I'm pretty sure I'm back.

So in case you were wondering, yes, the people in my house have been sick this whole time. It's been an entire week of sickness. As it seems, both little ones contracted RSV. Hailey's turned into croup, and then an ear infection. This involved steamy showers and all sorts of other nighttime horror... like her drool on my pillow. She ran a fever for about four days, and still has a little cough. Keelyn's turned into bronchiolitis. This involved lots of nastiness from the mouth and nose, which also spent time on my pillow. Today was day five of her fever, though it was much lower than the near 104 she hit a few days ago.

BUT.

(Pause while I debate over whether or not I should actually type this...)

Both kids are asleep in their own beds right now, and based on the patterns of past nights, I'm thinkin' they're staying!! I don't even hear any coughing. Or moaning. Or come get me right now, Mommy.

And before you go feeling all bad for them, you should know that being sick meant many not so bad things. Like we fulfilled every four year old girl's dream of watching Cinderella exactly 358 times. And Keelyn, who turns into the googly-eyed monster every morning when it's time to take off her jammies, got to stay in them for like FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT. And all I can say is thank goodness for Noggin at 3am. And unlimited orange juice. And lots of snuggle time together. And feet in my face every morning when I woke up, regardless of which child was in our bed...or even better...one night it was both...and there were feet for Andrew too. This is why you have more than one child, I'm quite certain.

So now of course there is laundry to fold, there are bills to pay, there are toys to clean up, and just general catch up on things that went left undone during The Week On The Couch. I also have about 500 blog posts I'd like to write, so don't be surprised if there's an update each day this week. I know, I know, it's a lot...but I think you can handle it.