My poor sick family.

This fall has been really hard on so many family and friends as far as illnesses go. So, I really shouldn't be surprised that my family has also been sick. Emily and Shawn both had really bad sore throats and coughs/colds. Emily was able to throw hers off after about 4-5 days, but Shawn just continued to be sick. He missed more than a week of work- including 2 days he'd scheduled off to do fun stuff with the girls over their fall break. We ended up spending fall break at home and weren't able to do anything fun at all. In fact Shawn is still coughing now, 2 and 1/2 weeks later. Poor little Lily threw up on Sunday (on her dad and all over our bed) at 3 a.m. and was then just fine all day Sunday and until late Monday night when she spiked a fever that was over 103. She tossed and turned and whimpered all night, but finally woke this morning in a much happier state. Luckily, we are now able to control her fever w/ medicine, but she's still a sick little Bean. We're just hoping that her fever is gone in time to go trick-or-treating this weekend.

I also had a bad cold that continues to linger but isn't so bad now. The only one of us not to get sick? Charlie. i say that it's the 2+ hours a day she spends swimming that keeps her so healthy. Either way, I'm glad that one of us has stayed healthy!