If you're in the U.S. then you know already about the crazy weather we have gotten the past 2 weeks. Our major school districts were closed 4 days in a row which no one can ever remember happening before. My work was actually closed twice, and it's never been closed before at all. Craziness! Texans don't know how to deal with ice and snow. At all. We raid the grocery stores before the storm and buy up all the bottled water and batteries and fire wood then we hunker down. When the snow comes we all go out and take the mandatory pictures of the kids in the snow. That lasts for about 10 minutes max at our house. This time was less. The temperatures were actually dangerously cold in the single digits at times so it was not even fun for the kids to be outside. Poor Owen fell right on his face in the snow and came in crying after only a couple minutes. (funnily enough the exact same thing happened to him last year) Collin and Timothy stayed out a few minutes more, but not much. Little cotton gloves probably do more harm than good once they get wet with snow. As for me, I stayed inside. I have been really sick with a sinus infection that is currently on day 12 and still show no signs of stopping.
Poor Collin had his birthday right in the middle of all the snow/ice mess. His birthday was the only day I felt it was safe enough to venture out to try to get to work out of the 4 days everything was closed. When I got home we headed out (on the ice) to Chuck E. Cheese's for dinner and games only to discover they were closed. I guess rats get scared of ice too, or is he a mouse? Whatever. So we settled for Cici's Pizza instead which was still fun, just not AS fun. The next day was Friday which I had scheduled to take off work to hang out with Collin, but we were stuck in the house again after a few more inches of snow. His party was scheduled for Saturday which we had to move to the next week because we couldn't ask everyone to drive in the snow. I felt so bad for him. What a birthday!
I did take him out on Sunday after everything thawed out. We went back to Cici's for lunch; turns out he loves that place. Then we went to see Megamind, which would have been a lot better for me if I could have seen it without the pounding sinus headache right behind my freakin' eye. Then we went to Toys R Us to buy something with his gift card from Uncle Brother. Side note for anyone that doesn't know - I call my brother, Brother. So naturally the boys call him Uncle Brother. It just makes sense if you think about it. :-)
Flash forward a week. I'm still sick. Been to the doctor twice now and they seem to think I'll live, but I have my doubts. We had Collin's party today. He told me weeks ago (and several times) that he wanted a surprise party. Timothy had to work because of the other snow day we had this week. :( My mom took Collin off on a short adventure so the rest of us could congregate. When they came home: SURPRISE! I think he was a little embarrassed, but he had a great time. Big thanks to BFF Sally who helped me out a lot today and bless her heart has been sicker than me this past week (sicker? more sick? I don't know I just picked one....) and her hubby, Brent who is always awesome. We had pizza and cupcakes and played pin the tail on the donkey and I think a good time was had by all.
So that's what's been going on. As always, best wishes to all of you out there. Let's hope for an early Spring, shall we?
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I was a little (well, more than a little) cross that I missed his party because of a little dusting of snow. But I'm glad he had so much fun and that everybody was able to come.
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