What a Week, and it's Only Wednesday Morning

Sick kids.
War games.
Evacuations.

That's been my week. Samantha brought home a cold from school. When Sam gets sick, she does it well. She's been congested, had red eyes, throwing up, fever, all the fun stuff. She passed it to Andi, so they have been sick together. And, Riley has something. He isn't sick like the girls are, but he has thrown up twice, but only at bedtime.

There is base wide training right now and lucky Jamie, he is working nights. So he was trying to get on that schedule this weekend. I hate this schedule. I feel like I don't get to see him. And since it has been a year since he's been on shift, it's very weird to be going to bed with out him home. At least it's almost over.

And the hi-light of the week, we were evacuated from our house yesterday morning. They were drilling at the end of the street, for some reason, where somebody had improperly marked the gas lines and hit a pipe. And of course, it is almost always windy here, so it was blowing down the street. We are just three houses from where they were drilling, so we had to get out fast. I got the joy of waking up Jamie, and rushing the kids out the door. We drove over to a spot where we could watch the road blockades from a distance. After some time, Jamie called the fire department to get an update and found out there was another gas leak close to where we were. Then the kids started getting bored. So we moved to a new spot, back near the house and we could actually see the gas "spraying" out of the pipe. After a few more minutes, the kids get bored again. Then we decided to go to the fire station, through the war game area, so the kids could walk around the tv room and and watch some tv. Nothing like a grumpy husband that needs sleep, two sick kids and a baby that is wanting to eat soon (I did grab formula and a bottle before we left). We were there for about 30 minutes, before they told us we could go home. We were gone about two hours. Then we got to think about how long we would be with out gas (stove, oven, hot water, heat...) while they fixed the pipe. That was another couple hours.

At least everything is over or will be soon. Always fun at the Mason house.