As we all know, it's cold and flu season. Yuck!

I hope that you and your family have (so far!) avoided the worst of it. However, if you have a school-aged child who has come down with a sickness that warrants him or her to stay home from school, let me just say-- I feel your pain!

Yes, it's true that when kids are sick, their energy levels are diminished. But, as most parents know, a child's diminished energy level is still often times much higher than an adult's, and when your child is home sick from school, you might find that it doesn't take long for both of you to start climbing the walls with boredom.

So, what can you do when you and your child are stuck home sick? Try some of these (low energy) activities to help keep cabin fever at bay.

No sooner had I settled into bed on Sunday night ready to enjoy the luxury of that next day off, when I woke up a few hours later with that ominous feeling you get inside only when in the grips of a stomach bug.

You know the feeling, I'm sure.

I spent most of Monday asleep--either on the couch downstairs, or upstairs in my room. T. visited me from time to time, with a handful of saltines for me to eat, or with her new Twillerbees dolls for us to play with and I lay there, semi-comatose, and in a fog, while she played around me.