ALL ABOARD

Yesterday, my friend Dawn and I went on the train to Chicago for a dental convention. It was sooo much fun, but such a long and exhausting day! I got up at 4am. I was sick all week with the crud and thought it would suck, but God bless zithromax!!
We got to Chicago and grabbed a cab to the McCormick Place and spent the next 6 hours basically trick-or-treating from dental vendors. We then jumped into a cab and went back to the train and came straight home. What a day!! My shoulders and back are killing me from the haul I got. I had eaten a snickers at 5:45am and realized once we were in the cab that I hadn't eaten all day. Not normal for me. Dawn was on a mission and said if I even had to pee excessively, she would move on without me. Luckily I don't have Brandi's bladder. HAHA
It truly broke my heart to be in a city and not goto dinner. We had microwaved cheeseburgers on the train and $2 cans of pop. I was so hungry I probably would've eaten the cardboard box I carried my $9.75 meal in.
I arrived back at my house at 10:oo pm after driving 1.5 hours from the station. I went to sleep and slept til 9:30 am, got up and ate Mike's fantastic chocolate chip pancakes, had a quiet family reading time, as suggested by Tommy, and then went back to sleep until 5pm. I got up and made potato soup and biscuits for dinner, cleaned that all up and got the kids ready for bed. Not a very productive day, but I feel so much better than I did all last week. I missed 4 1/2 days of work due to bronchitis and strepish throat. Oldest had it the week before and I thought I did to, but had a negative test. 2 trips to the doc last week. UGH!

Another Sunday

Not much happening around here today. I thought I may finally take the Christmas tree down. Actually, all I can do is undecorate it. It is 9 feet tall and beyond heavy. Mike will have to take it down when he returns from Utah. It has snowed for the last couple of days and the county street sanders didn't hook us up for whatever reason. After bowling yesterday, I turned into our neighborhood and began a spin/slide combo toward the ditch. I remained very calm and decided to do as Carrie Underwood sings about and let "Jesus Take The Wheel". Fortunately the front of my van entered the ditch and not the side because I am 100% sure we would've rolled. I decided to drive through the field and came out on the low part. That got my heartbeat jumping for about a half an hour. Does that count as cardio?? haha

When Mike is gone, Littlest believes that it is her duty to sleep with me. It always amazes me that my 8 year old little girl takes up more space than my rather large husband. Anyway, last night my friend Jena kept the little 2 overnight. YAY!! I woke up in a panic this morning when Littlest wasn't in bed with me.