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One of those days...

A big week of 'firsts' for us this week! My Big Girl started school and Little Girl is supposed to start kindy this week! But today my Big Girl is sick on her second day and Little Girl has been sick too. And I'm also sick. Our house is filled with wailing and coughing. We've been slammed with sickness since Baby Boy was 1 week old. There hasn't been a day since then that we've all been 100%. I feel like bathing in Dettol. But things will be a bit easier this term , I thought, as I tried to calm Baby Boy (while his big sister shrieked in terror as the toddler chased her around the couch with a baseball bat). Yes, things will be easier. They say when you become a parent, you become more patient. Well, I seem to have plenty of patience when there are a lot of witnesses around. I get frustrated by the smallest things. My five-year-old takes forever  to eat food. She just kind of stores the food up in her cheeks like a squirrel. It is excruciating to wat