Endless Winter

There are many reason why I don't like winter. I have mentioned a couple of them in previous posts. Our winters are usually an endless cycle of coughs, soar throats and vomiting spells. There is almost always at least one child who isn't breathing well because of being stuffed up and there for can't sleep well at night so they come and wake up mom and dad. It's always great when they start to feel better but by then it has usually moved on to another member of the family.

You can understand our awe and enjoyment when not one of the kids so much as sniffled all the way up until Christmas. It was great but as you can guess, we broke the dry spell. This time however, we decided to get it all over with at once instead of passing it slowly around the family. Ryan and Parker were the only ones who escaped unscathed, I think she kinda felt left out. Easton had it the worst with a double ear infection, one of which ruptured before we could get him into the doctor. The rest of us only had coughs and congestion. I don't get sick very often but when I do, it's usually pretty bad. Moms, in my opinion, shouldn't be allowed to get sick unless they have a mom to take care of them too.

One funny story:
Ryan was in the girls room playing with all the kids. He was laying on his stomach across Parkers bed and Creed was sitting on his back. Ryan told Creed to not jump on his neck because his face was by a side board and any jerking would make him smack his face. Creed, instead of jumping, slid up Ryans back to his neck and then off his head onto the floor. Ryan smashed his nose into the side board and quickly ran from the room because he thought he was bleeding. (Not to worry, the injury wasn't too serious, just a lot of pain.) When Ryan came back to the room to talk to Creed about it he found Creed howling with tears running down his face. Ryan asked what on earth happened to him. Creed bawled, "it's because I feel TERRIBLE!!" His little boy was having a soul wrenching experience that was so cute Ryan had to try hard not to laugh. So in the end, Ryan, who had his nose smashed in, was comforting and hugging Creed who got a fun slide ride off the bed. Oh to be a child again.