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Thursday already.  Got two kids home sick.  One stayed home…but I think she is feeling better, and one I picked up from school early this afternoon, my youngest, who I think is feeling really bad.  If he does have h1n1, how will I know?  they don’t want you to come to the doctors office if you have the flu. And if he does have it, then how does that alter him getting the vaccine if and when it does become available?  He does feel a bit feverish, but chugged a big glass of water before I could take his temp, and then I just gave him advil after that….so maybe I will try later.  He had the seasonal flu vaccine over a month ago.  Oh well, you can only wash your hands so much….what can you do?  I feel bad for him though.  He is napping right now….at least that is what I told him to do.  He is up in his room.

It is a fairly nice fall day today.  Took a walk through the woods and my neighborhood with the dog.  The paths through the woods are completely covered in leaves…its pretty, but it makes trying to follow the paths a bit disorienting.  I am not that great finding my way through them, but I like to take the dog back there, because if she poops, I make her go a ways off the path, and then I don’t have to carry it around with me!

I made a great, great make over dish for dinner last night, and had the rest for lunch today.  I made a chicken in lemon butter dish, which worked out to 5 pts per breast.  The sauce was to die for!  I made sure to make an index card with the ingredients and directions for my index card holder of dinner ideas with points.   Served it last night with some risotto and broccoli, but just had broccoli and cauliflower this afternoon with it.  Yum, yum!  I also made a banana bar recipe out of an issue of taste of home healthy cooking ( yes, the mag I got my recipe put into, just a different edition).  I tweaked it even more, by replacing some of the sugar with splenda.  I got it down to one point per bar without frosting, and three points with.  They came out pretty good.  They would have been better had my bananas been more ripe, but they didn’t have any overripe ones to buy at the store, so I had to pick ones that were the most ripe…which wasn’t really very ripe at all.

So I guess thats it for today….weekend is only a day away!