Christmas passed and New Year came. It was fast! And after the "Charlie Hebdo," incident, life starts to roll as normal as possible. Or as normal as we want it to be. Still in shock after the attack, still grieving yet we still find hope in every little thing. And we make most of what we have right now.
Specially the time we spend with each other as a family. For as we already realized through what France have gone through, life is short, we need to live it to the fullest.
But it wasn't smooth as we want to be though for...
Most of our January was spent on bed. Our youngest daughter caught a flu, which we (my husband and I) caught after a day with her. Then it was our son (our second child) then the oldest. I realized then that, as parents, we are not invincible. Not to viruses. Not even my hardworking husband who still works even if he is sick didn't stand this virus that we caught or caught us.
Yes, we are human and yes, we can get sick... note taken.
As the "grippe," took our daily activities, we were pinned down on our bed with nothing to do but blow our noses, drink medicines, massage each other with pain relievers, go in and out of the toilet and watch TV and sleep while the TV is on. Of course, we eat but not as heartily than the usual.
At the end of the week and after those antibiotics, we felt much better. Still in bed or should I say in our room (where we spent most of our sick days), the kids started to get bored as we are. So I put out my reserved activity to amuse them. And here it is.
One thing good that came out of it. We had quality time as a family. We realized that even we spend most of our days seeing each other because we are all sick, we never get tired of one another. It only mean one thing. That we love each other that much that we'd rather spend our sick days together than spending it alone.
