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"I am reaching one hand out of the grave to type this today. After putting up with David&amp;#039;s head cold for two weeks, then moving on to Anna&amp;#039;s week of coughing and fevering, I moved into the weekend with high hopes for a healthy household. Of course, this was simply not to be. I got good and sick, running a high fever and laying in misery on the heating pad under my fuzzy blanket on the couch.  I looked around at my messy, messy house, my piles of undone laundry, and my never-ending &amp;quot;to do&amp;quot; list and made the executive decision that not much was getting done. I washed one load of essential clothing to get us through the next few days, made grilled cheese sandwiches with soup for dinner, and stayed on the couch all day yesterday. Sometimes, you just have to admit you don&amp;#039;t have what it takes to do more. I&amp;#039;m going to work, of course, because I have to save my days for the kids&amp;#039; illnesses, the kids&amp;#039; school events like in-service days, parent-teacher conference and snow days, and an eventual vacation sometime over the summer. So I Dayquil-ed up and hopefully, it&amp;#039;ll see me through till I&amp;#039;m feeling like a human being again. Maybe it&amp;#039;s just me, but it seems like this year&amp;#039;s cold and flu season is markedly worse than usual. Half my office is out, and just about every kid in the neighborhood has had some form of stomach or respiratory virus in the last few weeks. The news seems to be full of stories about it, too. Does it seem that way to you? Anyway, that&amp;#039;s my little update for today, because honestly, I just can&amp;#039;t do more with this bleary, medicated brain of mine right now. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a little easier. Hope you&amp;#039;re all a lot healthier than me right now! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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