Quarantine

Calen has been feverish since Sunday morning and I assumed he'd be better by now. But instead of waking up this morning to a happy healthy kid readying for school, I woke up to TWO feverish, miserable coughing crud victims. 

Yay. 

Thus our living room turned into a small-scale triage center. The kids were quarantined to their little fold out couches and were restricted to watching cartoon and movies all day while I took temperatures, applied Spiderman cold compresses and force fed them Tylenol, and disinfecting everything that they may have touched, breathed on or thought about. 

Don't you love it when your entire day revolves around this:

The dining room table turned triage center.

Disclaimer: the adult Tylenol and Airborne is for me, not for the kids. Obviously. Stop dialing CPS and put your phones down. 

Also, that bear (known in our house as "Sickie Bear") is pretty much the coolest thing ever. It's got oatmeal or magic beans or something in it and you can microwave or freeze him and the kids snuggle it and the heat/cold plus the aroma therapy truly makes them feel better/break fevers. And it's machine washable. I got mine at Costco for $20 in the pharmacy section. 

(Sigh. Yet another endorsement I won't receive.)

    

 

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