Wow, where do I even start? It has been one of those weeks. To start things off my 2 youngest boys get the stomach flu for the SECOND time since January. Now seriously, what is that about? A.J. gets it first followed by Matthew so about 4 days of all the lovely things that go along with it. Meanwhile I am just praying it doesn't hit me like it did last time they had it (so far, so good).

Next on the list of goodies are the possessed smoke detectors in our house (we rent). They have taken over. They go off at all hours of the day and night at will. They are electrically wired with battery back-ups. When one goes off they ALL go off. They are loud, high pitched, obnoxious and they are lucky to still be "living", so to speak. There is no smoke, no fire, no reason for them to go off. Maybe a short?? Who knows. Could I do something about it? Yeah, if I could reach the 10 foot ceilings they are attached to. Last night they were going off (on and off) from 1 a.m. till 7 a.m. They may go off for a minute or two, or 10, 20 minutes. It is like some bad head of household competition on Big Brother.

Tomorrow Alex is going to work on his latest video. When this gets done you will want to come back here and see it. His latest effect he is trying for is getting shot and having the "life like" blood splatter thing going on. Gotta love what $20 of pieces, parts,(he had to build the equipment to make the blood spatter) corn syrup and red food coloring can do.

We have also had our share of bad news this week also. We found out Sunday that my MIL has breast cancer. She needs surgery and 5 weeks of radiation. We hope it has not spread to any lymph nodes. If they get all the cancer out with surgery her prognosis is good from what I understand.

Also my future brother in laws grandma is dying. He lost his father 2 years ago and his younger 32 yr old brother to cancer in January and now the grandma who raised him is not going to make it, maybe not even through tonight. He really needs to catch a break. I cannot imagine that much loss.

On to better things. My blog has been linked from Parents Magazine.com
I think that is so cool, for me, a small time blogger. Whoo Hoo!!!

Usually that is a good thing. Except when it means that two outta my three kids are sick. They started off with colds. One developed a raging ear infection (no fever) and the other a fever (no ear infection).

A.J. is the one with the ear infection. He can get really bad infections and he will never even make a peep about it. Luckily he hasn't had but only a few, that I know of anyway. Like I said, for him I guess they don't hurt or something because you would honestly never know he had one. Knowing this when he said his ear hurt a "tiny" bit I scheduled him a Dr appt to find out what was going on for sure. Glad I did. I only wish my years and years of suffering through them as a child were the kind that didn't hurt.

Of course I give them medicine and you would never know they were sick at all. When kids are sick why can't they be like us? Retreat to the bedroom and hide out (ok, as if a mom ever had that option, but that is what our husbands do right? Mine does anyway).

And although A.J. was sick a couple days before Matthew, wouldn't you know Matthew would get sick just after his first two days of preschool lol. Coincidence? Perhaps. I am sure A.J. got his cold from school anyway and Matthew was bound to get it from him eventually.

Right now Matthew is crashed out, and A.J. is hopped up on Motrin like a mouse on speed.

It is going to be a lovely weekend I am sure.

If I just posted everyday I am sure a lot more people would come to look at my blog but as it was this week I just didn't get around to it. So instead here is a long post of "MY WEEK".

Last Sunday A.J. come down with the 24hr stomach flu. That wasn't fun but he was a trooper and by Monday he was much better.

On Tuesday Matthew then came down with the stomach flu, ugggg. Not so much the trooper. He literally freaked out every time he threw up. I can totally understand that but unlike A.J., Matthew makes no attempt to run for the bathroom nor would he keep a bowl by his side "just in case". Luckily most of these things just skip right by me.

NOT this time however. Friday I came down with it!! Not to mention I had a 8am appt at the school for Matthew's Child Find screening (to see about him in preschool due to the fact that he has the same speech issues as A.J.) I managed to pull myself together and got there only to be told the speech therapist called in because she was sick, grrrr. It was not a pretty day for me. But hey, I lost 4 lbs overnight lol. And well then by the next day I had gained 2 of them back, oh well.

Not sure if I ever mentioned I was going to see dh in Texas after Christmas. He found out last week that he was going to have Christmas off so he wanted me to change my tickets for him to come home instead. So I did or so I thought. I had gotten the tickets online through a site (priceline) and called to change them. I even told them that the tickets were now for my dh and explained why etc..... I paid an additional $253 (on top of what I already paid) to change them only to discover they were still in my name and useless to my dh. I called around trying to get it fixed and they forwarded my problem to someone higher up perhaps and said they would get back to me 24 to 48hrs later. Right, still haven't heard from them. So, dh ended up buying ANOTHER flight to come home just in case they wouldn't fix the flight I bought. Because for every day he waited would be closer to when he was coming home and the ticket for him would just be that much more expensive or sold out. How much did we end up paying for all that?? Too freaking much!!!!

Yesterday I did some shopping!! I wasn't 100% after being sick on Friday but I got done what I needed too. I got to go and buy a "hot" outfit for when dh comes home and we go out(maybe I will get a decent pic of me to post) We won't have a lot of time though. He gets in at 10:30pm and we are going to a hotel near the bar/nightclub scene in Scottsdale, AZ so we may get a couple hours of drinking and dancing before things close. Then the next day dh gets to start working on my van and pray he gets it fixed before he leaves. He only has like 3 and a half days to work on it and he needs to fit Christmas in there somewhere.

Isn't it funny that kids are never too tired to make a mess, but when you ask them to pick it up, that is the response you get.

So, if they are that tired maybe they should take a nap. Right, they are never THAT tired.

I have been sick for two days now. I feel like I am going to die (you know what I mean) and you would think the kids would be kind and help me out a bit.... not! I swear they use it to their advantage to get away with more.

Did I mention I hate being sick? I haven't even been on the computer hardly at all today. (imagine that!) My head is so fuzzy, I can barely think. I need 24hrs of completely uninterrupted sleep. Wishful thinking there too.

I better get my butt in gear if I plan to participate in Scrapbook Saturday tomorrow.