Ewwwww (consider that your warning)

Today we're practicing for summer vacation.


I have all 4 kids home and finally everyone seems to be in good spirits and health (kind of)!


What we've learned over the past two weeks is this...


Poison Ivy

Can you identify poison ivy?  Quiz 1 and Quiz 2

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some itching by an antsy almost 8 year old and an almost perfect attempt of not itching by an anxious 10 year old

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Group A Streptococcus (Group A strep usually causes relatively mild illnesses, such as streptococcal sore throat (strep throat) and streptococcal skin infections (impetigo). Group A strep can also cause more serious illnesses such as scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, postpartum fever, wound infections, and pneumonia.)

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Grossness (I decided not to show photos...but if you're brave...impetigo looks like this.  Jared's nose looks kind of like that, but blocking his nostrils.  And his arms, legs and hands look like this but worse and less hairy. Tyler's hand looks like Jared's body, but just his hand ,and it is swollen like this)

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several days off of school

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lots of medication (how grateful are we for modern day medication!!!!!)

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gratitude that it wasn't worse (because it could always be worse, right?!)