My children will, I think, never be well again.

I knew my daughter starting school would be a big deal for our family but I was simply not prepared for how often we would be sick. This isn't her first time in any kind of case, she's gone to daycare twice a week since she was two and a half years old, and my son now goes to a nannyshare twice a week himself. I guess the frequency of five days a week has really stepped things up though, because somebody in this household has been sick everyday since early August.

Today it really caught us by surprise, though. We went to bed, kids seemed fine, and then throughout the night each of us spent the night preoccupied with the fever from our assigned child. D. was too sick this morning to go to school, so I stayed home with both of them.

I don't really get how anybody manages to work and have children, unless they have a tooon of sick days (which I fortunately do).