There has been a sickness of some sort in this house for a long time now, but it hasn't gotten me yet. A week ago Tuesday (May 1) Missy was complaining that her tummy hurt. It was still hurting on Wednesday morning, to the point that Beth wasn't sure about keeping her home...until the flux started. So Missy and Beth both stayed home. And again on Thursday, with Missy eating only a few saltines each day. Thursday evening she was feeling better, to the point that Beth was all set to send her to school, and then the barfing started. And it continued all weekend. We thought about taking her to medstat on Sunday but decided to wait to see our usual doctor on Monday morning instead. He did all the blood tests for some scary things, but the results came right after lunchtime and it is just a virus, seemingly tailor-made for Missy, but she would be better in a day or two. Then Monday evening Beth came down with it too. Missy was able to go back to school Tuesday after nearly a week off, but Beth was throwing up for the next few days, finally able to go back to work Thursday after over a week off. Thursday was Alex's class' County Fair in the evening, which everyone was able to go to thankfully, after all the work Alex put in to learning about Marion County. Friday was Missy's author party, where her book "The Best Movie Ever" about a family of armadillos going to see a movie was unveiled. I was able to get there for the party at lunch by the skin of my teeth. In the afternoon was Alex's class' post-county-fair party, which he was not able to attend because he started throwing up at school Friday morning. So Beth was off work again with him. Funny story....they went to pick up Missy with Alex holding a bucket in the back of the car. As they're pulling into the driveway, Alex hands over the bucket to Beth and tells her he doesn't need it anymore JUST as he throws up into her purse. Ha ha! He was down with it through Saturday but was much better today. I went to church myself, since Beth went by herself last week (even though today was Mother's Day) and when I got home, everyone was working outside! We got all the bushes trimmed and the crabapple tree pruned, and I bought and assembled a chair for Beth for the front porch. With any luck, nobody will be sick again for a while.