Update On The Candy Conflict

10 ways that you know you’re getting over the sinus infection you’ve had for 7 weeks

1. You actually want to get out of bed in the morning.

2. You make your bed.

3. You clean up the disaster that is your bedroom.

4. You put on a pair of jeans instead of the same pair of sweatpants you’ve been wearing every day for 49 days.

5. You have the energy to make the kids clean up the rest of the house and all their messes. That’s pretty impressive considering it takes more energy than just doing it yourself.

6. You patiently help your son decorate his shield for scouts that night.

7. You make a lunch that actually has cooked meat in it and without noodles.

8. You don’t strangle your 6 year old when she goes in the baby’s room during her nap and wakes her up.

9. Just when you’ve cleared a path to the computer and the kids have settled down with a movie that you rented for them last night, you start feeling sick to your stomach and have to go back to bed. Either you have food poisoned yourself because no one else is sick or you are the lucky recipient of the flu bug. Yay you!

10. You take everyone to the first half of scouts and then you run your son to his flight class, then go back to scouts, then back to the class to pick him up, then back to scouts to take his picture and at the end of doing all that while sick to your stomach you aren’t calling your husband, crying on the phone.

We tried to tell her that black and white cats were safe. It was the black ones that were unlucky.

The verdict is out on the Halloween candy conflict. I won!!! I had a few pieces of candy last night and a couple more this morning but I did not lose control or make myself sick. I ate as much as I wanted and I didn’t eat any more. I put all their candy in the pantry and then I didn’t even think about it again. We had a family counsel tonight to decide what to do with all of it. Usually I just let them gorge themselves until it’s gone but this year they got way more candy than I am willing to let them eat.

Victor decided that he did indeed want to make a candy sculpture with his. He asked me to hide it for him until I had time to help him with it. Persistence decided that I could hide her candy and give her one piece a day to eat at the gym. She’s funny, she likes to have one treat at the gym. Even if it’s only a little tiny sucker she is happy.

I’m not even going to go into the embarrassment that was their Halloween costumes. Does having cute bags make up for wearing the same costume three years in a row? I think so!

PS, I don’t have the flu. I came home after scouts and ate something and now I feel fine. I think I was just hungry and forgot to eat!

We have an amazing woman on the scout commitee that does things like have tapestry banners embroidered and build the pole to hang it on, make shields, swords and helmets out of cardboard, wood and paper bags for 30 boys!