swallowing medicine...and marbles...

Well after a relatively healthy winter, two out of my three kids are sick. Bridger has been feverish and listless--and has a hoarse voice. Kes has a cold--so we took a sick day from church. But that isn't what I was worried about. Bailey was wreathing in pain on Saturday. I thought she had appendicitis. She told me, "mom, I didn't want to tell you this, but I swallowed a marble a couple days ago, and I think it is coming out of my skin." I thought--fabulous--there goes our tax return--spent getting a marble removed from Bailey's intestine where it has apparently lodged itself. Fortunately, she did "pass" the marble so now I can focus on runny noses and fevers!