It's been busy and we've been sick!

Just a quick update on this late Sunday night. It's been a busy week for us here, with various illnesses going through the house. Austin ended up at Urgent Care on Saturday morning, where we waited almost three hours for a diagnosis of ear infection, which I suspected the night before when he started complaining of an earache at bedtime. Just why do the kids wait until all doctor offices are closed to get really sick?? But after only 1 day on his meds, he's had a complete turn around and is doing well. The weekend previous, his birthday weekend, he was sick with a high fever, and what I now know was this year's round of respiratory influenza, which has symptoms of high fever, coughing, achiness - general yuck without the throwing up. I thought for sure Gretchen had it, but she did not, and Daniel got it on Wednesday. So you can imagine what the house has been like - a lot of whining and crying and very little sleep! In fact, I'm headed to bed here as soon as I'm done with this. Hopefully this next week will be much better!!