Sickies

The older kids are coughing. Not horrible coughs, but coughs nonetheless. It started with T on Saturday night. He woke up with a croupy cough so I kept him home from church and dinner at Grandma's house. He was quite a bit better by yesterday. H has coughed a few times with the barky cough and S was up late coughing, so I'm keeping both of them home from school today, just to be safe. Although, all three of them are running around playing, so perhaps that wasn't completely necessary. I banned the older three from touching the twins starting on Sunday, so we'll see if the babies can stay relatively well. With all of them home from school and me still having to work, it's going to be an awesome day. Luckily, the maid showed up today, even though she isn't feeling 100%. (Like a true woman, she works even when she doesn't feel well.)
She only really does light work like dusting, sweeping, and washing her pretend dishes, but hey, I hate dusting so it works for me! Also, her schedule (self-imposed, I might add) is a killer. Cooking dinner and baking in the desert?! Perhaps that's baking dessert.... :)