And we're going to add another one???

So the past week was like the downward fall from a fun high.... Sonshine had surgery on Dec. 26th to remove his tonsils & adenoids.  This was expected.  In fact, we had to change our fingerprinting appointment with USCIS to fit in this surgery (which was such a bummer, but God gave a peace that it was the right decision & we are currently awaiting our new appointment time.)
      Anyway, we knew this surgery was coming.  We got back from Christmas with Ryan's family on Christmas Eve just to have time on Christmas Day to be together & get used to the idea of surgery the next day (Sonshine tends to be my worrier.... don't ask where he got that....).  Of course the surgery day itself was a long day (would love to find one surgeon that actually starts on time...), but the recovery for this is what's longer.  He can't play actively for 2 full weeks  - can you imagine?  A boy not being able to play for 2 weeks??? This is a big struggle for my boy who since birth has been extremely active & is very sports oriented.  Plus we have worked hard to not make him "video-game" oriented which overall is great, but for the first time in our lives, I have wished that he had a DS or something like that to play with so he could pass the time!!  Anyway, beyond that restriction, he is on a semi-liquid diet for this week AND I have to sleep in with him for this week to monitor his breathing, pain, any bleeding, etc.  (plus make sure that he doesn't keep flopping over on his stomach with his neck stuck up on his pillow at some crazy angle....I'm sure they just forgot to mention that in the post-op instructions.)
And this is where the story gets a bit unbelievable.... After weeks of getting healthy & past walking pneumonia, strep throat & ear infections earlier in the month, we were there - or so I thought.... Enter Thursday.... Day 1 post-op.... My mom came to watch my older 2 so I could take Baby Girl to the doctor, & low & behold, a double-ear infection.  Again, no surprise really.... By Kid #3 (older 2 with tubes by 12 months), we have the ear infections symptoms of our kiddos down flat (because you know they don't follow "textbook ear infection symptoms" - that would be WAY too easy!)  In the meantime, I was fending off a sinus infection brought on by allergies (again, fairly typical for me).  But so far this is all expected stuff, so enter.... SURPRISE!!!
At 11:30pm that night, my Precious Girl is screaming for mommy in the hallway, so I run out of the twin bed that I'm sleeping on in Sonshine's room & she tells me she "spit up" in her room.... As I take a moment to process what that means & then start the walk to her room, she pukes right between her & I, blocking my way to her room.  "Okay," I think, "Just stay calm & try to get her to a bathroom."  So I reach over the puke (I'm in my bare feet & there is NO WAY I am going to step in that chunky stuff...) & I turn her towards our bathroom, which apparently stimulates her gag reflex again & she proceeds to vomit a circle, yes, a whole circle, around her body. And then she looks at me in one of those, "What are you going to do now Mommy?" looks, which of course means that I look back at her in my "I have no idea..." look.  (Don't you love those looks??  It's like this defeating, "You thought I had all the answers but I don't" feeling & it is so. incredibly. helpless...)  So I do the only thing I could think of in the moment - I start screaming for Ryan (who is sleeping down on the coach because he fell asleep to ESPN - I told him last night that this week of me sleeping with Sonshine means it's like his bachelor days!)  He comes running, but you know, what is he going to do??  There is puke in a circle around my daughter & he starts gagging before he even makes it up to the 2nd floor.  So that's it, decision time, & I just walk in it a bit, lift her up & over the circle so she can head to the bathroom & then proceed to gag my way through cleaning up puke in the hallway, then disinfecting the hallway twice, then making it to her bedroom where we find she has somehow managed to puke on both twin beds & even under one of the beds, so we clean that up & disinfect everything twice in there (with a trip to the cleaners for all her bedding), then I go back to the hallway to disinfect a 3rd time, not to mention disinfect myself somewhere along the way....  So after we cleaned it all up, Ryan gets one pukey kid, with a bucket, on the main floor....I have another with a cut-up throat & a bucket, in our twin beds... and there is a baby girl in her room alternating between coughs & cries & fending for herself.  And then I lay down in my "snug" twin bed & think "Really???  I can do this???  I'm not going to be overwhelmed by this?? ........And I'm going to add to this???"
Hmmmmmmm......
Yep.  I am.... And the truth is, I can't wait....  Bring it on!  (And if You don't mind sending a little more immunity our way in the meantime, that would be an added bonus.....)