Everybody Sick

I never realized how much I take my children's health for granted until this week. Sure I've dealt with sick kids - only Anna up until last Thursday. But when I have to take care of two sick children at once, and I'm sick too, then it hits me how blessed we are to have a healthy family.

So Anna started cold symptoms on Monday night. Remember she was just getting over an earache? She didn't have a fever with it, nothing terribly bad, but she was pretty groggy and unhappy. I've been so thankful that Megan's managed to stay 100% healthy for the last 10 1/2 months. Then Thursday came...Now, you should know that I too spent the entire week with a cold/sinus infection (which is actually pretty normal for me, though still miserable.) Matt was also feeling bad. Megan woke up Thursday with horrible congestion. Long story short, after two sleepless nights, vomitting from 4am till morning, and much disinfecting, we headed to the doctor and discovered it had become an earache. Megan and I both hopped on the antibiotics and we're both feeling pretty good now.

Every time I tackle a week like this, in hindsight I realize that I've conquered another mommy milestone. So we'll chalk it up as character building, right? I know this is just one of many sick and sleepless nights. I truly am so thankful for being blessed with healthy children though.

Here are some pictures I took before this crazy past week. This is basically one of our creative ways we spend our colder days.