Our most interesting was probably the year my eldest was in kindergarten. School closed the day before Christmas Eve. He woke up Christmas eve really ill. We went off to the doctors. He had scarlet fever. Around 2 AM Christmas morning my daughter woke up ill and then when my youngest got up to open the gifts, he threw up all over them. I knew what was wrong and that medication should not wait. Luckily, my best friends husband was a doctor and they lived across the street from us. I called to ask if he thought it necessary for us to go to the ER on Christmas Day. He came over checked the kids out and wrote prescriptions for them and told my husband where he could get them filled. I could have hugged him! I really didn't want to spend Christmas Day sitting in the ER with 2 sick kids!!!