We are all healthy. This is huge since from the time of the last post until now SOMEONE in our household has been sick. We have been through a stomach bug (over Christmas, thank you very much), pink eye, cold, pneumonia, mono, THE FLU, and more. Poor Jimmie had every one of those and is our most likely culprit for infecting us all. Chris and Richie were out of commission for a full week with the flu alone. Just awful. Richie thought he was dying. He couldn’t even go to the bathroom unassisted…Chris had to hold him up.

We are hopeful that it is all behind us now and we are moving on. We have aired the house out every time the temperature even approached 32 degrees. The whole day on Saturday we turned off the heat and had all the windows open. We’ve shampooed the rugs, bleached countertops and bathrooms, and Lysoled the heck out of anything that doesn’t move or breathe (some in our house breathe, but don’t move much).

We are hopeful that spring will bring a bout of good health for us and everyone else around us. We have unfortunately also infected Mom and Dad during all of this because they have been kind enough to watch kids while we worked. I’m not sure we’ll ever get over THAT guilt.

I promise to update more regularly. I’ve got big plans to change up the format and add more than just general family activities….so stay tuned!