day 68: on Wednesday both Amelia and Paul were looking decidedly less sick and both Ben and my mom were successful in convincing me that the kids would be ok staying with grandma while I was gone. I packed everyone up and headed down to drop them off so that I could go on my mom’s weekend away. The weekend trip was to New Orleans and all of the moms going ordered matching shirts to wear to the St. Patrick’s day parade on Saturday but mine didn’t arrive in time (stupid shirt… grr) so I made my own at the last minute. Go ahead and laugh.