I'm feeling very excited about my Saturday this May long weekend!
First, some backstory. Somehow my baby got hand foot mouth disease. May 9 she got rather cranky, wasn't eating proper, and as I saw her two incisor teeth poking out, I figured she was teething. Normal stuff. Saturday, a few days later, I noticed a bit of a rash on her bum, but not the normal diaper rash. It looked like irritation. I figured it was likely from getting some grass in her diaper as we were outside a lot that week. Sunday, after church, one of the kids told me that they noticed some strange marks on her feet. Little red blisters. I hadn't seen them during her bath, they seemed to crop up overnight, and the kids love helping her get ready and dressed her for church for me. Later that evening, I saw a couple start up on her hands. Yup. I really don't know where she could have caught it as we were home the entire time. Never have we had this in the house before. Thankfully, at church, she didn't really want to play, just cuddle with me, so I really hope nobody else caught it from her!
The following day, my son started complaining of issues. Got a fever. Headaches. My 3 year old the day after that. They had bumps on their hands (not so much the feet, though) and I think in their mouth although hard to see. My 10 year old got in her mouth pretty bad. Tuesday night she showed me her throat and yup. Her hands as well. She got sick a few days later. So even though it was the long weekend and my husband had it off, we couldn't very well go anywhere with other people.
It was a stay at home kind of weekend.
Next was the van and truck. Both were filthy. Cleaned the interior of both together with help from the kiddos. Then my husband washed the outside of them. Yay! So nice having clean vehicles again!
When parking the van, I noticed how bad the garage was. Really noticed. This is a job I've wanted to do for years, but most of the stuff in there is for the farm, so I really didn't know what to do with it all, so I didn't tackle it. I decided that this was the weekend! Two of my girls decided to help me. We moved all the siding, house reno pieces, ducts, etc into the area above the garage where I've seen plenty more of that stuff. Still need to clean that area up, though. Moved tools and bolts to the farm workshop. Wood has a place in the machine shed specifically for wood, and I've been moving all the scrap pieces I've been seeing in random places to that location as I find them. Made piles for trash, things to keep on the shelf, etc. Wiped off all the shelves and put things back. I now have 2.5 empty shelves (except for an old scale I couldn't lift)! And that is after putting all our chairs, umbrella strollers, sleds, etc on there! The side area is cleared except for the buckets for the collustrum company, and they are so much easier to get now, too! And we swept it all out! We didn't get the one area with the old truck, though. The battery is fried, and a rusty bolt snapped while my husband was trying to get it out, so we need to tow it. There is stuff there, but I cannot reach it currently, so I'm leaving that for now.
I am so very happy with all the work we got done! Today I was gifted some tomato starts from my brother in law and his fiancé (so excited! They're getting married soon!), and he helped me get a bunch of tubs from in the barn drilled and filled with dirt/sand/manure so I could plant! I spent a bunch of time working on that, and the chicken coop today.
Well, that's all for now! Been really happy with the beautiful weather we've had recently! SO nice to get outside again!
