It’s a HAPPY day!
Today is a happy day in the Mellen house. Macey was finally able to return to school today!! Poor girl has been really sick this week and missed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from school. This is unprecedented for her as she has never missed three days in a row prior to this. However, she came down with a stomach virus on Sunday evening and it kept her down for a few days. She felt puny, but overall okay on Monday, but still had to miss school due to the virus and fever. On Tuesday, she felt considerably worse. She slept almost all day which is not like Macey at all. Her fever broke on Tuesday afternoon and she started to feel a bit better. Her appetite and energy levels were still way down, but she was at least feeling somewhat better. Wednesday was a much better day. Macey still couldn’t return to school because she had not been fever free for 24 hours AND she was still not feeling 100% yet. She ate a little bit better yesterday and even had more energy to play which was a beautiful thing to see. This morning, she ate a good breakfast and felt like going back to school. YAY!!!
Macey was so excited to return to school. She absolutely loves school and was sad to miss most of this week. She was VERY ready to get back into the swing of things today. Hopefully, she’ll have a wonderful day today. Today is one of her two weekly PE days, so she was quite excited to get to jump rope there this afternoon. We told her that if she isn’t feeling well, to let her teachers know. We’re sure she will let them know if she starts to feel badly, but we’re also sure she’ll try her best to get to jump rope if at all possible. 
In the grand scheme of things, this nasty “bug” was short-lived; however, it was rough and we’re glad that it is GONE now. Macey hasn’t felt that bad in a very long time and we are so grateful that she is well now. Praise God!!
In another happy report, Mariana and I are going to go to CostCo this morning. I cleaned out and defrosted our deep freeze yesterday, so now we actually have room for storage. I won’t say just how overdue that freezer cleaning was, but…it was LONG overdue. Since I’ve been couponing and trying to “stock up”, the space in the freezer is much needed. Hopefully we won’t let it get overloaded this time.
Hope y’all have a HAPPY day today,
Kelly