Everybody must get.......sick

Yes, I know I haven't been keeping up to date with this, but it's been just another wonderful week around the Bichler homestead. As I mentioned in the "weekend catchup", Steven and Sara were both sick, which meant only one thing, Suzie and I got sick during the week. I started with horrible stomach cramps Monday night into Tuesday morning. Spent all day Tuesday either napping or on the couch with my laptop and TV. Suzie got sick yesterday and is just recovering from it now. Now we are scrambling around trying to get things taken care of before I leave tomorrow for Illinois. I electronically filed our federal income tax return last night, but due to the 2 k-1 forms from Suzie's family, we had to print out our state return. Got that signed this morning and now Suzie is preparing it for the post office later today. Of course at the same time I am trying to get all the laundry done so I have clean clothes for my trip. Also tried to get together some of the other things I'll need for my trip (hotel confirmation, flight info for my sisters flight, rental car info etc) ready ahead of time.

A few other things going on around here. The grandfather of one of the more talented players on Steven's soccer team was found dead in the lake of a local park.

News account in local paper

Obituary

A very sad story...

In the meantime Suzie is scheduled to work this weekend while I'm away. None of her nieces and nephews are able to help out (no surprise there, they never seem to be able to help out), with the exception of Shawn for a short period of time on Saturday afternoon. She has talked to the high school student next door who also can only watch them for periods of time, since he has previous engagements for sports. I'm not sure what she is going to do the rest of the time. We have talked about several different possibilities, but she hasn't followed up on any of them. I'm afraid that she is going to wait until Friday night and then be unable to find someone to help her. Sigh.

Oh well, back to work. I'll try to make a better effort to keep this up. I'm told there is high speed internet access in the hotel we're staying in, so that shouldn't be an excuse.

Till next time,