Sick days

First it was Alexandra. Vomiting, fever, sore throat. Larissa had the nasal-spray flu vaccine. Perhaps she (and I) would be spared. We were both vaccinated.

But two days later, Larissa didn’t feel so good. “I think I’m gong to throw up,” she told me as she grabbed her stomach.

She didn’t throw up, and she didn’t even get a fever. But she’s been moping around the house with a stomachache for the last day. Neither of the girls did schoolwork. They hung out together in their bedroom in fuzzy bathrobes all day long, playing several games of chess. Jacob is plodding along in his schoolwork alone, but because of the atmosphere of illness at home, I’m not pushing him. Jacob and I are frantically drinking glasses of Airborne and praying daily for protection from illness. George is still coughing from the bad cold (or mild flu?) that he had two weeks ago.

Oh, the joys of winter.