Change of Plans

We were planning on spending New Year’s Eve in Minneapolis, but instead we spend that day and several surrounding it laid up at home with a nasty stomach bug. I am now carrying several bottles of hand sanitizer with me everywhere I go and adopting Howie Mandel’s practice of fist-bumping instead of hand shaking! However, we did get one night away on the very last night of the kids’ Christmas vacation from school. A hotel in Des Moines with a pool did the trick for our once disappointed kids. They forgot about our miserable few days and forgot about (though temporarily)the freezing cold weather outside. Next year we are going somewhere warm and with hazmat suits on to protect from any viruses!