Katerbug Blue

I have to pick Daniel up. I just got a call from the school that he is not feeling well. Poor thing! Out of all of my kids, he handles being sick–the WORST! I’m glad it’s this week though, instead of next week. It’s bad enough Rob has to drive the two oldest boys to school a half hour away everyday and then pick them up after school. But to have to stick a daytime trip in when one isn’t feeling well is just asking too much!

Apparently he has a fever and is complaining of a sore throat–so I believe we will be at the doctors office later making sure it isn’t Strep Throat–with three kids to keep healthy, strep would be bad right about now!

I’m taking the kids in later this week to have their Christmas portraits done. This is always an exasperating time because there are four of them. It’s never easy to get four kids (including a 2 year old) to look good at the same time. Rob is pretty smart. She just takes individual pictures of her kids and then puts them together in a grid for her card. Every child looks amazing, and the sitting isn’t nearly as exhausting.

However, I love the look of a family portrait-or at least a portrait of all four faces in one. So I brave the Kiddie Kandids year after year, hoping for the best! I’ll let you know what we come up with!

We spent the afternoon and early evening doing the yard work. Whipped it in to shape, so to speak! We have 6 yard bags full of leaves–and that is more than I’ve ever had. When I was a kid we lived in a house with so much scrub oak. Every fall we would have to load the leaves into bags and take them down to the bottom of the yard and dump them out. My dad would then go through with his tiller and mulch them all. After many years of this we got smart. We got bed sheets for a king size bed–and we would rake all of the leaves onto the bed sheet and pull it down the path to the bottom of the yard. It saved HOURS of work! Oh how I missed the bed sheets yesterday!

Wow—the night before Thanksgiving–and we are getting SNOW! How fun is that! If it wasn’t so dark, and so cold, I would send the kids out to frolic in their first snow fall of the season!

Hopefully it will still be on the ground when they wake up in the morning. The first snow is such a treat!! I can’t wait to get out there and enjoy it with them!

We purchased this movie when it came out–and I have yet to watch it. My kids and my husband watched it last night–and they all thought it was a wonderful movie. One of the best animated ones yet. My sister’s family loved it as well-possibly because her husband is a Chef-so this is right up his alley!

I guess it is up to me to join the fun, and watch it this weekend!

We are traveling today!  I still can’t believe it!  We never go anywhere, especially during busy travel dates.  But my husband would like to spend Thanksgiving with his family, so we are heading to Wisconsin today.  It’s not too bad, it could be a lot farther–but it really limits the amount of left overs I’ll be able to take home with me!  Silly, I know-but isn’t the turkey sandwich at midnight the very best part of Thanksgiving?  Honestly, it doesn’t get any better than that!

I think all of this “World Travel” has left my body drained! We all got sick after the last trip–then last weekend in Vegas, I was bamboozled!! Flat in bed–so sick to my stomach, I was dying!! I missed most of Postie Con, stuck my head in for the last couple of classes, and of course the Argus Roll Out–boy was that sweet! I made it to the Tao after party–which was amazing and so nice to have little appetizers. That way I could add one to my tummy, see how it handled it, and then add another one! It was not the first time I was happy that I don’t drink however! I’m afraid that would have been the last straw and poor Tao would have had a big mess on their pretty red carpet!!

We spent the other evening with my nephew for his third birthday. It was so cute–he’s gotten to that fun age where he understands what is going on–and everything excites him. He ran around the entire party singing Happy Birthday to himself–actually, most of the time he was yelling it–but hey, he’s 3!

The cutest part of the evening came when we were opening presents. As with most little kids, he would open one gift and run off to play with it. His mom and dad would corral him in, and get him back to the task of opening his other presents–and it would happen again and again. Finally, he opened a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt–and wanted it on. His parents said no, but he wouldn’t listen. He finally just started to take his shirt off while running around to avoid capture. Finally he won, and the new sweatshirt was on! It was so cute!