Given that it’s April Fools Day, you would THINK, that I would be posting some extremely CLEVER and FUNNY kind of thing.

Or that I’d try to TRICK you today with some bad thing that turned out to be phony and you were pulled in.

Look, if you want clever and funny you’ll have to excuse me.

My kids both have the flu. Yeah. Annie is sick now, too. I’m going to assume it’s the same thing that Carla has. I should be feeling sorry for my poor little muffins, but instead I am feeling sorry for myself.

Don’t want to have to nurse two little kids back to health! They keep refusing to eat my chicken soup with rice! One of them whines constantly AND refuses to take the specially purchased orange flavored Jr. Strength Motrin TM. Oh geez, don’t want to have to clean up any more barf either.

The worst part was the guilt. Today, upon telling C that it was time for me to head to work (reminder: for 3 1/2 hours) she began to wail and clutch at me, in her most dramatic voice, “No mommy, don’t leave me! I need you to snuggle me ! Stay! You can’t leave me here!”

Not an easy thing to do: walking out the door with that kind of guilt trip. It wasn’t until after I got home from work that I discovered Annie was warm as well. Here we go, thought I. Two sick kids for the price of one.

I’ll do my best to A) stay sane B) take care of them and C) not get sick myself.

Well, gotta go. Hubby and I have an appointment to work on our taxes this evening. FUN!