I haven't posted in forever. Was home all day Tuesday and 1/2 of Wednesday with sick children. Thank the Lord Jewel is a complainer because I didn't realize how sick Cannon actually was. Weird statement huh. Let me explain. Cannon had been running a low-grade fever starting Monday night with lots of sneezing and sniffling and a minor complaining of a head ache. I find out he went to the school nurse for a head ache that afternoon at school, but she took his temp told him he wasn't running a fever, gave him Tylenol and sent him back to class. Well, Cannon's normal body temp. is 97.4 ,not 98.6 like most clinicians use as as 'standard' body temp. so he was actually running a temp then (my mom and I also have low body temps- funny I'm so hyper, but I have a low body temp and really low blood pressure-ironic) anyhoo... I continually asked him ," Do your ears hurt, does your throat hurt, does your stomach hurt, hows your head ache???" Response- "Okay, my throat hurts a little". So I figured it was just a virus, but he did look pale so I wanted him to stay home Tues and sleep, figuring Frank could monitor Cannon between napping. Well... then Jewel (who puts my dramatic flare to shame!) woke up Tues A.M. with ,"my head really hurts and my throat is killing me" and wouldn't drink anything. Well I'm thinking she is egging it up because she knows Cannon is staying home. Then I felt her glands and oh my HUGE... so both kids to the Drs. strep probably have to wait for 24 hr. culutres. So you see.. it is a good think Jewel is a whiner because I would have let Cannon for several more days with his symptoms before taking him to the Drs. Okay Jewel really isn't a whiner the Dr. said her throat looked really bad and it took a full 3 days on meds before her glands even started to go down and she did sleep a lot.

So... I haven't blogged in several days. It took me 2 days being back at work to be caught up enough to blog.

Have a Blessed Easter as we celebrate the joyous rising of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Smiles,

Jennifer