Henry's better

This whole last week has gone down as probably one of the hardest for us since the time Henry was a newborn. He was just so sick and miserable and we both then got sick and were so tired and irritable. All I could think of was "Who gave this to my baby?"!!!!!

Well, today I took Henry to school. He is all better (but I'm still in the thick of it. I got maybe 3 hours sleep last night. I can not stop coughing. I finally resorted to pouring honey down my throat, repeatedly--it worked). Anyway, there were only two kids there. I asked where everyone was and the teacher told me they were all sick. I was surprised to hear this because I truly did not think Henry got croup from one of his classmates since he was not sick until Wednesday morning and he had not been in school since Friday the week before. Well, one of the dad's came to drop off his daughter who had been out all last week too and he was explaining his daughter had croup. And at that moment it all flooded back to me. IT WAS THEM! On that very Friday the week before there was one little girl who appeared to be miserable (this guys daughter). She woke up crying and begging for her mama and the teacher said her mom told her that she did not sleep at all the night before. HELLO?! THAT MEANS YOUR KID IS SICK!!!!

I pretty much told this guy his kid gave mine croup and wiped out the whole class. He sincerely apologized and we commiserated about the hell we've been through this last week. He seemed like a nice guy. But still--if your kid doesn't sleep all night, it means they're getting sick and YOU DON'T TAKE THEM TO SCHOOL.

We've been pretty much housebound for a week and out of desperation we went to the mall on Saturday. It's close, there's a train to ride, it got us out, we got Henry some new shoes and pushed him around in a car-cart. He loves "driving" those things. It was actually fun. Who knew?