Alex's Fieldtrip

I was sick at the beginning of last week. I think I caught a little bug that Alex brought home from school the week before. He had to miss school the Thursday before. Joshua took a sick day from work on Tuesday to help me with Logan so I was could sleep and relax all day. I needed to get better because I had such a busy week, which is usually pretty normal around here, but most especially now since there are only a few more weeks until the end of the school year and the kids have so many activities from now until then. Alex had a field trip on Wednesday, Jessica had a Mother-Daughter night at "Activity Days" on Wednesday night, all the kids were out of school on Thursday, and Logan had several activities on Friday. I was still sluggish for the rest of the week, but I felt much better than Monday night and Tuesday. I most especially wanted to get better by Wednesday since I volunteered to chaperone the fieldtrip for Alex's 1st grade class to "Oakwoods Nature Center". Although I didn't feel quite right on Wednesday morning, I decided to go anyway.

I'm glad I did. Alex loved having me there. He held my hand the entire time we were on the mile-long nature walk and as we toured the nature center. He wanted to sit next to me during the 45-minute nature presentation and during our picnic. He also sat next to me on the bus as we went to and from the fieldtrip. I brought jolly ranchers for us to eat on the bus and he also loved playing thumb wars, arm wrestling and other silly games I thought of as we rode to and from the fieldtrip.

I picked up Logan from a friend's house (thank you, Megan!) and came home and crashed! I took a 2 hour nap before everyone got home from school. I took the kids to McDonalds because I wasn't up to making dinner that night; then ran off with Jessica to her Mother/Daughter night at the church. I'm just praying now that noone else in the house gets sick. It was pretty miserable!

But I had a great time with Alex on his fieldtrip! He is such a great kid!