This week has gotten kind of crummier as it's gone along. On Monday morning I went to get Jill up for school and she had a fever. I kept her home that day and she laid on the couch looking miserable with a sore throat. Timmy came down looking miserable and laid next to her. Jill threw up a bit Monday night and then took a bath and seemed to feel just fine when she was done, so I sent her back to school. When she got home, though, she laid on the couch looking miserable again, and then she fell asleep until dinner time. I kept her home yesterday. Hyrum is sick too. He's spent a lot of time sleeping. He was determined to walk to Seminary today even though he's not feeling 100%, and I think he's regretting that. I'm going to go pick him up after he's done and encourage him to sleep. And I've been getting whatever it is too. My throat isn't sore, but it feels funny and is full of guck, and I keep coughing and blowing my nose. Michael came home from school sick yesterday but is back today. I'm not sure how sick he really is, but oh well. Joshua's been trying his darndest (or at least the darndest he knows how to try) to stay well, but it hasn't worked. Poor guy. He's gone back to bed. Jill is back at school today. Timmy has missed both of his school days so far this week. So far he has looked the sickest of anyone. His eyes have been red and he's just kind of been silent. I hope he can go to school today. Yesterday his nose was running like a faucet. He doesn't ever blow it, so he was wiping it like every 30 seconds. We had toilet paper all over the family room. I caught him a couple of times wiping his nose on the roll of toilet paper (I'm too cheap to buy Kleenex) because he was in a hurry to wipe it. Ew! I just really, really hope that Henry doesn't get it, but I'm worried because I've been coughing a lot, and I hold him a lot. Benji has stayed well, though, and Jeremy says he already had it. He thinks he brought it home. I don't know. Something has been going around here. Lots of people have been sick.
Benji is super excited because tonight is his first band concert. He's been talking about it all semester and it's finally here. Yesterday his band practiced at the Middle School where they'll be playing for the concert, and the middle school band watched them play and then cheered for them. Benji was so proud and so excited to be using the Middle School's instruments. :) This semester has been so good for him! I'm so thankful! He says the coolest piece they'll be performing tonight is called Entrada. That's the one where he'll be doing suspended cymbal. He's been talking about it a lot and is so, so excited. I am just so happy for him! I'm excited to go watch. I think I'll leave the younger kiddos home with one or more of the bigger kiddos so we don't have to chase anyone. We'll see.
I've been working again on that Badger Family History book. I've been smarter about it this time around. I'm still pretty sad that all that work is lost. I've been doing a lot of work on FamilySearch as I go, too. I wish I had done that before. When my computer crashed I lost all the research I'd done because I didn't share a lot of it on FamilySearch, and the Legacy (family history software) file I had had last been backed up like 2 years ago. Heartbreaking! So this time I'm being smart and sharing with FamilySearch. I knew I should have in the first place. I guess I was being lazy and a little afraid to change what other people put on there. For shame! Maybe it's good that I lost it all so I'd be a good girl and share this time. A lot of what I'm sharing is sources that back up dates and places. It feels good to be contributing. It's so exciting to be able to fill in blank spots. :)
And speaking of that book, yesterday I was feeling sick and working on the book at the same time, and I came to this lady who had 4 husbands listed. It made me feel absolutely apathetic. When there are more than one spouse listed, I have to go make sure they really were married. Well, I like to make sure about all the marriages, but 4 husbands is four times the work. And there just really aren't Utah marriage records that I've been able to find before about 1900. I looked it over, though, and saw that this lady's first husband died, then she married and divorced two other guys before settling on the last one. I still am not 100% sure she was married to all of them, but I'm probably as sure as I'm going to get. It's interesting looking at these little bits of stories and wondering what kind of people they must have been. I always wonder whose idea it was to divorce and why. I guess I have this silly picture in my head that marriages back then were free from troubles. That's silly because people have never since the dawn of time been perfect.
And speaking of stories, my favorite thing about having Chrome Cast is that when it's not connected to a device the TV shows all sorts of neat pictures. There are some from Getty Images and some from US National Parks and some from all sorts of places. It is so cool. I LOVE it! I often just leave the TV on just so I can see the pictures throughout the day. The pictures make me remember what the girl on Sabrina said - that every time she looks through a camera she feels like she's catching someone in the middle of a story. It's so true! Who knows what in those people's lives led the photographer and the photographee (ha ha!) to that very spot in the universe. What was going on in their lives when that picture was taken. Very cool to think about. :)
All right. That's enough for now. I'ma pick Hyrum up from Seminary and go out shopping.
