"One lesson I have to learn over and over is that despite our best attempts at being healthy and living a well balanced lifestyle I’m not in complete control of everything all the time. Having children helped me learn that lesson once more last week. My oldest daughter, who rarely gets sick and when she does recovers quickly, got sick and didn’t bounce back so quickly. It stopped us in our tracks, kind of like the nine inches of snow that’s fallen from the sky in the last 24 hours."