I can cook, I really can...

I've been a slack blogger. Things went crazy here last week with Doug away for 3 1/2 days and with my jobs and deadlines keeping me busy and with the end of baseball for Evan and Price. I also started class this week. It is a 2-week class, four hours a day. The biggest problem is the drive to get there is 1 1/4 hours, each way. UGH. Anyway, its been pure madness.

On a positive note, some of my girlfriends did give me a "surprise" shower for Nyah (it really was up until hours before when I almost canceled plans for what I thought was dinner due to all my work/school commitments and had to be told so I would show up). I will definitely post on that later this week. Thank you girls (and Doug for getting me there and Dwayne for, well, you know, that stuff)! It was a lot of fun and a wonderful distraction from the rest of my week!

On top of the scheduled craziness, three of the four kids were not 100% well this week. Evan went to the doctor for a sore throat but nothing was wrong that needed medication, though a lymph node in his neck was quite visibily swollen. Caleb had terrible headaches for a few days. And, for the first time in at least 2 years, 1 month, and 12 days, Brynn was "throw-up" sick. Even in the winter when the rest of us battled a stomach bug, she escaped it. I have never seen her sick and, well, it doesn't slow her down much. I am still not sure if she was actually sick (she only threw-up one time) or just ate far too many cheddar cheese Goldfish crackers but she did take a nap that day and then asked to go to bed at 8:30 so she definitely was not her night-owl self. The part that cracked me up is after she got sick, she was hungry. She wanted more Goldfish crackers. I gave her Saltines and Oodles-of-Noodles but without the flavoring so basically, it was a totally bland meal. After a few bites of noodles she looked at me so sweetly and said, "Mama, you make the best noodles eber!" I hope she is this easy to please when she is a teenager.