My niece woke up with a chicken pox rash. My sister didn’t know at the time, but apparently there was a toddler in church last week who my niece had held who’d had the chicken pox. Dad and the boys had already left for a track meet. The indoor season has a few meets and one of my sons wanted to participate. More power to them but I was not going to go. Not only did we have visitors but I needed to not be out all day.

Elianna was over for the morning with Zorro. My brother and his friends were here for the tree tapping so she was also here to say hello to the people here. My parents had decided not to come but then showed up at the window in the middle of me Facetiming the boys to figure out how to hook up the games. For a while it was very chaotic but in that funny kind of way. My nephew was also teething, fussy, and had a fever.

I wasn’t sure if the boys had been vaccinated. So I was looking through their records and the younger boys have all had one. I guess they’re supposed to have two. I don’t know if one is enough to produce immunity but I guess we will see over the next couple of days. My mother-in-law’s brothers were having a retirement party so Elianna and I met the boys there in the late afternoon. After that we had birthdays at Grandmas.

My nieces were sick there too with a lingering cough and cold happening. I never did get sick after dad and the boys but I’m wondering now if this will bring me down to a sick place. I checked with people before I came because I wanted them to be informed that we’d been exposed to this virus. By the time I knew about it I just had to embrace what was there. The kids were playing. My niece was resting. We buried the creature.

So it was all in all a good day. Elianna and I finished painting the dining room before we left. The dining room is slowly getting completed and put back together. My son was disappointed with the results of his race but I still think that he did a great job. Anytime you get out there like that it’s a reason to be proud. The retirement party was nice and produced a good turnout. The birthday party was fun and we all had a good time.