We've been hit!

After a great weekend with the kids.  Our little floating home has been hit with the Norovirus.  It is sweeping around  Bermuda plaguing people of all ages with vomiting and diariah.  Poor Marley came into our bed Monday night and promptly woke up by vomiting on my pillow at 5am.  She threw up 12 more times while I kept her home that Tuesday. Poor thing. She couldn't keep anything down.  Not to mention it was Valentines Day and she missed her party at school.  She told me all day "mummy see, I ate those crackers, I feel fine... can I go to school now?" By 12:30 she had done what we thought was her last deed and took a late nap.  We had made reservations at Salt Rock Grill a nice local sushi place nearby.  She was so pumped to go to a resturant with "her family" for Valentines Day.  Just as we were about to head out the door all dolled up; it hit again.  After the course she said, wiping her face, "I feel fine, we can still go to the resturant!". 
Mark and I felt so horrible for her, we didn't want her to think it was her fault we couldn't go so we set up a new plan.  We packed both kids into strollers and swaddled them with many many blankets.  (Marley had an extra bib just in case) We walked round to Bone Fish a Dockyard resturant and ordered takeout before a little walk.  Early on in our walk Marley continued to tell us she was fine and we shold go back to the resturant.  Since it was cold and started to sprinkle we turned back around and had a drink there while our takeout was prepared.  Marley got a rose from the bar tender and cherries in her water.  Not quite the romantic Valentines dinner expected but actually maybe a little more fun!
Today I kept her home just in case and although she didn't eat all day she didn't vomit either.  Finally at 5:00pm she filled her empty belly with a P&J sandwich and was back to her old self.  Unfortunatly after dropping off the laundry and going for a long walk around Dockyard for fresh air we came home and found Daddy laid up with all the symptoms.
Jacob and I have quarantined ourselves off in the galley/ living room on seperate couches.  Hes finally getting into a routine (slept though on Sat, Sun, and Tues nights) so I don't want to get him sick now.  Hopefully it doesn't pass to us!!


"Nothing says I love you more than being thrown up on!"



My favorite things

So Jacob and I have the same favorite spot on the boat.  Looking out of the hatch above Mark and I's bunk.  However we like them differently.  He likes it when the windscoop is up and the brezze blows in tickling him and creating an ora of blue in the cabin.  I like it at night when the lights from Bone Fish Resturant twinkle on the waves between us and them, the reflection can be seen on the glass as I lay in bed looking out beyond the hatch at the stars above.  LOVE

Yet again the wind has picked up and although dad is on a Boys Night Out it doesn't look like we will be going out again this weekend :(  I am sick of the weekends being windy.  As soon as the weather gets nice I am ready to cast off the lines and head to the open ocean and start home schooling from there.  Maybe we should wait for an engine first.  How can I feel stranded when we live on a boat?! I will post once the weather improves because lately these posts have been more about my mini dramas than babies on boats.