Spring approaches

Yesterday was kind of a crazy day at my house. It was a Friday and we didn't have school, since we had just completed parent/teacher conferences the day before. Typically, this would be a day of much jubilation for L and I - we try to have "girl days" on days off, and go to the pottery-making shop, or the art museum, or some other museum, or picnicking at the nature center, etc. However, when I got home from conferences at 9:15 on Thursday, my hubby was laying on the couch, and the house was quiet - the flu had struck. I went to pick L up from my in-laws', took her to my mom's house, and went home to get our things...our little house simply does not have enough space for a person with the flu AND two other people. So I gathered our stuff, plus all of the ingredients for 2 batches of muffins and the supplies to make a diaper cake, since I was helping hostess a baby shower for my partner teacher yesterday morning. Bless L's little heart, she helped my mom and me make a batch of spiced pear molasses muffins AND roll 72 diapers AND create the diaper cake. She mentioned at one point that she had been running a little fever at Grandpa & Grandma's house, but nothing seemed wrong, until the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. By the morning, she had a 101.4 fever, a serious cough, and not much sleep. So I made a batch of chocolate muffins with coconut almond filling for the shower, called the doctor's office, stopped by my house to check on my husband, took all of the muffins & the diaper cake to the shower, and took L to the doctor. She has strep.

That brings out grand total for this winter to:
*h1n1
*bronchitis
*pneumonia
*numerous respiratory bouts of crud
*strep

I will be SO HAPPY when spring officially arrives, and we can spend some time outside in fresh air.

So after going to the doctor's office, picking up her prescription, and giving her a dose, we got some Subway for lunch and went to a park. It was about 45 degrees, and I was wearing a long-underwear shirt and a sweatshirt. We stopped at Target to buy a short sleeved shirt for me (L had one on under her sweatshirt) and sunglasses for L, and then luxuriated in the sunshine for the next couple of hours. It's amazing how a little sunshine can improve my mood and attitude, even though the ditches and sides of the street and anyplace in the shade is still covered in snow.