Blogging has been slow around these parts because, well… everything has been slow.  Winter illnesses have hit us with a vengeance.  In the past few weeks each family member has been struck down to bed for at least 24 hours with various combinations of stomach ailments, fevers, colds, and other issues.  This is beyond the usual winter runny noses and coughs that we always have, so we’re pretty much a house of illness these days with no end in sight. 

This picture has nothing to do with the post… but it’s cute.

I guess the upside is that none of us were hit with the worst of the worst at the same time.  I was struck in bed on a Monday, J on a Wednesday, Sammy on a Saturday and then Clare on the following Monday.  It was quick succession, we fell like dominos, one of us getting up again to take care of the next fallen one.  I know better then to think that we’re done with sickness.  Hopefully this will be our only incidents of stomach ailments (please cross your fingers and toes) but I’m keeping us stocked in tissue, children’s ibuprofen and vicks vaporub just in case.

Poor Clarie had it the worst of any of us… she literally spent most of one day draped across Jeremy’s chest with her head on his shoulder.  This picture was taken on Day 2 of her illness, about two minutes after I took this picture she put her head on the table and said “Mama?  Can I just go to sleep?”  Fortunately she’s back to normal now.