When it Rains it Pours

We are on the mend here. Still some sniffles, two of us are on antibiotics, and the Saltine crackers have been pushed to the back of the pantry. I think the silver lining of everyone getting colds and a stomach flu in the same week is that you get it all over with at once. It makes for an awful, intense week of cleaning up and being up in the night, but like a mild hurricane, it blows through, and you clean up with a sigh of relief.

I was talking to my friend Kim yesterday and we were laughing about what becomes a vacation when you are a mother of three small ones. Mine was spending three and a half hours at the ER on Sunday. Just me, a book, and a throbbing ear infection. All that was missing was a cocktail and a deck chair.