January???????????

I lost most of January!!!! Tiff and the boys came on New Years Eve for 2 weeks. Jim and Lauren got sick JAN 1.... We spent the next 12 days trying to prevent anyone else from catching it, especially Tiff and the boys. Washed hands till they were raw, sprayed everything with lysol, etc. etc. Made it for 12 days and then Jimmy started in with symptoms. Mostly it was an awful head cold and cough. Jimmy said "I got the coughs". Then he woke up with that barky cough that can only mean the croup. Got him to a dr. and got medicine and a shot. Had to keep him confined to our bedroom so we could effectively run the vaporiser. After the first day he was a real champ, and stopped complaining. Tiff and I took turns with Jimmy and Jim and Tiff took turns with Kellen, as we hoped Jim was no longer contagious and wouldn't infect the baby. Anyway the up shot was the Dr. said no traveling for another week. So they were here 3 weeks after which we were sending her home with a recovering 2 year old, 2 month old baby and Mom coming down with said cold. They made it fine anyway, and she didn't get as sick as the rest of us. As for us we still sound a little like a TB ward with coughs coming from one room or another. I have only begun to feel like a human being again this week. Now we are trying to get the house back in some kind of order, after no cleaning for practically a month. Things are looking up though, and my sister is coming next week to celebrate our birthdays together. Looking forward to having some fun with her.

Have a couple of things I want to post about and will soon, I promise.