So I was stuck at home all day with a not sick Gustav. He apparently had a slight fever last night (what they refer to here as merely a temperature because it's not high enough to be called a fever) and he told Esther and Olaf that he was still sick this morning, so he stayed home. He was totally fine, though. He didn't have a fever, he wasn't tired at all the entire day, and his stomach only started hurting when he ate too much for lunch.

I, on the other hand, am probably catching what Pauline had. I don't feel that crappy yet, but my throat is sore and my lymph nodes are swollen in my neck, and I feel absolutely exhausted. Tomorrow, once again, I will be taking care of Pauline all day until Esther gets home from work. Gustav is going to Kindergarten tomorrow and afterward he's going home with Domenic to play for a little bit, so hopefully I'll get some relaxation time in the afternoon. This weekend the family is driving to Muenster to visit Silke and Opa and they'll be staying over night there. I'll be home with Amelie, and it's supposed to snow, so we should have fun. Hopefully I won't be too sick, because that always sucks.

I made my second attempt at a pumpkin pie yesterday and it turned out much better than the first one. The crust on the first pie was pretty crappy. It's the first time I've made a pie using butter (because you can't buy shortening in Germany) and it sucked because it wasn't salty enough and the butter melted and made it tough and oily. So this time I used less butter and doubled the salt, and it was much better. Esther and Olaf liked it better, too, but that was mostly because there was less filling in it (I had used almost 2/3 of the pumpkin in the first pie) and they like when the ratio of filling to crust is closer to 1. The only problem with this pie, really, is that I over cooked it a little bit because I turned the temperature up to help keep the crust from being soggy and weird. All in all, not too bad.