Goodbye Perfect Attendance

             Last week was the kind of week not unusual to your basic family who has children who attend schools full of kids with germs and viruses and runny noses.  They got sick - but not just one, but two days later, another kid fell prey to the sickness and then two days later Kenny and I suffered a bit and then finally, the last of the family of five, and the messiest, got sick all over the van floor and carseat and herself.  This may not be strange to most, I mean people get sick.  But not us.  Not ALL of us.  It has never happened this way.  We're a healthy crew. That's why I say with great sadness that already, just two months into school all three kids have lost any chance at Perfect Attendance.  I know you're thinking, "Really?" But yeah, for a long time the chance at that coveted award sent Elijah in a tailspin on mornings when he thought we'd be late to school.  But times have changed, and school awards have lost their lustre, and my kids don't seem too worried about that fact.  Actually, they all loved getting to stay home from school since their "being sick" only lasted an hour and then it was TV and video games.   Thanks to the school's 24-hour rule Kenny had the pleasure of keeping each kid, each on a different day.  Such a champ he is - taking the heat - all so I can keep up the Ward tradition, go to work and attempt that perfect attendance.