Quarantine

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that is indeed the case, you should be able to easily tell how our weekend is going :

This is a picture of all the stuff we're currently medicating ourselves with. We have nightime cold and flu tablets (for Jay and I to take on alternate nights), children's Tylenol, children's liquid Ibuprofen, adult cough medicine, earache tablets (a homeopathic blend), children's chewable Ibuprofen, and eardrops. You can also see the handy dandy thermometer that we use - it's the kind you slide over your forehead to get a temperature. Best $30 I ever spent. Really. What's not included is the monster bag of 200 Halls Cough Drops that Jay and I have been sucking on since Thursday.

Henry and William were sick starting last weekend and have relapsed. They are both feverish and coughing, with Henry complaining of an earache, although that seems to be better today. Jay and I are coughing and congested. We're feeling better energy wise, but I forgot how hard it is to cough like this all the time. Luckily Tessa seems to have avoided getting sick so far. It's been over a week now since we have had at least one person in our household who has been ill, so maybe she's just been passed over this time. We certainly hope so.

Luckily the TV viewing is fairly basketball-heavy this weekend, so between basketball games and DVD's or Tivo, we're able to convince the kids to rest a bit. If only convincing them to take the appropriate medicine at the appropriate time was that easy. If you had dropped by our house last night around 7:30, you would have heard crying and begging and pleading from Henry and William as we tried to get them to take their medicine. What was originally a polite request from weary but oh-so-patient parents became a threat to sit on them and pour it down their throats. It wasn't pretty. But hey, I understand. That grape flavored liquid ibuprofen that basically tastes like grape flavored sugar is awful I'm sure. Perhaps next time we'll go with the bubble gum.

Edited to add that I just realized today was Pi Day. You know, 3.14159....? Well it's 3/14. I should have bought some pie for us to eat at 1:59 pm. Sigh. I'm such a geek.