Flu?

Have you had the flu yet this year? Do you know anyone who has? We haven't been sick and I don't know anyone that has, although I think the boys next door may have it. Anyway, when I took Maya in for her 2-month check-up two weeks ago, I asked the doc about the flu because I just haven't heard of people being sick. He told me it really hadn't hit yet this year and he'd recently been notified that the flu had just hit pretty hard over in Europe and health practitioners were told to expect it to hit the U.S. in two weeks. Doc was given that info a week before Maya's appointment which means the flu should affecting us here about now.

Flu season is usually considered November through March but this year it may be different. It will likely be a really mild season or a really late season. My plans have been to keep Maya secluded until March, thinking we'd be out of sickliest time of year by then. She went to Sacrament meeting for her baby blessing but other than that she has not been to church. Looks like we may be staying home longer than I thought. Brent and I take turns staying home from church but I was kind of looking forward to having our whole family at church together sooner rather than later.

When I take Maya out in public, like to the store, I keep her completely covered. And I've drilled it into the other kids to wash their hands when they walk in the door and they have to change their shirts after school if they want to play with the baby.