Wordle

I found a great new way to waste time.  Like I really needed another way to waste time, but whatever.  This website is called wordle.  You type in any words you want and it jumbles them into a pretty piece of art.  I did mine in traditional Christmas colros (red and green for those of you from another planet) and typed in a very Christmasy verse from Issiah chapter 9.  I really like the way it turned out.  I suppose I could print it out, frame it and add it to my Christmas decorations, but I think I will leave that to the folks that accutally get paid to blog.  That would be a pretty sweet gig, but alas, no one is ging to pay for my rambilings.  Anywho, check out Worlde when you need to waste a chunck of time. 

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30 more creative things to be thankful for this November

Ok it is November and we all know what that means right?  30 days of no shaving and 30 days of “I am thankful for…” on Facebook.  They all start the same, I am thankful for Jesus, I am thankful for my amazing husband, my crazy children, my parents, my job yada, yada, yada.  I would certainly hope you are thankful for those things every day and every month.  But what do I know?  Maybe you are an ungrateful maroon, although I doubt it.  So here is my list of things I am grateful for that maybe I don’t think of everyday.

1.       Beet juice used as food coloring instead of red dye 40

2.       Magic Erasers

3.       Pentax, because Nikon sucks the big one

4.       I know how to cook without a recipe

5.       To be known in some circles as “The Pie Lady”

6.       I have a car that doesn’t squeal now

7.       Chocolate Strawberry Wine

8.       Free tastings at Tipsy’s

9.       Finding a decent pillow in the basement

10.   Online yearbook ordering

11.   Coupons

12.   Garage Sales

13.   Showers when no one comes in the bathroom (a woman can dream can’t she?)

14.   Cookie Moms- so I don’t have to do it!

15.   Science- yep, I’m a nerd

16.   Losing 10+ lbs since the summer J

17.   Pinterest, I mean, seriously awesome

18.   Gems Cards- gotta love skiing free

19.   Mushroom and Salami Pizza

20.   Enemies- they make you stronger

21.   Mod podge

22.   Coffee!!!!

23.   Video Games, ie Zelda, and solitaire

24.   Open Enrollment GO 3A & 3B

25.   Trampolines

26.   Photo editing software

27.   Swifter wet mops

28.   Dishwashers

29.   A friend that is an AWSOME carpenter (new kitchen in my sights)

30.   Big soft fluffy robes

Happy Halloween

At the preschool getting ready for tomorrows festivities.  How do you like our Pinterest inspired Frankenstien puddings cups?  I think the kids will love them!

How to freeze a pie

First, prepare your pie per the recipe.

 
Next wrap with press and seal.

Then wrap with foil.

Finally, use a sharpie to write what the pie is and baking instructions, before popping in the freezer.

Homemade Applesause

This year we were lucky to have a neighbor share their abundance of apples with us.  I decided the bulk should be applesause.  It is healthy, as I am in diet mode again, and uses up a lot of apples.  So here is the simple recipe.
Incidents
5Lbs apples cored and quarterd (not peeled)
1 cup water
1 lemon
Optional -
Sugar, cimmamon stick or vanilla bean

Heat all ingredients in a large pot until squishy.  Yes, that is a technical term. Take out cinammon stick or vanilla bean if you used it. Then grab your immersion blender and go to town!  Let it cool an freeze.  It is so good that I burned my tongue trying it out.  So, worth it.
Now, on to apple pie, again no peeling.  Why do people peel apples and potatoes ?  I just don't get it.  The peel is the nutritious part and tasty to boot.

Where am I going?

A friend of mine posted on Facebook, that she is hitting the second half of her life (44) and wants to do something that will be as exciting as the first half.  Currently her ideas include, politics (she is already pretty active in this one,) acting, and adventuring.  I think this is great and I honestly believe she plans to follow through with something.

 So here I sit looking at the next 3/4s of my life.  What is it going to hold?  What are my plans?  Why was it so much easier to dream big when we were littler?

I remember being little and planning on opening my veterinary practice in the same office building as my best friend's medical practice.  Your one stop shop for all your medical needs for you and your pooch.  She was going to marry a rich old man and I was going to marry another vet and have 8 kids.  Oh yes, we could dream big back in the day.

So, here I am.  Where am I going.  Can I finish my degree in Biochemistry?  Sure.  Can I climb Mount Kilimanjaro?  Sure.  Can I run a half marathon? Sure, but not going to.  In a couple years I will have all 3 (not 8) kids in school all day.  At that point, my world kinda reopens.   What will it bring?  Do I wait and see or plan to attack?  I guess I have 2 years to figure it out.

Recent weight loss

Now that I found this new text to speech app on my phone I think it will make blogging even easier today I want to talk about my awesome weight loss in the last 4 weeks. 4 weeks ago I sat at 151 pounds it wasn't pretty when I got on the scale I only expected it to say 140 what a shocker. I had joined a group that was competing against each other to lose weight so this is my first weight loss journey so far it's been great at this point I am down to 144.4 hey not bad for just 4 weeks.  What have I been doing well sleep tight mount the crap like Fritos in queso. 0h I love Fritos and queso.  I have also turned my lunches into either a a salad or bi soup.  I try to remember to have breakfast every morning My breakfast at included a recipe I found on Pinterest for refrigerator oatmeal so good

Of course there's the exercise to the first 3 weeks I was focusing on running since I was preparing for the Warrior Dash. I would say I ran 3 miles at least 3 days a week. But this last week I've been focusing on potties and doing the physical therapy stretches that my physical therapist recommended for my shoulder. That was a pretty weak weak weak but I managed to lose 2.2 pounds a very big week! So that's my boat for today but with this text to speech thing um I guess its speech to text I plan on Blogging a lot more talk to you later.

Why ya gotta be so cool?

Ok, I am so NOT cool enough to be a blogger.  I read my friends' blogs of course, but I also read craft blogs and cooking blogs.  That is my niche I suppose.  One lady has 7 kids, another... 11!  One lady does 100 days with no processed foods, not so much as cake for the kids at a birthday party.  They make these beautiful "easy" crafts that never turn out that way when I do them.  I never see a single weed in the garden blogs.  In my garden you can barely see the vegetables amongst all the weeds.  Oh, and the pictures are always perfect.  Seriously, who are these people?  I am pretty sure they must be robots.  I mean I only have 3 kids and can barely find the time to blog.

Ok, so we know I am not octomom, with the manicured garden, immaculate home, Martha Stewart's worst enemy that somehow finds the time to blog so, who the heck am I?  I am a wife and mother of 3.  I do not home school.  I would never home school.  If anything I am anti home school.  I have never met a home schooler that isn't a Christian through an through.  What the heck is up with that?  Don't get me wrong, I know Jews, Muslims, and a ton of atheists, but NONE of them home school, only the Christians.  What ever happened to living in the world people?  You can tell me I am wrong until you are blue in the face and the face of the matter is I became a Christian, because a family of strong Christians left their girls in the public schools system to be a light in the world.  One of those girls was my best friend.  I think my train of thought might have been diverted to a soap box so, I will leave that for another post.  My apologies, ANYWAY where was I?  Oh yes, who am I?  I am an active member of the PTA.  I raise my hand to volunteer WAY more than a normal sane person would.  I love photography, unfortunately my refurbished SLR only works when it wants to.  Other times it argues with me about shutter speed and won't let me change it.  Again, I digress, I lead a Girl Scout troop.  The girls in my troop will be in 4th and 5th grade next year.  They are very near and dear to my heart.  They all love scouting and have asked if I will continue the troop even if my daughter decides she doesn't want to continue.  Basically, I am stuck here for awhile.  I go to a church where I am crazy about the teaching, but not much else.  I miss the community of our old church, but not the teaching.  Guess you can't have it all.  My house is a mess, ALWAYS.  I have been cleaning for 2 days for company coming this week.  You could never tell.  I admit to being a little lazy.  I have little self confidence.  But I am a great cook.  The things I make usually are not pretty, but they taste good so, who cares right?  I miss being around animals all the time.  Due to my husbands new allergies we no longer have any furry pets.  Of course, this weekend I am pet sitting 4 dogs, 4 birds and 2 turtles so, I will save this complaint for another times.  I am tired and I am broke, but somehow I am basically happy.  Sorry, this is a no drama mama here.  So, if that is what you are looking for in a blog, keep it moving.

So, I am not as awesome or cool as most bloggers, but I only have one follower so, who really cares right?  Besides, when all is said and done I do this for myself and no one else.  I love to reminise about things that happened, dreams I had, and even thoughts I had.  So, here is to me, I am a weedy garden, but atleast one person loves me!

Disastrous Day

I grew up in a small town called Woodland Park.  Woodland Park is just 18 miles west of Colorado Springs.  At the time it was a 3 stop light kind of town.  To get to the city of Colorado Springs there is an 18 mile mountain highway called Highway 24 or Ute Pass.  Between the 2 towns is a nice hiking area called Waldo Canyon can be found.  I have hiked there a few times.  It isn't a secret, but it certianly isn't well known, or so that was the case this time last week.

I first heard there was a fire in Waldo Canyon sometime Saturday.  Not long after it started.  I imediatly panicked.  I knew it was to close to Woodland Park.  I knew it was to close to Colorado Springs.  I knew it hadn't rained in weeks.  I knew the trees we dry enough they might as well be tooth picks.  I knew the High Park Fire had been raging for weeks.  I knew resourses were limited with the number of fires in the state. I knew panicking was justified and I knew there was nothing I could do about it.

The first concern was my parents bussiness.  Basically located where this highway and the city of Colorado Springs meet.  I got pictures, lots of pictures, sent to me by my parents.  Maybe one every hour or two.  The shop was my concern, the shop was their concern.  That concern was with me Sunday and Monday, by Tuesday night I might have thought the worst was behind us, maybe everything will be ok, but by that afternoon the situation changed.

Tuesday morning there might have even been hope.  I believe I heard the words 5% containment and the fear subsided a litte, but not for long.  Hollywood has nothing on what was about to happen.  About 2:00 another fire breaks out close to me and far to close to the city of Boulder.  One ridge stands between this fire and the city limits of Boulder.  I am glued to the TV, disapointed that my short lived hope was gone.  The news crew would show the Waldo Canyon Fire for 10 minutes and the go to the Flagstaff Fire (aka the Boulder Fire).  Then the worst happened they stopped showing the Flagstaff fire.  The wind kicked up in Colorado Springs, about 100 miles south of Boulder.  The fire grew by leaps and bounds.  Neighborhoods were quickly evacuated even parts of the Air Force Academy on the other side of town from where the fire started.  The panic returned.  I get a call from my sister.  They are trying to get home from the store.  They are off the highway, because it is so congested with people trying to evacuate ash is falling on the car and she is trying to keep ME calm on the phone.  I am glued to the TV as pictures are texted in from my parents and 2 sisters.  I am frantic.  They call when they get home.  I offer to bring down the truck to fill up.  They are not evacuated yet, but it is getting closer and I am an hour away.  My mom telss me to stay here, that she is packing their truck and car and putting things in the trunk of my youngest sister's car.  Finally, a reason to smile.  My mom never let any if us drive very far while we were living at home.  I was not allowed to drive on highway 24 so, basically I couldn't drive anywhere (remember I said the town only had 3 stop lights).  So, the thought of my mom putting things in the trunk of my sister's car.  Knowing this meant if need be my sister would not only be driving out of town, but driving out of town during an evacuation with a thousand other panicked drivers.  Ok, maybe it isn't a funny situation, but I laughed.  Not out loud af course, moms have a way of kicking your butt even when you are grown and miles away.  I am not sure how that works yet as my kids are still at home, but stay tuned, I will let you know as soon as I figure out how to do it.  All laughing aside, things are about to go from bad to worse.  I wouldn't have been able to get there is time anyway, because before I could have reached them, they closed the highway.  As the sun sets I watch on the live feed as the fire creeps into twon, my HOMEtown.  It is horrific.  I am on Facebook, other friends that have moved away are watching in horror as well, because by this time we have made national news.  The thought is in the back of my mind, what about Woodland Park, Waht about Woodland Park, What about Woodland Park?  Nothing, there is no news about the back side of the fire.  My firends still living there are not online now, what does that mean?  I watch as the fire starts consuming houses.  The Flying W Ranch posts that it is gone.  I am sick to my stomach.  I am yelling no, no, stop, stop.  I want to go out there and fight it my self.  Of course, I can't.  I know that would only make the situation worse.  I don't sleep Thursday night.  I know my family is in the path of this monster. I know they are not leaving until they are told to leave.  And I know there is nothing I can do.  How does a girl sleep with all that?

The next morning brings no good news, but no worse news.  There hasn't been much change since last night.  If you consider 2am "last night."  The town is covered in smoke.  I try to convince my pregnant sister to come stay with me. Just for the day to get out of the smoke and enjoy the ac, but she won't.  Her in-laws are moving in.  Atleast for the time being.  And once again in the afternoon the wind picks up.  60 mile per hours gusts.  The reporter is having a hard time staying on her feet and my stomach belly flops again (can a stomach belly flop?)  I sit on pin and needles and watch, they are showing nothing but smoke we can not tell what is gonig on and they don't really know either.  Then the unexpaected happens, at 5:00 they cut to regular programming.  What!?!!?  My hometown is burning and you show Everybody Loves Raymond???  Ok, I am a little out of date, I don't recall what the show was, but you get the point.  I text my mom "What is going on, the news cut to regular progaming.  Good news?" ... nothing.  I text my sis the same ... nothing.  Finally my sis gets back to me and says things are about the same and the wind has died down.  I breathe a sigh of relif and take my son to his baseball game.

So, here we are.  It is Friday night.  We are at 25% containment, but this is not time to get comfortable.  347 have lost their homes, 2 have lost their lives.  So far I only know of one person that has lost their home, but that number could change.  I don't look forward to going back down.  To see what this fire has done to one of my favorite places and my favorite national forest will turn my stomach again I am sure.

Continued prayers will be needed for a long time.  For those that lost their homes and the families of those that lost their lives.  And prayers for rain.  It is only June and this is not the only fire in the state by a long shot. 

Baking Soda & Hydrogen Peroxide!?!?!?!

Why didn't someone tell me about Baking Soda & Hydrogen Peroxide sooner?  I guess maybe I am just more receptive now.  Who knows, but I just learned about this miracle cleaner LAST NIGHT!  I read it on a blog somewhere.  She did a cookie sheet, so that is where I started and I was way underwelmed.  So I tried my drip pans from the stove.  So glad I took before pics, because again I was unimpressed until I looked back at the original pics.

Then the kicker!  I cannot use oven cleaners, because the fumes are not good for our bird, or us I am sure.  I have a steamcleaner that I have used for years, but it stopped working.  So, I emptied the box of baking soda from the freezer.  Now, keep in mind my baking soda boxes go from cabinet to fridge to freezer so, this box was far from fresh.  I added the hydrogen peroxide and waited.  Over 3 hours I waited.  But wow, did it ever pay off.  I used an old bath towel to mop up the majority of the mess and then a wet dish towel to finish up.  Easy!  As you can see it isn't perfect, but I will take it.  I just need to figure out how to get the walls.  Hope you take this and run with it.

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Dang Pinterest! Fooled again!

Ok, it has happened to all of us.  We go to check out a receipe that has been on our board for months just to find it is a BS site.  So annoying!

It happened to me just this morning.  I was excited to try out the ham sliders for lunch.  When I went to get the acctual receipe from the website BAM!!!  You just won a free gift card from Pinterest!  Ya right, do you think I was born yesterday?  So, I made my own receipe based off the picture.  And dang it all they turned out just dandy.  A little dry, but if you bake them covered in foil, I think you can get around that.  So, here is the receipe for my version:

Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls

Shaved Honey Ham

Swiss cheese sliced

A little garlic powder, oragano & basil to taste

I took my trusty bread knife and sliced open the rolls, layered them with ham & cheese then sprinkled on the herbs.  Threw the tops on and baked in a 250 degree oven for about 10 minutes.  Again, I recomend covering in foil to avoid a crispy top.

There you go!  Fast and easy.  And a receipe not just a pretty picture to boot!

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My Birth List

If you are unsure what I mean by "Birth List" imagine the opposite of a bucket list.  Instead of concentrating on all the "want tos" today we will be looking at all the "thankful I dids."  I hope you enjoy, I know I did.

1. Had my poetry published 3 times
2. Have written for the local news paper many times
3. Been a flower girl
4. Been a brides maid twice
5. Been a matron of honor
6. Been a bride
7. Had 3 wonderful children
8. Become a Christian
9. Climbed 2 14ers
10. Seen the Space Needle
11. Been up the Sears Tower
12. Seen the Monalisa
13. Been to Ephesus
14. Fallen off a Double Decker Bus in London
15. Slept in a hostel
16. Fell in love with my favorite city-Madrid
17. Ridden a train from Madrid to Paris
18. Gotten my degree in Veterinary Technology
19. Came within a year of a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry
20. Stuck my finger in a dogs hip socket during surgery
21. Seen a bird revived by CPR on the OR table
22. Ridden a horse
23. Been to a black sad beach
24. Swam in the ocean
25. Seen an erupting volcano
26. Gone backpacking
27. Skied
28. Jet Skied
29. Snowshoed
30. Been on a motorcycle
31. Put together a year book
32. Been room mom
33. Been play doh mom
34. Taught Sunday School
35. Taught VBS
36. Gone on a mission trip
37. Bought a house
38. Been a girl scout leader
39. Ran Track & Field
40. Skipped school
41. Got to see the World Trade Center
42. Tried Maple Syrup in VT
43. Survived the Warrior Dash
44. Gone off the diving board
45. Learned to play piano

Summer Goals for 2012

• Bowling
• Sleep in fort
• Eat from the garden
• Bellview Park
• Cornerstone Park
• Hike
• Water Fight
• Camping
• Book Club
• Weaver Hollow
• Warrior Dash
• Picnic
• Movie Day
• VBS
• Outside Movie
• Bike Ride
• Concert at the park
• Swimming Lessons
• Ballet
• Baseball
• Play with baby Kaeden
• Wash car
• Make Popcicles

Irish Nachos

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After hearing about my friend Megan's Irish Nachos, I finally got to try making them myself.

Garden Day 2

Tiller day! I have added the manure and compost. I need to get it spread before Scott gets back with the tiller.

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Garden Fail!

Yesterday I tested the soil in an area of the garden that gave me trouble last year. It initially failed on 3 of 4. I ended up giving it a 50% instead of 25%, because after sitting awhile longer phospherous decided to get its act together. So after some research I found some organic solutions. I have used blood meal to up my nitrogen levels which BTW were about zero. I might add bone meal to up the phopherous if it isn't behaving itself when I retest in a couple weeks. I was also able to find an organic pH lowerer. I need to add both of the two I added today again tomorrow, because of the slope in the garden I have decided to add half today and let it soak in before adding the other half tomorrow. I was able to disolve what I added today with no run off. Woo hoo! I am trusting that compost will be enough for the new garden this year. If production proves me wrong I will do something more next year. I am hoping by the end of the week I will have the soil fixed and all seeds in the ground. Plants will have to wait, they are not going out until I am sure we have had our last frost. Just because it is 85 degrees out now means nothing to me. Well, the soil was a failure at the beginning of the year, but I am hoping this cramming before the real test will prove an awsome crop is possible!

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Spring has sprung

What a fabulous spring day. After watching Captian America with lunch (gotta prepare for the Avengers movie) I spent most of the afternoon in the new garden area removing tree roots, rocks and weeds. I was able to get my potatoes planted and the kids planted their sunflowers. In the big garden I accomplished planting 3 rows of corn and beans. After this bbq chicken with bbq pineapple I hope to repot some seedlings while the kids are at the park with Daddy. The best part is the kids jumping on the tramp while I make dinner outside. So precious.

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Chicken Matzoball soup

Ok, I made this yesterday and it disappeared in a FLASH of kid slurping frenzy!!  It was amazing.  The kids really don't like soup so I must have done something right.  As usual I didn't follow a recipe, because rules aren't my thing, BUT I have been asked to post the recipe so here it goes to the best of my recollection:

Chicken Matzo ball Soup
4 chicken thighs
1 spring rosemary
poultry seasoning
chicken broth

carrots
onion
celery
water

Matzo ball Soup Mix

Combine first 5 ingredients in crock pot for 4-6 hours.  After this has cooked remove rosemary and bones and shred chicken meat.  The add diced carrots, celery, and onion to broth.  Add enough water to cover completely.  When you are about an hour from serving, make your Matzo balls according to the box and add to the broth.

That is it.  Easy as pie.  Hope you try it.  Let me know how you varied the ingredients as we know I never make anything by the book.  So this will never happen again, at least not like this.  Sorry there are no pictures.  There was nothing left to photograph! :-)

The new pumpkin area

Finally expanding, we knew it would happen eventually.

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Lilacs

Lilacs are the key to my happy place. I love this time of year.

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Granola Bars

So today I tried something different. Because my granola tends to crumble when I cut them into bars I thought I would try out a small batch in my silicon muffin tin. Looks like they works like a charm. This time I did cherry almond and butterscotch. They smell good, let's see how they taste.

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Garden 2012 day 1

Starting seeds about a month later this year so, we will see how it goes. Doing herbs in old coffee cans this year in hopes of detering that D@mn squirrel. I am going to be screwing them to the fence so hopefully he won't be able to get to them. So far we have started flowers for the kids, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cabbage, brocholi, & cauliflower. They seems to do better with a good head start. Going to til in an few weeks and hope for no late frosts, but so far looks like it is going to be a warm one. 80 degrees on March 30!?!?

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Leaking Roof

The sound of dripping water at 4am, not usually a good thing.  In fact, I can not think of a time it is EVER a good thing.  Well, all the snow has been melting in the warm day time sun and freezing in the single digit nights.  This caused a good 6 inches of ice built up in our gutter causing ice to seep in under the roof where it then melted and started leaking through the ceiling of the bay window.  Scott got up at 4am when the dripping began and tore off the framing around the window and then climbed up in the atic to mop up the water, then got on the roof and chipped away at the ice.  Hopefully everything will be ok tonight.  Only time will tell as the temperature begins to plumet again.

Blogging Spurts

So I was just perusing some blogs reading about everything from crafts, to being and Army wife, to loosing a first tooth.  Exciting stuff, but what I noticed over and over were the words"I haven't stopped blogging"  "I haven't falling of the face of the Earth" and simply "I'm back".  Now as you may I know I myself keep my blog up to date.  If by up to date you mean at least a post a year.  What is it about blogging that makes it so touch and go?  Is it Facebook, because let me tell you that baby gets updated every week.  Even if I am in the hospital, oh who am I kidding, ESPECIALLY if I am in the hospital.  I find my blog to be more of a personal journal more than a public "Hey everyone, TJ just learned to ride his bike without training wheels!!!!"  Now I know there are a few close friends and family that are subscribed and do keep up with my blog, but I still find it to be a more personal outlet for my frustrations or compltely random thoughts.
  Do we blog less often, because we think our entried need to be profound?  Maybe beacause they should be longer than a one sentence status update.  I don't know.  If I only blog once a year it is still a snap shot back into that year.  I love looking back at old blogs.  I especially enjoy the ones that may mention one of the dogs or the cat as I miss them all so much.  Maybe one reminds me of something quirky my kids did as children.  I just like to relive those moments.  So, even if I seem to have fallen off the face of the Earth, I will be back...

It almost did me in

I am slowly coming out of a week with a terrible cold.  Sat/Sun of last week I started off with a cough.  Nothing a tough guy like me couldn't handle.  So I spent Saturday flinging and counting cases upon cases of Girl Scout cookies.  Then I spent Sunday teaching Sunday School to a class of out of control 2nd grade boys then drove to the Springs, well, I didn't acctually make it before my truck decided not to go another inch as I was barreling down I25 at 75 miles and hour.  Thankfully I was close enough to call my dad and he came to my rescue jumped the truck bought me a new battery and I was back on my way to spending and hour going door to door in the wind selling cookies with Katie.  This may have been part of the reason I spent Monday on the couch sleeping in between starting new cartoons for Delilah.  Tuesday was slightly better as I sent Delilah off to school and went back to bed.  By Wednesday I got the call everyone dreads from the school.  "What were you thinking sending your sick kid to school?  We don't want them here, come get them."  Sigh, this call comes an hour before I am taking my Scouts to JumpStreet.  Calling all Moms, calling all moms.  I NEED BACKUP!!!  This was followed by 3 days of taking kids temps, drugging children, getting puked on and napping on the living room floor.  Good times.  I am happy to report I sent 2 kids back to school today and ran a few erronds, but I am exahusted already and want to go back to bed.  But, on the bright side, my pants are a LOT looser.  I guess not eating for a week is one diet plan that works, although I don't recomend it.