All I want for Christmas is a healthy family!

At the beginning of last week, Cadence came down with a bad cold. Just 1 week after starting daycare, so it was sort of expected. By the end of last week, she had pretty much lost her voice and you couldn't even hear her when she cried.

I took her into the Dr. on Thur and sure enough, she had croup. So we had to give her breathing treatments on the nebulizer before bed each night. By this time, Delaney was fighting off the same bad cold and had a sore throat. Between the 2 of them not sleeping well, Virgil and I were getting very little sleep.

Once Friday rolled around, I was thinking the weekend would help us to recover, but it didn't. By the end of the weekend, Delaney was fine, but Cadence was still sick and Virgil and I had come down with the bad cold. Our lack of sleep has made it even harder for us to fight it off too.

We finally were able to send Cadence back to daycare on Tuesday... sigh... what a relief. Until... I got a call from Delaney's school at 4pm that she had just thrown up. So I left work early and headed for her school and called Virgil to have him pick up Cadence so I could get Delaney straight home. By the time I got there, she had thrown up again and she was sitting in a chair in the restroom hovering over the toilet crying. I tried to cuddle her to make her feel better, but also had to get her into her carseat so I could get her home. So I buckled her up, handed her a plastic bag in case she had to throw up again, and headed home. She didn't make it home... she threw up all over the car. Not a drop in the plastic bag... sigh... It took me over an hour to clean it up in the pouring rain. I had to take her carseat completely apart and get it all cleaned up too. Did I mention how exhausted I was by this time?

So Tues night, we didn't get much sleep... Along comes Wed morning. Both girls wake up with fevers. We already knew Virgil would have to stay home with Delaney, but now Cadence had to stay home too. Thank goodness, by the end of the day, their fevers were gone and Delaney was back to herself. Cadence was still fighting the cold.

So now it's Thur, and Cadence has her 6 mo. check up. I take her in, returning the nebulizer, and her weight has dropped and she's got a double ear infection. My poor baby... she's been through so much!

At this point, with just 5 days til Christmas, all I really want for Christmas is for my family to not be sick and to get a decent nights sleep again! Did I mention that I'm exhausted?