Alas, our Christmas break has thus far not been what we dreamed of. Here's a run down of our past couple days: Wednesday, December 16 th , I came down with a nasty little virus and missed two days of work. It was a little annoying to have to use a few of my precious sick days so close to break, but what are ya gonna do? So I slept, and drank tea, and slept, and as I was getting all mentally prepared to go back on Friday and see my sugar-high sixth graders... Leah got her first stomach bug Thursday night. It was awful. I took her to get a few vaccinations that afternoon, and right after getting the shots she got sick. All over the two of us. (I should mention, that if you're reading this while, say, eating dinner, you might want to come back to it later...) The nurse said she had seen it happen before, it was probably just because she took in too much air crying after getting poked. However, she disproved this hopeful hypothesis later that evening. The poor little gir...