Visitors

What a week! We had two visitors come to our family this past week. The first was...(dramatic pause)...THE COMMON COLD! Natalie picked it up somewhere, perhaps she thought it would be a fun pet? And she brought it home without telling me! Then she gave it to Nathan, who decided to keep it around for a few days. Then somehow even Tyler got his hands on it! Don't get me wrong, I really do enjoy having guests in our home, but this one was not AT ALL gracious and would not leave! Fortunately Natalie and Nathan have kicked it to the curb, but poor Tyler is so sweet and hasn't learned how to really get tough and tell this cold it's got to go!

Meanwhile, we were UNlucky enough to get a second visitor...STREP THROAT! I don't know where I met it, but I must have made quite the impression because it decided to come home with me. Then two days later it got tired of me and decided it liked Dan better (fortunately it was too afraid of the kids to bother them, and it didn't want to compete with their visitor CC). We were smarter with this visitor when it came to asking it to leave - ANTIBIOTICS!! I was so happy to start mine and get some relief, even though I have to take them 3 times a day for 10 days. That's 30 pills! (and for those of you that don't know, I detest taking pills). Dan got some meds too - take 2 pills the first day then 1 a day for the next 4 days. Yep, that's right - only 6 pills!! I admit it, I was pretty jealous.

So now we're all back to feeling better and we can finally enjoy this BEAUTIFUL fall weather we're getting! Finally it's not 100 outside, and there's always this nice cool breeze. It's time to start going to parks again and of course go CAMPING!! Our favorite family activity! And hopefully we won't have any more visitors (of the germy type at least) for awhile now. :)