If I haven't mentioned it, I really hate flu season.
To me it doesn't mean sickness, it means avoidance. Avoiding germs this time of year is tough, especially when every microorganism at school tries to hitch a ride home with my girls.
While we are careful throughout the year, forgoing many things we'd like to do as a family, this year flu season is eating away at me a little. Maybe it isn't flu season by itself, but the waiting and anticipation of so much this week. Either way, it's driving me to find distractions.
Like planning a day of Harry Potter potion activities.
Like bringing all the chairs in the living room to build a fort.
Like putting extra chocolate chips in the pancakes.
Like baking a requested cake, smothered in ganache, which I can't touch.
Like singing Sara Bareilles with the girls at the top of my lungs , changing the station and doing it all over again.
Like making ice cream in a bag, then turning it into root beer floats.
Oh wait, those aren't distractions, all of those things are just the every day.
Here's to a week of the every day around here. Maybe I can't do every little thing I'd like to, or see all the friends and family I'd like to at times, but I realize, some times our every day rocks around here.
Regardless, for the record, I still hate flu season.
Hopefully I will have news to share with all of you later this week on a number of fronts. Stay tuned.
