Illness Reigns

I have finally succumbed to the latest household illness. Maria and Kai have been sick with the flu for the past few days, and now I have it too. But it’s not quite bad enough to keep me from work. This winter in general has been a tough one for us health-wise. Particularly for Maria and Kai. Kai has some environmental allergies that often lead to him getting sick (but he didn’t have problems when we lived in CA, so I think it has to do with the house being sealed up for the winter - something we never had to do in CA). After numerous doctor visits we finally figured out what was happening, and we started keeping his room really clean, etc., and that has helped a lot. And poor Maria has had more sick days than healthy ones this winter. It’s almost like we’ve moved to some exotic foreign land, and we’re getting hammered with all the native viruses.