The Summer of the Viruses

Our school plan for the summer was totally upended by several viruses. First some of us were ravaged by rotovirus--especially Morgan. She was down for almost 3 weeks. That was really scary. Next it was H1N1--commonly known as The Swine Flu. I began our mini epidemic with 2 weeks of really scary stuff. We were successful in containing it to me until I sent the fam to church on the 3rd Sunday and Hunter and Morgan picked it up there. They came down with it 3 days later--the very day the 3 older kids went to camp--confined on a bus with a couple sick kids. Nearly everyone on that bus was sick 2-3 days later. So ensued another 2 weeks of sickies--now it was me caring for them instead of them caring for me.

But now, finally, the viral siege that began on June 19th with Rotovirus and July 10th with H1N1 is over. That's 10 weeks--just gone. On the bright side, we are now (hopefully!) immune to H1N1! Praying that a solid Autumn, Winter and Spring of school will commence.

We have been doing a purge/deep clean of the house interrupted by much water removal for the many-pronged leaking problem over the last couple weeks. I'm taking one more week to try to grab the reins of domesticity and thennnnnnnn (drumroll)

We will start school on September 7th--A Monday!

I actually think the break was good--Hunter and Morgan are begging for school. Morgan has been dragging around a math workbook I bought at Target's $ aisle. Hunter is reading simple words. Amanda's starting to think about it again. Sydney and Shelby aren't exhibiting excitement about school (they're 13 & 14--What do you expect?) but they're not whining about it, either.

Upcoming: Outlining the Plan for this year.