Not an excuse for my extended absence from here, but an excuse for my more recent absence, at least... Jazzy had his class field trip to the zoo on the 2nd. I chaperoned. There were enough chaperones that I only ended up in charge of him and one of his classmates, so it all worked out well. After the field trip was over, literally as I was walking back to my car, I got a call from their school letting me know that Squiddle had thrown up in class. Apparently his complaints of a sore throat that morning hadn't been nothing after all. So I drove there, picked him up. The next day was Saturday, and Jazzy came down with it as well then. Fever, vomiting, sore throat. They both took a few days off school and went back on Thursday.
Guess what I came down with that Friday? The 9th. And have been suffering from ever since? I grant that after the first 48 hours it transitioned from the flu to severe head cold symptoms, thank goodness, but today, the 20th, is the first day I've finally felt somewhere around 90% human. I have gone, in the interim, through more than a bottle each of DayQuil and NyQuil. And at least Wonderful Husband seems to be immune (*knock on wood*) to whatever this bug is.
Just in time for tomorrow to be the boys' last day of school!
(And, unrelatedly, on our drive back from Squiddle's vision therapy today, he and I saw a couple of juvenile orcas off the Purdy Spit! Four years living in the Puget Sound area, and this is the first time we've seen any. 'Twas glorious.)
