It was surprisingly a really quiet day in the Simpson household it wasn't usually like this but mainly the reason was because Marge Simpson the mother of the house and came down with the flu. "Honey you've been put on bed rest for weeks now I know it's just the flu but I'd be more then welcome to help you out with anything I'll even miss work just for you!" Homer said putting on his tie "No Sweetie please go to work I'll be fine I'll just call your dad to see if he can watch Maggie " Homer walked over to his wife and stroked her face "Wow You are really hot like fever hot" Marge leaned back on the pillows "Wow I can't believe I fall for this every time" she said sarcastically. "Well I'll come by to check on you and just for you I won't be going to Moe's" Marge kissed her husband's forehead "Homie I don't want you to worry about me you've haven't been there for weeks I'll be fine. By the way can you take the kids to school?" Homer nodded and squeezed his wife's hand "anything for my Marge" He walked to the door and looked back "I love you" he said smiling and closing the door " I don't know what to do" He walked downstairs to see his 2 beautiful children Bart and Lisa waiting at the door "Ok kids ready to go to school?" They both nodded and walked to the car but all Homer can think about is Marge and wondering if she's going to be ok. "Hey Dad do you think mom will be ok?" Lisa suddenly said Breaking the silence Homer looked at his daughter in the rear view mirror "I hope so Sweetie she has been in bed all week for the past 3 weeks I wanna be there for her but she doesn't want me to" Bart who was listening to music took out one of his earplugs "Maybe we can surprise her by giving her a get well soon card". Everyone nodded at that idea "Wow Bart that's a great idea why didn't you come up with that 3 weeks ago?" Lisa said rolling her eyes "It just came to me just now!" Homer and Lisa groaned. They eventually pulled up to school Homer waved goodbye to his kids and drove off to the power plant. Homer has gotten really distracted with what he was doing lately he couldn't bare to see his wife ill "Ugh come on Brain please focus I have a lot of things to do I'll think about my wife later" He then got an announcement on the intercom "Homer Simpson Please come to my office or I'll have to realize the hounds!" Mr. Burns said . Homer was not in the mood to talk or speak to anyone he even avoided his friends Lenny and Carl he never did that before in his life but today was not his day or the last 3 weeks haven't been his weeks. He walked to his bosses office "Look Mr. Burns I am not in a good mood today so please make it short" His boss looked at him with annoyance "UGH I have Hearing this the past three weeks please give me something else. Look You haven't been doing ANYTHING since your wife became sick but YOU NEED to start CARING about your JOB or your FIRED" Homer rolled his eyes "Fine I'll get back to work but emphasize those words" Mr. Burns looked back at him "I can't help it it's fun!". Homer walked was walking back to his workplace when suddenly he heard "HOMER!" It was his best friends Lenny and Carl they were awfully worried about him so they decided to talk to him "You know Burns is right you need to start focusing more on Work that's the whole reason why you came here right?" Homer wasn't really in the mood to talk so he just nodded "Buddy we know how you feel about Marge we all want her to feel better how about we go grab some doughnuts and talk about life since we haven't talked since three weeks ago" Carl said. Homer smiled a little bit "Guys I'm flattered I really am but I rather just get back to work". The two guys looked at each other they have heard that saying for weeks now. "Listen I know how hard we tried to get Homer to talk to us but I think it's best if we leave him alone a while longer" Carl said "But-" Lenny said "It's for our own good". After work, Homer picked up the kids from school and took them to the pharmacy to get medicine for Marge and to the arts and crafts store to get some stuff to make a card "I'm thinking glitter to the card!" Lisa says grabbing two sticks of glitter. Bart Rolled his eyes and grabbed some radical stickers "No I'm thinking we can get these really cool stickers to put on the card" Lisa rubbed her forehead "No Bart we are using glitter!" "Stickers!" Bart said "Glitter!" Lisa said they kept saying until Homer got a headache "God how about there can be both!" He said grabbing his kids wrists to the checkout line they feel bad for making their dad's day even worse. That Night Bart and Lisa were working on their card when the phone rang "I'll get it!" Marge said running down the stairs into the kitchen "Hello? Yes this is she. Wait really?" Bart and Lisa can hear their mom's voice from all the way downstairs so the decided to stop what they were doing and hear what going it's probably boring but they just want a quick listen. "Oh wow. Ok that must explain it. Oh my god this is really happening" She says under her breath "what's going on?" Lisa said "No idea?" Bart said "Ok thanks for telling me I'll stop by tomorrow thanks bye bye". Marge putted the phone back when she said her kids standing there she decided that she can tell them the news. "Kids I have some news to tell you" She suddenly felt a churn in her stomach "Right after I go throw up for the fifth time today Bart go grab Maggie and meet me in the living room!" She said really fast they had no idea what just happened but did what they were told.