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Is there more to life than illness???

My family has been sick off and on since September. We’ve rarely all been well at the same time. Someone always gets sick, and therefore passes it onto another person in the house. When we do all get better, it’s only for a couple of days. Then, inevitably someone gets sick. Most of the illness has been head colds, but some of the head colds have been horrible ones. Not just some sniffles, but huge yucky, sinus-pressure, headache-causing, fever-inducing, big ones. Oh, and some of them have had nasty coughs to boot. I’ve never been sick so much in all my adult years (I don’t remember being this sick in my youth either), and my kids haven’t had this many colds before either. I would hazard to say that they’ve been sicker this year and had more illness than in any of their previous years/months of life combined. It’s been that bad. I’ve missed church more than I want to admit because someone is always sick. Ugh! Will spring ever come???

Okay, so the illnesses will go away. I’m just venting. I need to be more positive about it, but I’m finding myself emotionally and physically unable to do normal day to day things. I just can’t handle them. I can’t go out of the house during the day. I’ve missed our weekly playgroup for over a month. I haven’t been able to attend a co-op also because of illness. The only reason my girls have been able to go to Liberty Girls is because David’s been home to watch the little ones. Luckily, I can just drop the girls off for ballet (which they’ve also had to miss a lot). My children haven’t had much social interaction with other kids like they want (I want my own too!) because we’re stuck in a stuffy house. I want to open all the windows up and breath in the fresh air, but it’s been cold a lot too. I can’t do shopping because the kids are sick and they want mommy home, not at the store. By the time they go to bed, I’m too tired to go do it. So, David picks up things here and there on his way home from work, which we all know usually means we spend more money on food as a result.

Okay, enough of my whining. I need to get back to work on getting my house in order, even if I’m too tired to do it.