I'll get back to the story shortly...

...but for today I am sick and miserable, Joe is home and trying to work and miserable, and Graham is overtired, under-stimulated and miserable.

So ponder this: is it parenting karma that after 6 months of the easiest baby known to man (no colic, sleeps through the night, big huge smiles and giggles) that we now have entered a seemingly never-ending zone of constant low level crankitude? Sigh.