In which we buy Kleenex

Saturday was my mom's last day in Paris, and we were hoping to do something special. Although rain was forecast, we thought that if it looked like it was going to be spotty, we might head out to Disneyland Paris anyway. Otherwise, we would go to the Cité de Science and the Cité des Enfants. In any case, we were not going to spend another day hanging around the apartment.

And then Sapphire and Ezio woke up with coughs and stuffy noses and low grade fevers. Disney was out. The science and children's museums were out. We thought about taking a boat trip down the Canal St. Martin, but decided that we didn't want to risk exposing the kids to any other bugs when they were already fighting colds. So we stayed in the apartment for the most part.

In the early afternoon, Mom and I took Cherry (by far the healthiest of the three) to the Auchan to buy groceries. We picked up 2 big boxes of tissues, and a package of a dozen packets. By dinner, the kids had finished the first box of tissues (and the half box left over from before) plus 5 of the packets. Sapphire was complaining that her nose hurt and was red and she looked like Rudolph. So, after the kids were in bed my mom and I walked back over to the Auchan to pick up two more boxes of tissues and some chapstick to put on Sapphire's nose. (We went through both of those boxes yesterday. I should have bought stock in Kleenex.)