SICK

I'm tired of being sick. Well, not just me. All of us.

It's definitely more than coincidence that our house has been plagued with some sort of virus or illness for the last 6 weeks ... about the time we started the new daycare. We've loved it there, but my kids are learning how to share more than just books and toys. Before enrollment, JP and AA had only been on one course of antibiotics in their life.

Of course, this is the peak of cold and flu season too. And it hasn't been that bad. I was sick in January for nearly two weeks with a nasty head cold. AA came down with the adenovirus earlier this month ... I've never seen her so miserable. Fevers around 104; red eyes, and nonstop yuck. On her final day of recovery, JP picked up the virus. His symptoms seemed to last longer than hers, so I finally looked in his mouth on day seven. Poor kid had tonsils the size of blackberries and the color of pond scum. He was on antibiotics for a week. And now this morning while we were out running errands, JP kept telling me that his ear hurt. Since this is the first time he's ever told me that something hurt, I was concerned. Without being prepared, we drove to the Saturday clinic. Ninety minutes later ... (that means 85 minutes of sitting with both kids in the small waiting room around other sick people without ANY toys or books or snacks or drinks or a spare diaper for smelly AA) ... JP was diagnosed with an ear infection. Uggghh.