It wasn’t supposed to be this way
Posted in Several weeks ago the in-laws told us of their plans to join the rest of their family in North Carolina for the July 4 weekend. My father-in-law’s family is generally fun enough, so I thought we would probably join them. I’d rather stay home, but there are some times you just go with the flow. A week or two later things got better, the in-laws offered to take the boys to the reunion, leaving my wife and me at home for the long weekend without kids. Oh yeah, we can crash at their place which has the best hot tub and pool backyard I’ve ever seen, plus there’s a pool table, sauna, and a stocked bar. Now THAT’s how to spend a holiday weekend.
And things were looking great. Last weekend rocked, but both my wife and I noticed that our sinuses were starting to act up a bit. “No problem,” we figured, “it should be through this in a day or two.” Alas. The boys went to the doctor this week; one has an ear infection, and they put the other on antibiotics, just in case. Meanwhile, I spent a whole day in bed, and I couldn’t sleep through the night because my throat hurt too much. Today we headed over to the Minute Clinic (which totally beats a normal doctor, btw) to see what we could find out. Go figure, it’s strep and an ear infection for me and a sinus infection with exposure to strep for her.
So instead of an alcohol fueled weekend in the pool, it looks like we’ll be spending the weekend drugged up and lying on the couch.
Happy independence day. I’m hoping yours is more festive than ours.
