It’s been a rough week. Beth was sick last week, and this past week it’s been the kids. All was well on Monday, when I took the kids to the Carnival at their preschool..it is not easy to keep track of both of them at a place like that. Beth was at Bible study so I took them myself. However, Beth had neglected to tell me that you have to pay for tickets to do the games and such, so after getting the kids (in the rain) in the door, and them getting all excited, I tried to explain to them that we needed to leave so I could go get some cash. A very helpful lady that was working there saw us packing up and comped us a bunch of tickets, so we didn’t have to leave, which was good. Once inside, as is typical, Alex wanted to run all over and do everything and Missy planted her feet, crossed her arms, and glared at the floor (it was too noisy). But we managed, eventually getting the kids to about all the game stations (Missy like the fishing the best) and coming home with a load of cheapo plastic toys and candy. We even won two prizes in the last cakewalk of the evening...Missy won the first choice and I won one later on (I let Alex pick the prize). A couple days after that, Alex got sick. Several days of high fever, tired all the time, not wanting to eat, runny nose. No missed school, but Thursday and Friday he wasn’t feeling well. Saturday was supposed to be a fun day for him (soccer in the morning, and a birthday party for a classmate at Joy Jungle) but he wasn’t feeling well enough for either one. We thought he was ok enough for us to go to Churchill’s in the evening for a movie night but he came down with a fever while we were gone again.