Day 1 of actual deployment began with a hairy commute, daycare closing early, and me deciding to take advantage of the free afternoon by swinging Elaine into the doctor's office for a visit. 
She's had a sore lump on the inside of her thigh for about 10 days. It was time to have it looked at. Expecting to have the doctor say swollen gland, prescribe an antibiotic, and send us off to pick up the rest of the kids to play in the snow, we walked out with a referral to a specialist who "will want to do an MRI."Shoot. Off we go, load everyone up, drive through the snow-storm-turned-ice-storm to the children's surgical specialist. He didn't bat an eye, said it was a swollen gland, and prescribed an antibiotic. Then, as he was giving me a bit of a lecture on keeping every one's stuff separate, keeping blankets laundered, no sharing cups, my three other maniacs who were pent up in the room became relatively quiet and were giggling huddled in the corner. They had suddenly began a group hugging and kissing fest of sibling love.
Sure, we'll keep our germs separate doc. You bet.
In other news: The last I heard from Patric yesterday afternoon he was boarding a plane in Maine headed for Germany.
In other pictures: There will be more on our visit with the Dukes and the Kings (yes, we squeezed one in somewhere in all this mess!). For now, go here to see Sarah's insanely good photographic skills.
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I LOVE the new blog colors and sidebar pics- fantastic.
I know we've discussed this before, but I always think when you have days like this that you must have had a whole lotta fun in your past life!
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