Five years ago...

Five years ago today our house was all kinds of a mess.  Thomas had been sick the previous week with a low grade fever, and over the weekend had broken out in a rash.  Robert had also developed a slight fever, and I had a cold/sinus infection that was so miserable the "gunk" was literally coming out of my eyes.  I remember driving to pick up my husband from an event, and because my eyes were so bad and it was after dark everything was blurry and I could barely see.  Why do I remember this exact date.  Well, first of all I just seem to have a "knack" for that, but secondly it was when we were in the middle of trying to sell our house and we were having an open house that very Sunday...five years ago yesterday.  Anyway, since Thomas had developed the rash on top of his low grade fever I had Andrew take him to the doctor.  We were all a little astounded when it was revealed that he had chicken pox!  After all, he'd been vaccinated properly.  I immediately had Robert pull up his shirt and sure enough, the same "rash" was on him as well.  We quarantined ourselves for Thanksgiving because our plans had been to be with my dad (and his suppressed immune system) and my cousins, all of whom had young children.  Not to mention, I felt pretty lousy myself.  My in-laws went ahead and came to our house as they had been planning to do, and we had a very quiet Thanksgiving meal here.  Since it was such short notice on us, we decided to do a ham for the meal instead of turkey.  In retrospect, it was one of the most pleasant Thanksgivings.  I love being able to see so much family, but at the same time it was also very nice NOT to have to run around from house to house to see everyone.  Definitely a very memorable time in our lives.  As I pointed out to the kids at dinner this evening...based on the statistics in our house the vaccine is only 33% effective!