm and by that time she had just started to feel the wrath of this virus. She still played b/c she’s sissy and competitive and also didn’t want to let her team down. She came home with 101 fever and then spent the next 24hrs laid out with the aches. She is into day 3 now and is pretty much back to normal other than lower back ache. Realllllllly hoping Dada and Toobs dodge this b/c well I don’t want them to be sick, but also we leave for Sao Jorge this afternoon so that would be pretty inconvenient.

Toobs is awake and just yelled her usual “I love you and I miss you and I want bubbbaaaa” so off I go to cuddle and read another chapter of Sweep. So the day begins 💪! xoxoxo