OK, I'm back after taking a few days off for sick time and just generally being burnt out on the whole computer thing.  This is the first day this computer has been on since last Friday or so, which is a minor miracle for me.

One thing I've noticed with having kids in school or daycare is that they get to be around a lot of other kids that are sick (lucky them).  My daughter seems to have a perpetual snotty nose and therefore germs are just flying around this place.  The kids like hanging around me and hanging off of me and generally wiping their noses all over my body.  My daughter was having a hissy fit and wanted to be cuddled, so as she's crying on my shoulder I look down and notice that my shoulder s just covered with snot and slobber.  That's got to be very unsanitary.

Needless to say, I'm sick a lot too, since I'm around the kids quite a bit.  It's very difficult NOT to get sick when you're around it.  I take my vitamins, do the whole extra vitamins when I get the sniffles, but invariably I get sick.

When I have some time in between being sick, I try my best to take care of myself, exercise, etc. and it seems to work for awhile, then something happens and I get sick and it kicks my butt for a month or two.  I think I'm getting better and not getting sick AS much, but MAN, I sure do hate getting sick.

Back to the kids being sick, boy oh boy does Kailynn's nose run.  I just don't understand how so much SNOT comes out of such a small person.  I'll take her into daycare and all the little kids look the same with the big 'ol pile of snot running down their faces.  And no matter how much you wipe it away, it all comes back even worse within a couple of minutes. 

Kailynn is constantly coming up to me with a tissue wanting her nose wiped and she's totally funny when I do.  She has her own version of blowing her nose which entails making a nose blowing sound with her mouth.

And even Michael, at five years old, has not got into the concept of blowing his nose.  He absolutely refuses to blow his nose.  I think he understands what needs to happen, but has some fear about it and therefore has a fit anytime we try to get him to blow his nose to get those snots out.

Super Mega Mom has been trying, unsuccesfully, for years to find ways to use all these snots that our kids produce, but so far no good.  Our kids are definately snot factories.

And maybe it's just a kid thing, because I KNOW my nose doesn't run near as much as theirs does. Or maybe I'm just better at doing the whole "blowing my nose" thing then they are.

So, this year we tried to nip things in the bud somewhat and got both kids flu shots, so hopefully this protects them some from some of the more painful sicknesses of the year.  I just wish at some point that they'd come up with some way to blunt the cold season.