Everyone's Much Better

I think we had a case of food poisoning. After Abbie got sick at about 1:00 a.m., Ben brought his sick self down the stairs at about 3:00 a.m. So all three big kids were awake and sick all night long. Then at about 6:00 a.m. I was sick as well! December 10th was NOT a good day in our household. Toward the evening, people started feeling better. We had an uneventful (read blissfully calm) night and everyone slept well. Today we are all feeling much better, though not quite 100%. Looks like we will be back in business tomorrow. As of this writing, Myles has dodged this bullet which is why I believe the food poisoning theory to be true (though it's too early to say that he is out of the woods yet). He ran himself ragged yesterday taking care of everything and everyone yesterday!

We are all sitting here watching Rudolph together tonight. I think we will try to venture out somewhere tomorrow since we have not been out of the house in days. We may head to Old Town to see the Christmas booths that are set up. And we are definitely on the look out for a new Mashed Potato Bowl!

I am really looking forward to the days getting longer! It gets dark so early here. It is very hard for us to get used to. I used to grumble about winters in KC when it gets dark at 5:00. I'm pretty sure I will not ever grumble about that again! But the solstice is very close, and once we are past it the days will quickly get longer. In January the sunset is four to seven minutes later each day. So it will be noticeable every week. On Christmas day we are taking a train to Warszawa for the night. Then the next day we are taking a train to Bratislava, Slovakia for a few days. Then we are headed to Budapest, Hungary. We will spend New Year's with some other Fulbrighters and their families there. Then when we get back on January 3rd, we should already be able to notice the longer days. We know that when we are enjoying the fabulous spring and very long summer days in June, these short days will be a distant memory.