Weekend Recap

Thank you all so much for your comments on that last post. I was really nervous to put myself out there like that. It's not something that gets talked about much so I was really opening my heart to you all, and you were all so kind.

We are on our last day of a four day weekend. The kids were off of school on Friday and then we had the big storm that ended up being the Big Ice. We were promised 13-20 inches of snow but ended up with lots and lots of freezing rain. The weirdest was looking out the window and seeing snow but hearing thunder and lightning. Kind of creepy but kind of cool.


The kids had a blast playing on the ice. They went out on Saturday in the middle of it all and ran and slipped and slid around the yard. I went out to take pictures and barely made it back up the front steps to get back into the house. It was really a pretty sight, the pregnant lady sliding around outside the front door, practically crawling up the steps into the house. I would have done much better if I would have been wearing ice skates. When the kids came back inside, Jack's hood had a sheet of ice covering it. He was like a little human ice cube. Don't you think these are a little more appropriate than your typical snowman? They scream "ice storm".

We ate homemade chicken noodle soup with homemade noodles. (Sometimes I surprise myself with my domestic abilities) I also nursed the latest round of sickies back to health. I swear, this is the marathon of stomach bugs. It just. never. ends. It's like 26.2 days of sickness, just when we think we have kicked it, someone else gets taken out. I'm starting to get a little T.O.'d about the whole thing, but for now I'm crossing my fingers that this is it and we are done. Please God, I'm begging you. I'm not a health, wealth and prosperity type of girl, but I'll take a little bit of the health part if you don't mind.

So now it's Monday and there's no school. Nate is working from home and we are all feeling pretty cooped up. I might just be desperate enough to take the whole crew to the local fast food playland. We wouldn't really be bringing any new germs to the place, they already have every strain imaginable. Or maybe I will crack the whip on chores and we can get this place spic and span and then take naps. I vote for option number two, minus the cleaning, just the naps.