Sickies

First, the good news. I did get my phone back. Hooray!! I walked up to the class where I left it (this was the last day of class for Winter term) and it was sitting on a chair outside the door. I personally felt like that was a really good way for someone ELSE to pick up, but that's not what happened. Anyway, it worked out fine. They had hit a reset button the phone before they gave it back so I had to re-load everything that used to be on it before, but even that I don't mind, since I at least had the phone.
The other good news is that the Winter term is over. Last week was finals. I think I did reasonbly well on most of it, although the Earth Sciences one has me a little worried. Ive worked hard on my grades the last couple of years and I'd like to make the Dean's List again; we'll see if I did well enough to manage that this time. It's not much, but I at least know for certain that I dind't fail anything; I definitely got A's in theatre arts and pe, but those are both kind of hard to fail. I think I have a B to an A in Spanish, and I think I'll come away with at least a B in science. Laying it all out like that makes it sound like I am unreasonably stressing over grades that are really just fine, but there's a reason Steve pokes fun at me and calls me a 'Hermione'.
The unfortunate thing at the moment is that even though the kids and I are home on spring break, we're all sick. Like hacking up phlegm, sniffly noses, sore throats, achy muscles, and the lot. We haven't left the house since the Pinewood Derby on Saturday. We may have to actually go into the doctor tomorrow if we don't start improving since we all have to be better by Monday; school waits for no man. In the meantime, I've tried out a couple of home remedies for expectorants today. The one for a ginger, clove, and cinnamon tea was awful; the ginger gave it way too much bite. I wasn't impressed with the bay leaves tea because it didn't taste like anything at all, but lack of flavor is one of the reasons I don't like drinking tea anyway. The other two that I tried were thyme and savory teas which, sweetened with a little honey, were definitely my favorites.
So hopefully the sick status improves greatly and really soon. The bad thing is that Steve seems to be getting sick now. I know this sounds a little bad, but I'm glad at least that I'll be feeling better by the time it really hits him; it's a whole lot easier to take care of another sickie when I'm not sick.