What's going on?

I've been hiding. Well not really, I've been blowing my nose. Ha! Yes ladies and gentlemen, I have a dreaded cold. Complete with low grade fever. Fortunately, Little m is getting better, and Little d has a very light case of it. My mom and dad having been alternately helping me out since D just completed a full week of overtime. And of course now my mom has it as well.

So here are a few updates.

The tree is still up, but oh well. The girls like taking turns turning the lights off and on at night and in the morning. They even have a little ritual of saying good night and hugging the tree at night. Huh. My kids are tree huggers.

My brother and his wife are having the slab poured on their house tomorrow and I am so excited for them!

Our slab is scheduled to be poured this weekend. Don't get me started on the fact that our contractors have been on the job for a month longer than H and L's contractors. I am really not going to get hung up on the fact that our crew is not working as fast. Really, I'm not.

I've been having the best conversations with Little d lately. Two nights ago when she was sitting with me in bed (and I was all pathetic with this cold) she said "mom, you are really old." I laughed so hard, because at the time I was feeling really old! Then later she said, "mom, when this new baby is born, and when he grows up and if he doesn't chose a wife, and he lives with us, then when dad is at work maybe he could get the jewelry box down for me to look at!" My jewelry box is on top of a dresser and I always use the excuse that it's too hard for me to get down so we can only get it down with D gets it. I guess she was thinking about asking about it that night and knew what my answer would be. I love following her thought processes.

She cracked me up on Christmas day when she said "mom you think Pawpaw could stop focusing on the motorcycle and start focusing on going to Grandma Hawes' house?"

Or when she said "I'm smarter than a banana with eyes on it!"

She also told me yesterday (when I said I was tired of blowing my nose) "when you have a cold mom that's what you do, you better just get used to it."

I'm so glad I have her to keep me grounded.

Well I'm going to get off here and focus on resting. Or maybe just check facebook...