A cough that lasts nine weeks or more.

That is what plaques my youngest child. Once she gets a runny nose, or a sore throat it moves around and around in her system, and eventually settles in the lungs for months on end of intermittent phlegmy coughing fits that keep her up at night, on a weekly basis. Not every single night, but at least 2 or 3 a week. And if the previous five years are any indication there isn’t much we can do besides wait it out. Which is taxing and unfair. But what are we gonna do about it. At this point, beyond children’s cough medicines (which are still ridiculously hard to come by) there isn’t much we can do. I try to keep them both in masks if out and about indoors, and at school, but something always follows them home. Fun.

Getting lots of outdoor activities done while we have all of this lovely sunshine. Making up for lost time due to Covid infections, so not working on my own leaves this weekend. Much to my chagrin. The leaves would be do dry & crispy. Just about perfect conditions for my electric leave mulcher/ bagger. I do hope it doesn’t rain between now and Monday morning, so I can get some of it done while it’s all in such great condition outside.

Catching a sunrise this morning, against my will I might ad. I would much prefer to get an extra hour or two of sleep on a Sunday morning, by sicky coughy McGee over here put the kibosh on that happening. In other news the kids are still going hardcore for the Rainvow Loom toy making all sorts of crafts with it. Nice to see some stick with it ness from both kids for a change. They usually pass from one thing to the next in a constant stream of “I want, I want”, but in this case they’ve been doing it for more than a month now, and still going strong. Of course, now that I’ve said it, it will get put aside and forgotten about for weeks on end.

Halloween is just around the corner, so you can sense the kids buzzing with excitement. Their ideas for what they are going to be change daily, if not hourly. Flip flopping between monsters, grim reapers, walking dead, fairies, and frogs or a chicken. The silly thing is, we have the costumes on hand to be any one of these things. They love going to grandma’s to hand out candy at their house to all the neighborhood kids, and then we hit up a few houses on the walk home, plus our nearest neighbours too. I tend to stay home and hand out candy myself while I watch Alien/Aliens or something I can’t watch with the kids around.