Not sure where to begin

I am still here, and certainly never intended to go this long between posts. But, many of my intentions in the last two weeks have not panned out, and that is just life. First of all, I've been working A LOT. Again, I'm grateful for this opportunity, and it turns out that I LOVE being a substitute teacher. Sometimes though, I wish I could allow myself to say no. I want this to be a part-time job, but I'm not allowing myself the freedom to keep it part-time hours. Anyway, that has occupied most of the days since I've last written. Friday morning I awoke to JC and vomiting. I was supposed to spend the day at the hospital with family because my grandmother was having her hip replaced. Instead, I was home with a sick kid. I knew my grandma was in good hands and my sister was with the family to help my dad get around, so I allowed myself to see the "upside" that having a sick kid also meant that I was home and able to get some cleaning and Christmas chores accomplished. It also worked out well that I was able to be home when the call came from my in-laws that my brother-in-law was in the hospital and they were planning surgery that evening. I was able to contact my husband, and after much discussion it was decided that he did not need to make the long drive, but they would be in touch in case things changed. THANK GOODNESS he didn't go, because Saturday morning JC took a definite turn for the worse. While she had not vomited a great deal on Friday, she hadn't eaten anything since Thursday evening, and by Saturday morning was complaining of severe abdominal pain. My husband took her to Children's urgent care and after some anti-nausea medicine she began to feel better. She had a popsicle and they sent her home. The popsicle came back up as soon as she was home, and she was crying about the pain. My girl has a really high pain tolerance so we took no chances and off to Children's e/r we went. After some blood work and a urinalysis they determined it was still just the stomach virus, and she felt so much better by the time she got home that evening. The next morning she woke up feeling great and called several relatives so that they could hear her voice and hear for themselves how much better she felt. Unfortunately, after making those calls the pain began to return, and after an hour I was calling my husband home from church so we could go back to the e/r. This time many more tests were run, and more iv's were given. After everything, it still seemed to be nothing more than a stomach virus, and that does indeed seem to have been the case. They even mentioned that several additional cases had come into the e/r with similar symptoms. She got back home late Sunday evening, and we were all pretty exhausted. We kept her home from school Monday, and I've worked every day since then. As far as the rest of the family, my grandmother has been moved to rehab and will be there another nine days. She is really doing great! My brother-in-law has also been released from the hospital and is back at his house. We are very grateful that about two months ago he moved to within blocks of my in-laws, instead of being two hours away from them. And, with the exception of being exhausted after her long ordeal over the weekend, JC has felt normal again. I'm still trying to get caught up on the things that didn't get done while JC was so sick, but although it was dramatic for awhile, we are very blessed!