Toothbrushes and musical beds

Sounds fun huh? I think this winter’s visit to my in-laws will go down as one of our less successful. On the positive side, no-one has suffered any lasting damage, but a visit which starts with the John’s parents developing Norovirus within hours of our arrival, and despite his mother’s best attempts to decontaminate the house to within an inch of its life once they were up, John and I both succumbing 4 days later, wasn’t going to be the best. But we did manage to get home today, and the children haven’t gone down with it (yet – ever the optimist).

As for the post title – in an attempt to keep people out of the ‘firing line’, sick people slept upstairs, people who hadn’t been sick stayed downstairs. Ruth managed to stay in the same bed every night (she was the only one)- I clocked up the biggest total with no fewer than 4 different bedrooms. And we may have been a bit oversensitive about toothbrushes, but we weren’t taking any chances.

And now, I’m going to curl up under a blanket and pretend I’m watching tv before crawling up to bed.

four comments:

Ugh! Hopefully you are feeling much better now.

Chris () (link) - 03 January '09 - 17:39

Oh, lots of love and hugs. We, too, have been a bit ill over christmas (flu type stuff), but nothing’s as bad as tummies gone wrong.

Big Ruth () - 03 January '09 - 22:07

All my ‘stuff’ pales into complete insignificance, nobody has been remotely ill. Just really grumpy… Hope you are all, and remain, much better. Hugs x

Louise () (link) - 04 January '09 - 10:52

Euw, that sounds so grim. I hope Adam and Ruth are still OK and that you’re feeling a lot better now. I had the fluey/coldy thing over Christmas (couldn’t stand up for one weekend. Very weird) but nothing as bad as Norovirus.

Daisy () (link) - 04 January '09 - 22:41

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