Bad Week/Good Day

The whole family has been sick this week.
Abby was sick last Friday and Saturday.
Phoebe was sick last Saturday and Sunday.
Phoebe came home sick from school on Tuesday.
Abby was sick Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday and today.
I was sick Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday and a little better today.
Perry is starting to get sick today.
Fun times throwing up, diarrhea, fevers, body aches, and I have a major sore throat.
That's the bad part of the week.

The good part of the day was that I got out of the house and bought me a new vacuum.
I know....such a thrill.
Well it is a thrill when the old vacuum refuses to pick up anything anymore.

I got a coupon in the mail from Kohl's for 30% off anything.
I went to Kohl's and saw that the one I wanted was on sale. Bonus points!
But they were out of them. Figures.
I drove to another Kohl's and yay, they had some in stock.
So with their 15% off sale, and my 30% off I got my vacuum for 45% off! ( No s#*t Sherlock.)
I got a total of $91.00 off my vacuum. Plus, I got $20 in Kohls cash to spend next week.

It's a Bissell. Bagless! How cool is it to see all the dirt and crud that comes out of your carpet?! Yup, it's gross. But I love it. Now if it could only do laundry.

brought to you by the letter "Y"

We have the letters of the alphabet in magnets on our refrigerator, so I closed my eyes and picked a letter for today's post.
So this post is brought to you by the letter "Y".

Yipee... it's the weekend. No having to get dressed to bring the girl's to school. Just sitting here in my cozy bathrobe until I decide to get out of it.

Yikes...I hear my children singing opera up in their room. Good grief. They are not opera singers. Or I should say, they are not good opera singers.

Yuck...I have a sore throat. I am also coughing up junk. I am swallowing Echinacea tablets to keep this from turning into a full blown cold.

Yellow....is the color of the junk I'm coughing up. Not that you needed to know that, but yellow is a "Y" word.

Yesterday...I got a popcorn hull stuck in my throat. Actually I think it got stuck in my windpipe. Man that hurt. It stayed there for most of the night stabbing me in the throat. This morning I woke up and it was gone, but now my windpipe is sore along with my sore throat from the cold I'm trying to prevent.

Yardwork...is on the agenda for this weekend. Leaves are falling, flowers and shrubs are dying and need to be cut. Our yard needs to be put to bed for the winter. It's going to be a beautiful, sunny day today and tomorrow, so yardwork it is.

Yet...how can I help with yardwork if I'm going to be gone most of the day? My sister is having her sisters and some other girls over for a "her husband's out of town" party. Hubby is going to have to do yardwork without me.

Yeah....like that's gonna happen.

Yet again...he could surprise me and start without me. I know I used the word "yet" twice.

Yes...I know I'm running out of things to say with using the letter "Y" so...

Y'all...have a great weekend. I'm not southern so I should write...

Yous...guys have a great weekend. No..I am in the North, but I'm not a Jersey girl so...

You...all have a great weekend. OK, that's more like me.

Things that bummed me this week

Of course good things happened this week, but tonight I am highlighting the things that bummed me. In no particular order...

1. It rained most of the week. Along with high winds and hail.
2. Which in turn made our basement wet.
3. Which got a ton of my wrapping paper wet. I believe a box of blankets got wet too, but I don't want to dig to the bottom of the box to find out.
4. One of my children had a fever for 3 days.
5. So I took my other child to the mall just to get away for awhile. While there, we noticed that girls wear their shorts just below their buns. I informed my child that she will never own a pair of those shorts.
6. My husband was working at home all week. Yes this bums me....nothing gets done when he's home. That and the fact that sometimes he just bugs me.
7. Went to my daughters friends house with my two, to play with their two. The house is so perfect and spotless and no way looks like two kids live there. (OK, I'll be the first to call it jealousy) The visit was nice though.
8. Spent tons of money just grocery shopping. Why does it always happen that you need all the expensive things at once. (toilet paper, cat litter, laundry soap...the list goes on)
9. I needed to go to shopping twice, because my cart was too full to load everything in it the first time .
10. I made a great supper the night after shopping and nobody was hungry.
11. Got questioned by a security guard at a hospital while geocaching. (He was cool with it)
12. Had way too many hot flashes last night.
13. Cut my grass twice this week.
14. Took my daughter to a birthday party at a park today. Some little kids dirty diaper was changed on top of a picnic table with no padding under him. Not once, but twice. Two different picnic tables. I'll never eat off a picnic table without a tablecloth again.
15. My other daughter had a friend over today. This friend ate most of my Hershey bars. Not sure if I should be bummed by this or thank her for saving me from eating them.
16. I quickly finished my library book this morning so I could go to the library and get a new one for the rest of the weekend. The library is closed on Saturdays in the summer.


Ok so this is not the happiest of posts. I will end with a few good things.

1. Payday was Friday, and all the bills are paid.
2. The cupboards aren't bare.
3. We found our 1000th geocache in less than one year since we started doing this.
4. My child's fever is gone.
5. My daughters Hershey bar fiend, I mean friend, is gone.
6. My husband goes back on the road Monday.
7. Hopefully all the rain that is yet to come will wash away the poopy picnic table filth.

Why not write

I have been lacking in posting anything here because my life has been uneventful.

But then I roam around others blogs, and see that their life is uneventful too, but I really enjoy reading anyway.

So here are some of my uneventful events from the past week.

Random things my children have said...
Abby singing in the car the other morning... " I'm missin' my husband! (I guess she forgot to invite me to the wedding)
Phoebe in bed last night when I went to kiss her and say goodnight.... (turns head away from me) "I'm not talking to you". sheesh...what did I do to her? (I did throw a bible verse at her about not going to bed angry and about forgiveness) She forgave me and is again talking to me.
Abby in bed last night...."Are you going to spend time with your hideous husband?" Where did she learn that word?! I told her that wasn't a nice word, and she said "I know" Well, don't say that, my husband is not hideous.

Not a Viking fan, but a Brett Favre fan, so enjoyed seeing the team win and get another step closer to the Super Bowl.

Amazed more and more at God each and every day.

Enjoyed an afternoon of Geocaching on Saturday with my family. Fell face first in the snow and had a hard time getting up. (It was deep and I was holding a GPS over my head so it wouldn't get snow filled.) You can laugh. I did.

Got a neighbors mail.. twice. Mr. Postman....she just lives across the street. I know you can get it that far....because it's your job!

Still have some shingles hanging around. Pain is almost gone. If I move my arm a certain way, it hurts. Feels like I got punched. Sore muscle.

I'm reading a good book, but I keep falling asleep while reading.

Am looking forward to slipping in to my bed of clean sheets tonight, and let hubby know it. Hubby tells me he wants to dirty them up.

See...uneventful. Well tonight may be eventful but I won't post about that. ;o)

Weekend words

I had a wonderful weekend. That may not sound so nice since my hubby has been gone all weekend hunting. He was missed, but his snoring was not. I slept well.

Went to my sisters house on Saturday for her birthday party. She lives out in the country, and the weather was so beautiful for November in WI, that the drive made me want her to live farther away. My sisters and I and a great time celebrating with her. I ate too much.

Church is always a pleasant place to be on a Sunday morning. The kids had a bake sale for missions and I bought some cherry bars (too doughy) and the most incredible applesauce, raisin bread I have ever eaten. It being covered in cinnamon and sugar didn't hurt either. It's half gone. (Shred video coming up)

The girls and I went to the cheap seats movie, Partly Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. I liked it a lot. Pretty funny. My beef about it....the theater is huge, about 30 people showed up, and a huge family had to sit right behind us. And they soooo sneaked popcorn in, because popcorn does not come in paper bags and it was so noisy with their hands rattling the bags all through the movie. I know, I know, we should have moved. We didn't, I survived. I still liked the movie.

The best part of the weekend started on Friday. Abby had a playdate with a friend from school. I went with her and had a great time with the mom. She mentioned her and her husband were married 10 years, I mentioned I was married 10 years, and started having children at a late age. She said "ya right, you're not old" "There is no way you are over 40"!!! I LOVE HER! I told her I was 48 and she just about dropped. What a great way to start a weekend.


Tomorrow....Thanksgiving dinner shopping. I must get that turkey thawing!

What a Week!

Sick sucks. It just does. I wasn't sick, Phoebe was. Pneumonia.

A small case, but nevertheless, pneumonia.
She was home from school for 4 days. Which means a pile of homework. I picked it up on Wednesday, and she slowly picked at it throughout Wednesday and Thursday.

Her fever finally went away, and she went to school today. It was so sweet how her classmates yelled out her name as they saw her come in. Her teacher gave her a hug and said she was glad to see her back. Hmmm, am I glad she went back? 2 cases of strep in her class and a case of head lice in the school. sigh.

With Abby in school for 3 hours, 3 days a week, I was kind of looking forward to having some alone time, because I had tons of stuff to do to get ready for Abby's birthday party tomorrow. Sickness didn't let that happen for me.

But then Phoebe did go to school today which gave me 3 hours to get all that shopping done. Right?

Wrong.

I was having some chest pains the other night, along with pain running down the arm and across the jaw. Heart attack! I called Perry at 1:30 a.m. across the states and I really should know better. I was feeling OK and just wanted some sympathy lovin, but he got all freaked out on me. "Call the hospital, get an ambulance, call my mom to watch the girls"!!! Sheesh! He finally made me call a 24 hour nurse and see what they said, and she said the pain would have stayed and gotten worse. It did not do this so I wasn't too worried. I did not need to rush off to a hospital at 2 in the morning.

Perry wanted me to get it checked out so I had a treadmill stress test this morning. Good grief that's a killer. I love to walk, but I normally don't run extremely fast uphill. I made it through and the nurse didn't see anything major, but the heart specialist has to check it out and I'll know next week my results. Next week! I could be dead by then. Nahhh...really I feel fine and it was probably just acid reflux, which I am told has the same symptoms.

Couldn't have anything to do with the half a bag of Ruffles I ate late that night now could it?

I don't feel this test was a waste of time though. Better to be safe than sorry.

I did vlog all of this, but it wanted no part of uploading to a post. Another wonderful part of my week.

I did make it through the week. I was able to sneak in 2 hours at a friends house for some prayer and a little bible study. (thank you dear MIL for picking my child up from school and keeping her for a bit) Perry got home this afternoon from being gone to work for 12 days, (I really have a lot of respect for single parents) and I set out and got all my birthday party shopping done.

I must get my children to bed even though it sounds like they want no part of that.

Have a great weekend.