our poor baby

seems to be sick and its breaking my heart. i keep thinking why of all the weekends do we have to get sick? yesterday afternoon, she started complaining of her head hurting and then last night the fever sat in. we are home this morning, missing her school halloween party and tricking or treating around the square. it makes me so sad that she is having to miss all the fun! poor lacey. i'm so hoping that its nothing but in the back of my head i have feeling we might just have h1n1. she has already been immunized for the flu, so i don't think that could be it but not the
h1n1. i'm especially worried about tomorrow night when everyone goes out trick or treating and not her. how do you explain to a four year old that you have stay home and get better...this will interesting?

trying to get back in the swing of things

is exactly what i'm trying to do. it's been an uphill battle for me since i came down with the flu. as of today, i'm still suffering from a horrible cough that i can't seem to get rid of. i've been on a z-pack for five days and a steroid with not much improvement. kevin would tell you that half my problem is that i'm not properly resting. you know, he is probably right!

i spent most of last week at lela's school helping set up the book fair, taking pictures of red ribbon week and helping out in the classroom. i have actually surprised myself with how much i have had going on these days. between getting ready for lacey's fall festival at her school and just my weekly helping out in lela's classroom i feel torn in half a different directions. i swear i think that is one of the requirements of being a mom.

i keep hoping that things would slow down a bit, but then again do they ever? i honestly think that life is a roller coaster with its ups and downs, surprises and turns, personally you just never know what is coming next....all i've got to say is "hang on!"

live and learn - that's my motto

and yes, i paid dearly last night for it.

we took the girls to the fair in 50 something degree weather yesterday evening. we had a really good time despite me coughing my head off and still not quite at 100%. the girls were dying for me to go the fair with them. earlier in the week their daddy had taken them as a surprise and now they wanted to me to have as much fun as they did. what sweet girls!

it was fun! i realized one thing that i'm getting too old to ride rides like the "drunken barrels" you find at six flags. we all rode these strawberries which you spin around and around and then the whole entire ride spins again like those barrels. it was probably about half way through the ride, all of a sudden a wave of nausea came over me. i told the girls they had to stop spinning the strawberry and announced to them and kevin i literally thought i was about to get sick on the ride. the girls got all worried and kevin calmed them down with the fact that i had been sick for about a week and i was still trying to get better. personally, i think it was just old age.

i love watching our girls have such a good time at the fair. it brings so much joy to my life to see them laughing, smiling and screaming as they ride such rides as the wacky worm roller coaster, ferris wheel and the giant slide. ah! the longer we were there the more obvious it became to me that i wasn't the perfect of health. in fact i probably wasn't even better, yet. why? because when we got home and i finally got ready for bed, guess what? fever was back...again! like i said live and learn.





and my favorite picture of the evening....you can just see her excitement and hear her little scream, i love it!