Weekend Wrap-up

I came in the door from Teal for Toes on Thursday night to find two sick little girls.  They were both feverish and stayed that way through Friday night, missing school on Friday.   With Scott working, we stayed pretty low through the weekend.  It seemed to be a cycle of Tylenol, cartoons, cooking, reading, couponing, eating between the 3 of us.  We all ventured out to church Sunday morning.  The kids spent the afternoon with IL’s while I had to work some and catch up on laundry.  I thought we were in the clear but by late Sunday Emma’s fever was back and she was home today from school.

It some ways it was a really good weekend.  We were not tempted to eat out or shop since the kids were homebound.  I was able to catch up on all the laundry and straighten up.  I mean, I washed the kitchen trash can out for crying out loud.  You know you’re caught up with cleaning when you drag that thing outside to clean, right?  So yeah, although the kids were high maintenance–Emma actually crawled in bed with us JUST to throw up Friday night.  “Mom, I knew I was going to threw up so I came in here”  THANKS–but otherwise it was nice not to be too busy.

This week all attention is on preparing for my trip to Catalyst on Wednesday evening.  I’ve already packed the kids clothes for their overnight and have already picked out my clothes for the trip.  I told you I was caught up!   Actually tomorrow night I have to make an apple pie for Lexi’s class and am on blog duty over at OneTreeHillBlog so I’m making sure I don’t have too much on my plate for tomorrow.  Aren’t I being such a grown-up?

After all this time inside, I am going to be SO ready for a road trip, probably annoying poor PJ whom I’ve never had a complete conversation with outside of email with incessant talking.  Sort of like that poorly written, run-on sentence I just typed.  Can you tell I’m ready to get out?  Maybe I should have blogged my way through the weekend.

One thing I can’t wait to tell you about is the Hunger Games series I’ve completely devoured over the last week.  I think it’s the best fiction series I’ve ever read…even over Twilight.  Yes.  I know.

And speaking of books, I’ve been selected/volunteered to judge Creative Non-fiction in the INSPYs this year.  It’s basically bloggers’ awards for Christian literature.  I can’t wait to read my books and I’m so excited to help award a writer!

So I think that’s enough random and catches you up!  Hope you’ve started your week well!