You have GOT to be kidding me....!!!!

Hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving. Would you believe I went off and forgot my camera. So, I have NO pictures of our day! Well here is my day today:

Two days before we got out for the Thanksgiving holidays, Bella got strep throat and I missed those 2 days of school. Today was our first day back and she started running fever last night. Jeff is sick, so he stayed home with her. I made an appointment with the ENT for both of them at 3:30. I get a text message from Jeff at 2:30 telling me "call me... 911". Needless to say, my heart stopped as I dialed his number. He told me he wouldn't be able to get to the doctor's appointment. I asked why, to which he responded: "I am lying on the floor unable to move." I immediately knew his back had to have gone out. (This happened 3 years ago and 2 months later he had back surgery... 4 weeks after I had a hysterectomy!) I was right! He was getting out of the shower, went to turn off the water and, obviously, moved the wrong way. I had to QUICKLY find someone to take over my class so that I could hurry home to another city (I live in a different one than I work) to get to my 2 year old that could wreak some SERIOUS damage with a daddy incapacitated!!!

Did I mention that I am keeping 2 other boys? My friend and her husband had to go out of town on business for the next 2 weeks. So they are staying with us during the week. I am now responsible for getting 4 children ready for school, fed breakfast and supper, homework for 3 of them, 4 baths and 4 to bed. WOW!!! Luckily, they are VERY well-behaved boys and will be no problem at all!

Okay, now back to me rushing home.... as I am hurrying home, one of the boys begins to feel sick. As I hear him cry from the third row, I look in the back and get him a bag just in the nick of time! At the SAME time the bars go down on the train tracks and I am stuck waiting for a train to go by us! At this point, I have one throwing up, a train detaining me and I realize that my car is running on fumes!! Add to that the thoughts I am having of Bella running loose in the house with my husband laying on the floor watching things come down around him! NOT a GOOD feeling!!!!!!!!!! Did I mention I am turning 36 on Wednesday????

I called Jeff, kept him on the phone with me, pumped my gas and got home! All children have done homework, Jeff has muscle relaxers that have kicked in, Bella got her Motrin, supper is cooking and I am ready for a VACATION!!!!! Anybody want to join me????????