Sad, sick boys

Both of our boys have been fighting some type of bug lately. It started out with a full week of MAJOR blowout NASTY diapers. Bedding and toddler clothing laundry multiple times a day, (forget even thinking about doing Mommy and Daddys laundry) multiple loads of cloth diaper laundry, and even getting puked on once. Not fun! J had self potty trained but had to be put back into diapers for a while. The next week was a week full of coughs and runny noses. J spiked a fever on a Wednesday-Thursday. Thankfully it didn't get too high. A on the other hand.... He spiked a fever on Sunday afternoon. Sunday night it got high but we didn't get all that concerned about it. Monday however was a different story. He woke up with no fever but by lunchtime he had spiked again. We kept pushing liquids. He wasn't all that interested in food. Not to long later I decided to check his temp. It had started to creep past 102. In the end we think it stayed around the 103.5 range. We ended up giving him a tepid bath and then an oil rub to try to keep him hydrated and reduce the temp a bit. It worked for a while but then his body decided it wasn't done burning off whatever bug he had so the temp went back up. A lot of prayers went up that his body would fight off the bug and that the temp would come down. We kept an eye on him and by bedtime it seemed that the temp had leveled off. It was still high, but it wasn't acting like it wanted to shoot high again. We put the boys down to bed and I put some GOOT on their feet. When I went in to check on them when my husband and I went to bed his fever had gone down quite a bit. By morning he was back to normal. He ate a good breakfast, drank most of his water, played, napped, ate a good lunch and is back down to nap again. So far no fever! Thank you Lord! This Mommy was really praying that that was enough fever to get the job done. He is back to his cheerful self.
They still have the coughs but that is it.
In other news... I got caught back up on laundry (and I didnt have to do it all by hand!), the light in the back entry is working again, my bathroom is almost ready for the final coat of paint (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), I got some chicken stock made yesterday and today, and the snow is melting! A lot of blessings if you ask me. I bet I could come up with a whole lot more too! Thank you Lord
God Bless!

Introductions first

Hi! I am a stay-at-home wife to my husband and mommy to our 2 little blessings. My Husband is the Pastor of a church in a small town in rural Iowa. I Love where we are at, I am a country girl myself. Then again, so is my husband. The Lord has placed us where He wants us to be and has given us peace and a love for where we are.
Our 2 blessings are 15 months and 2 months old. Our oldest, J, has been so much fun to have around. He is still learning that "no" really does mean- "no" every time it is said- but he does a pretty good job most of the time at remembering. He can muster up the cutest faces so that it is hard to keep a strait face when he does something wrong.
Our youngest, A, was a whopping 10 lbs 11.6 oz at birth. I have had natural births with both my boys..no drugs while in labor.. and I must say that my second went easier, faster and all that goes with it than my first was. I did end up in surgery after my first because of a retained placenta but Praise the Lord this time there were no problems at all! He is such a cute little (or should I say BIG) guy and has in the last 2 weeks been smiling up at me even when he is just hanging out in my sling. He has been lots of fun too!
We cloth diaper our 2 and I am starting to think about going semi full time with it. Right now we use disposables whenever we are out of the home but since I have started to sew my own fitted diapers I have been taking them out with cloth on more. I went on a week trip with them recently and used my cloth while away from home on vacation for the first time!!! It went GREAT!!! Next time I don't think there will even be hesitation about using cloth while on vacation!
I better get. I was in the middle of a project before I took a quick break. Just a forwarning, I am a wife and Mommy first and will only post as I have time.
God Bless