Breathe

It has been one of those weeks.  The kinda week that just opens up around you and you don't know if you are coming or going.  That was this week for us.  After a wonderful week with family last week and an eventful New Years Eve(more about that later) we had a very LONG drive home to Maryland.  It snowed more than half the way home.  With each hour confined in the car I could feel each of the kids coughs getting worse and the germs crawling all around us.  I knew I was going to be into the doctor the next day.  What I wasn't expecting was Strep x 3 kids, a UTI for Meg and pinkeye for Caitlyn.  So two days home for the big kids and day three Caitlyn had gotten worse.  So back into the doctor we went and Cait was graced with an ear infection on top of everything else.  In the mean time, I have been cleaning and scrubbing trying to get these germs out of our lives.

I am so grateful to have sick leave so I can be home with these sick kiddos.  To be able to snuggle, bathe and love on them has been great.  Monday we should be back to our normal routine.  In the meantime, I am going to breathe and pray they continue to get well.  AND clean this house!