TGIF!!!!!!

I've probably had that exact same title before because by the time Friday rolls around, I am always exhausted and very glad that the weekend is near and I will have constant reinforcements for a couple days with Dale being home. This week has been very long and somewhat difficult for me. First off, Owen came down with a pretty bad cold on Saturday, which is still lingering. His runny nose was so bad for a few days that he ended up getting what Dale referred to as a red Hitler 'stache because the area between his nose and top lip was just raw and bright red--poor little guy. As a result of his cold, he has been extra clingy and cranky this week. He still wakes up happy, but as the day goes on, if things do not go just his way, he gets very irritated and nothing that I do seems to help. Happily right now, he is napping, but there were a couple days, he didn't nap, and he was EXTREMELY cranky by evening.

Next up, on Tuesday, we woke up to surprise snow--at least it was a surprise to me since I never watch the news or check weather forecasts. It actually snowed quite a bit. Of course, the kids instantly hope there's no school. Given our school district's propensity to cancel classes even without very much snow, I thought that might be the case, but there was school. I actually wished they had been 2 hours late and we could have a little more leisurely morning, but I got them off to school in a hurried rush as usual.

Wednesday, Hannah woke up complaining of her head and throat hurting. She had no fever and I couldn't see anything unusual in her throat, so I figured it was just the start of a cold, but I was not going to be able to get her to school, so I let her have a sick day. I always love it when the kids stay home sick and then after a couple hours of lazing around, they're up and running around like normal. I think I said, "You should be in a school." at least a half dozen times. My worry was that she was either on the verge of getting strep throat since she continued to complain about her throat or that she would milk this and try to get Thursday and Friday off too. Thankfully, she felt better the next day and neither of those happened. Having her home along with a grumpy Owen made for a long day.

On top of various illnesses, our house has been inundated with flies. I know, Ewwww, gross!!! It's the middle of winter. Why do we have flies? Shouldn't they all be dead? You will be sitting there trying to watch tv and there will be half dozen (2nd time I've used that term this post) swarming in front of it making it difficult to focus on the show. Then you go to the kitchen, and they seem to follow youand swarm all around in there. Now mind you, my house is usually messy with toys everywhere and papers piled all over the counters, but it is not that dirty. All these flies though makes me feel like my house is very dirty. I've even resorted to hanging one of the sticky fly tape things like you usually see in barns. Here is where people would use that term. "What, do you live in a barn?" It's "caught" about 3 but for the most part they just fly all around it. I was even trying to vacuum them up this morning with the vacuum hose. I think I may have even got a few although I'm probably just dillusional. I don't know if they would even die in there or just crawl back out. Here's hoping our uninvited house guests are gone soon.

Well I guess that's all for now. It's almost 5:00, and I need to figure out what's going on for dinner and such. Hope you all have a great weekend.

TTFN - Ta Ta For Now