All three kids are sick now, though Josiah is almost out of it. He went to school yesterday for the first time since Monday. Micah had his worst day yet, on the other hand. He was depressed most of the day because he kept coughing pretty rough. He'd keep coming up to me saying, "I sick ... I need medicine" when it had just been 1/2 an hour since his last dosage! Hopefully today will be better. Emerie and Andrea went to Joplin for the afternoon/early evening to get a perm [Andrea, not Emerie :-)]. Emerie started sniffling and getting sick somewhere in the afternoon. I even have a dry throat and feel a little stopped-up this morning. Hopefully it won't hit Andrea & I, too.

One other note - we have gotten a TON of rain the past couple of days. I'm not complaining about not being able to mow the lawn as needed - I'm longing for the day when I can stop until next year. I am complaining that we were up several times the other night trying to stop leaks from the roof over our bedroom. It seems they didn't roof it right when they worked on the house this summer. The contractor was out here yesterday to take a look at it & informed us that as soon as the weather took a turn for the better that they'd come back out & reroof the part over our room to get it fixed.