The Flu, Again

I'm recording this story because we laugh about it now, but it didn't feel so funny at the time.

 Here we are again with the flu. We thought it was passed us since we spent Christmas and New Years with it. Everything gets covered with blankets and there are lots of snuggles.

 We thought everyone was feeling good and getting over it so we decided to go up to the cabin for the weekend. We were only a few houses away from the cabin when Abigail unleased her sickness inside the car. Once Derek had shoveled a parking spot for us and a path to the cabin he came back with towels for us to start containing the mess. He tried to get the heat turned up so we could leave the sick-mobile and get cleaned up and put the kids to bed. However, with the sub-zero temperatures the furnace wasn't working and since that hadn't been keeping the cabin warm a pipe had frozen.

 So Plan B: check in to Cronk's Motel in Newaygo for the night. Tuck the kids in and start scrubbing out the carseat in the bathroom, then call the repairmen the next morning. Hey, we were trying to make a memory, right? Well, we did.