Everyone in my family has been ill for the past week. We’ve not all had it at the same time, so it seems to drag on and on. I can’t complain too much, because we had a really good run with not much illness for over a year. But this one has knocked us on our butt. We’ve been enjoying a bit down time.

The symptoms we have had are:
• Temp that comes and goes
• Eyes hurting
• Headache
• Chills
• Stomach Pain (especially the first 5 days)
• Queasiness with the stomach pain
• Then everything moves into the sinuses and chest

Sounds like the flu doesn’t it?

I’m sort of the last in the family to get it. I don’t think I have it really bad although the nausea was bad enough to wake me up out of a sleep last night. The worst part has just been this low level nausea and headache during the day. Totally livable. I’m hoping I can avoid the rest. Noah seems to possibly be developing a secondary sinus infection. We’ll see how he does over the next day or so. I might end up taking him into the doctor.

Anyway… nothing exciting is going on. Kids are on winter break. I’m hoping that tomorrow we will be well enough to go see Bridge to Terrabithia.

The puppy is doing really well. He’s getting the hang of the dog door. He doesn’t always make the connection that he can go outside at anytime… but he’s getting it. It’s funny that he sometimes stands at the baby gate into our foyer and cries to “go out” not realizing that beyond the baby gate isn’t “outside”. But it’s good he’s mostly cueing us when he needs to go.

He and Sanibel are getting along great now. They run and play. They play chase and tumble over each other. If Denali hurts himself and yelps, Sanibel rushes over to sniff and make sure he’s ok. It’s really worked out well. And I think Sanibel is actually happy to have another animal around. She doesn’t follow me around as much now. She’s ok being with the puppy instead of me.

I sent back my Garmin Forerunner 305 today to have them take a look at the unit. I could never get the heart rate monitor to track correctly. So I am excited to get that fixed. It will be awesome for me to see what my heart is doing on hills. I’m thinking my fixed Forerunner, some new shoes and some sunshine will be plenty motivating when I am not feeling like crap!!!

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