Surreal Few Days

The last four days have been some of the strangest ever for this Bowes Family.

It all started with a call from a realtor on Thursday morning wanting to show our house on Saturday at 2pm. This in-and-of-itself isn't all that strange, although it does tend to send our household into an extended, unusual frenzy. For two-and-a-half days we dropped everything else we had planned and went to plan B: shooing away large dust bunnies, stuffing closets with things that wouldn't normally go into closets, making fourteen dogs disappear, etc.

But the surreal part of the past four days is that most of the members of our family of nine have been hit hard with the most unpleasant bug I think we have ever had in our home. (Certainly according to Lydia, this is the worst sickness she has EVER had!) It has driven our usually energetic, hard-working children straight to bed . . . for days. Each child has been hit with varying degrees of discomforts and fatigue, but for the most part, it has really wiped everyone out.

It is as if our little world here in our neck-of-the-woods has stopped for a time!

And the house has been eerily quiet:(!

We'd sure be grateful for your prayers for the quick recovery of our beloved, boisterous blessings and the restoration of our bustling Bowes household!