October has been unusually cruel for us. I caught the "cold" that has been going around the office recently, and ended up missing several days from work, right around Kat's birthday.

Then the kids got it, one after the other, and all 3 of them had to be hospitalized. They all developed croup. First Jolie, then Patrick, and finally Denis who spent quite a few days in the hospital with Kathie.

(The kids are driving me nuts!)