Thoughts for a friend

A dear friend of ours is having brain surgery today to remove a tumor. We are thinking of her and wish her the best and fastest recovery. Our thoughts are also with her two small children and husband who have to be incredibly nervous.

Where have I been?

I feel like I went to hell and back. Stash had the stomach virus last week then Bit came down with the same thing on Wednesday. Thursday he seemed better and then Friday it came for Hubs and I. This thing was terrible. 12 hours of pure hell. We have only one bathroom and this just furthers my conviction that when we have the extra money an extra bathroom (with a great big bath tub) must be added.

We went to see the Clinton parade tonight. I feel almost as the throwing/gathering/fighting of and for candy took away from the actual parade. I remember sitting in chairs bundled up with a cup of hot chocolate watching the parade just waiting to see the next float. That was so different than this year. While many exhibits grabbed the boy's attention (the 10 fire trucks mainly) there was only a couple floats and the rest were people riding in their often unwashed pick up trucks. Middle school homecoming queen (with candy) followed by fairest of the fair (with candy) followed by cheerleaders (without candy >:[ )then a dance team (with candy) and a pickup truck (with....you guessed it MORE candy! WOOOOOOOOO.) So now we have a bag full of candy and lots of, "No more candy tonight!". Next year maybe the kids on the block can put together a little Christmas parade of their own, my neighbor has a pickup truck.

Blogging more today

I am blogging more today than usual. That is because Hub is asleep with Stash and Bit and I are up. Usually when I am up early in the morning I log on to World of Warcraft and play for an hour or two. Tuesdays is when they do their maintenance so they are down until 1pm. I suppose I could clean but where is the fun in that?

Yesterday we did a big of online shopping. We had planned to get the Stash this digger. We visited with a friend and her son had this toy. Since playing with it only a few minutes Stash has brought it up about 500 times. After talking with the Hub about what we should get I decided to just see if they had any other deals when this caught my eye. It's perfect! The faces of my two boys replaced the faces of the boys in the advertisement and I was sold. Not to mention it was on sale AND it was about what I would spend on the only digger once shipped. Another bonus is that you can buy add ons which makes the next gift giving for the next 4 holidays easy cheesy. I'm still not sure what to get for Bit. I love looking at the Hanna Anderson catalog but it is just out of my price range. I did, however, happen to look up a hat and mitten set, striped pjs, and slippers to find it was more than 50% off. My Mom and I were ohhhing over it just last night. The dresses they carry makes me ache for a girl. Too cute!

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