Weirdest thing ever

Toward the end of August, I got a bad cold that lasted for ever.  It started out with a sore throat followed by loosing my voice.  Of course my kids loved the fact that I couldn't raise my voice at them for basically a week.  Once I got my voice back, I had this cough which lasted almost 2 months.  Coughing all the time got old real fast and I was sick of taking cough drops multiple times during the day.  About 3 weeks into this cold the strangest thing happened.  I lost all sense of taste.  For a whole week I couldn't taste a thing.  It kind of freaked me out, because at one time a few days into not being able to taste I thought what if this is how it's gonna be forever.  After the depression of that wore off, my thought was wow I could make this work to my advantage.  I could finally eat real healthy and loose those last few pounds that I have been trying to get rid of for years.  I started eating things in the cupboard that had been in there for a while and would probably never get eaten.  Things like the flavored applesauce I thought my kids would like to bring in their school lunches but the kids never wanted to take them.  After day 2 of not being about to taste and being a little freaked out I went to the Internet and searched my symptoms.  What I found from my search is that my cold ended up turning into a sinus infection and my sinus were so clogged that it was affecting my taste.  I chose not to go to the Dr and be put on any meds. because of all the reading I did.  By the time the medicine would start to work would be the same time my body would be on the recovery.  The worst part about not being able to taste for that entire week was when the primary had there yearly movie night and Jon and I went out to dinner at a nearby restaurant with some friends while the kids were at movie night and I couldn't taste my yummy food I had been looking forward to eating since we made plans to go there a few weeks earlier.  What a waste of money?  Oh well, I am so glad I have my taste back even if I still have those few pounds to loose.  Now if only the cough would go away too.

Surprised this day didn't come sooner

Well it finally happened. Today, March 23rd was the first day one of my kids missed school. They all had perfect attendance until now. I picked Brenton up from school yesterday with only an hour left of school because he didn't feel well. So today he stayed home and went back to school the next day. He had a headache and was a little achey no fever or anything else. Then that coming weekend Talmage and Connor were both up on the same night throwing up sick. They didn't miss any school because it was the weekend. Then Brenton got sick with what Talmage and Connor had and he missed another day. So out of the whole year all five of my kids who are in school everyday missed only 2 days of school and that was the same person. And Hayden didn't miss any preschool days. Our family has been very blessed in that department and I am very greatful we don't get sick very often. Besides colds each of us probably only gets sick once a year and it is usually less than 24 hours.