Keep Away

This is a warning to all of our friends, family, and people who might get within 10 feet of our children at a shopping mall, grocery store, day care, or church:

PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM OUR KIDS!

We can't take it any more. Yet again, Grant and Grace have low grade fevers and colds. Yet again, my Tivo remote and surrounding furniture are covered in a thin veil of snot. Once more, I am forced to listen to my two precious children hack and cough all night, forcing me out of my own much needed beauty rest.

So please, help a family out, and stay the heck away from us. If you have kids, and you think they might have a cold or have had one in the last, let's say, five years, stay away. If you've recently touched a sick person or have ever known a sick person, stay away. If you've ever handled anything like a door knob in a public place -- stay away. If you yourself have ever needed a Kleenex, for any reason, please, stay away.

Just give us a chance to heal for more than two weeks this time. Please? PLEASE?! We're begging you. Grant and Grace are really going to hate living in a plastic bubble in the garage.