Another month kicked off with illness. This time respiratory/sinus-based and the adults of the house were the recipients! We never felt bad, but the drainage wreaked havoc on our throats. I lost my voice for a few days and our noses were stuffy. Thankfully, that was all it dealt out and Little Man was unscathed.

Little Man’s recovery from surgery was uneventful. We kept him home from speech and preschool for the week, though he probably would have been fine. You’d never know he had it done based on how he acted. The only thing that suggested he was on the mend was his rough time sleeping on about the 3rd night and some excessive whining. He requested medicine, so I knew he wasn’t feeling well. Luckily, it was short-lived.

We were thrilled to have the Mister home for the week, too. He had staff duty the day before surgery, so he went straight from there to home, then right the surgical center. He took off Wednesday and Thursday and was lucky enough to have Friday be a DONSA. It was awesome having him home during the first week or recovery, especially with me being under the weather worse than he was.

Despite the sickly start, we still made it to Home Depot for the monthly workshop.

As we got into the month, we struggled a bit to get back into our normal routine. But we managed. The weather was warmer so getting out of the house was easier.

We packed the 2nd weekend of the month with a busy Saturday. We started with the Lowes workshop.

Then we headed to Nashville to attend the Chinese Arts Association of Nashville’s Chinese New Year festival again this year. It was pouring down rain, but they moved it to the fairgrounds where the whole thing was under a roof in an arena, so it was a pleasant day.

We also checked out McKay’s Used Books. I was so looking forward to checking it out, but came out bitterly disappointed. It was a huge, gymnasium-sized bookstore with records, dvds, and, of course, books, but it was so disorganized and full of people that it was an overwhelming and frustrating experience. It didn’t help that I couldn’t find any of the books I was hunting. It was very much an Instagram vs. Reality moment.

The next week kicked off Valentines Day festivities. Little Man had his party at school.

The Mister and I actually made dinner reservations to try a restaurant we’d never been to before on Valentines Day.

And of course, we did Valentine photos for Little Man with Bri (The Lovely Rose Photography and Design Co).

On the 15th, we celebrated Indie girl turning 5.

The rest of the month was calm, though the sickness bug came back during the last two weeks. Little Man brought home a rattly, wet cough from preschool and started running a fever. It seemed like it would be short-lived. His fever only stuck around for a night, though his cough stayed around. Preschool called me on the last Tuesday of the month to tell me he was crying from coughing so much and wanted his mommy. I should have known it was coming back to bite us when half of his class was out sick the last week or so.

We kept him home from speech again on Wednesday and I decided last minute to go ahead and keep him home from preschool Thursday. The first week of March is his spring break, so I’m hoping all of the sickness clears out by the time he has to go back to school.

The Mister and I are slowly but surely declining. Our coughs are terrible and my nose is so stuffed up, I can’t smell or taste anything unless I really concentrate. With the stuffy nose, of course, comes horrible nosebleeds for me. I am so beyond ready to feel better (or at least feel slightly less congested/coughing my lungs out).

Guess I’d rather have it now than late next month when we have lots of activities planned.

Next month will see our workshops and Easter. We are returning to Cheekwood for their egg hunt and this year we’re also attending the Holi festival. The Mister has staff duty on Easter (because why wouldn’t he?), so we’ll deal with that by either celebrating early or late (not that we do much other than eat and dye eggs).

We are looking forward to a visit from my father-in-law mid-March, and we’ll see if my parents will swing a visit during their spring break. Busy month ahead. Come on, sickness, scoot!

Until then,