Lovesick

Whatever is going around, we've got it - and then some. Alyssa woke up with pink eye, Ethan and Marcus have been fighting horrible colds for the past week, I went to bed last night with a sore throat and it looks like I might have tonsillitis, and Brian's had a cold for a while too.

This morning we took Alyssa in to the school's clinic to get a prescription for her pinkeye, and to give a third year an experience to get passed off. Brian had a lab at the same time, so he wasn't with us. We thought his lab might get out early, so we stuck around after Alyssa was done so we could take him home with us. Turns out it didn't get out early, and the hour and fifteen minutes of waiting with three sick kids who missed breakfast and me feeling nice and cruddy also, was not at all fun. Once Brian got out, we hurried to the post office to drop off an important letter (that post is probably coming soon), headed to Safeway so Brian could run in for some orange juice and Theraflu, and then went straight home. We got the kids some lunch, put a movie on for them, and Brian left to do dispensing at the vision clinic, and Marcus and I went down for a nap.

So Brian took care of us, even when he wasn't feeling well, just because he loves us. He took care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and he cheered us all up. My favorite thing from today is when I told the kids to pick up the toys in the living room so we could watch a movie, and Brian told Ethan that if the toys were on the floor he (Brian) would trip over them and squash Ethan all the way through the floor. He said we'd have an Ethan-shaped hole right in the middle of our living room.