Fine, Fine, Fine in Georgia

Thanks to several sweet people who checked on us since I didn’t write on Monday. I had to use Monday to recover from Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

I wish I had some amazing story to tell you but most of those are already written and can be picked up on CNN and other online news sources.

Like the balloon boy hoax.

Don’t get me started on that one.

And since I did tell you all about that car in the sinkhole, I feel compelled to tell you that the driver was arrested on Monday. Seems he did it on purpose.

Really makes my weekend activities pale in comparison. I’m glad to say no one was arrested at my house. Knock wood.

We got Scary Baby off to a pre-Halloween birthday sleepover on Friday night dressed, most appropriately, to match her code name.

Her frightful costume created plenty of screaming and yelling. Though I don’t think it was suppose to come from me as she had a meltdown about which vampire teeth she was going to wear, her black boots were at the neighbor’s and a spider earring disappeared as she walked out the door.

I love Halloween fun to start two weeks before Halloween so by the time we get to the real Halloween, mommy has turned into a very scary witch.

Side note: I know several family members who shall remain nameless can relate to this. The rest of you continue with your sweet Halloween fun.

I think I popped the xanax right after she left because I was aware that I was exhibiting very witch-like behavior sans the costume.

The darling twins came home Friday {again} with only one extra Soldier as it was their drill weekend. An added bonus was that The Grunter did not have to work so it was our first Friday in several years we had the three lovely young adults big kids without Scary Baby.

We took them all to dinner and then went bowling. I’ll save the bowling throwdown story for another day. Suffice to say that we had some bowling etiquette issues with the eight teenagers next to us ending with one of the teenagers being kicked out and the management giving us 12 free games.

Another shining memory for our family.

It should be noted that those teenagers should be very, very glad I was medicated.

We awoke Saturday to Wizzy saying she couldn’t breathe and didn’t think she could go to drill. Roger Leroy headed out with her Soldier friends while PhilBillPaul took Wizzy to the walk-in clinic.

This is the darling twin who has been sick for several weeks and in spite of trying to tough it out, is not getting better. Imagine that her bronchitis has not gotten better after playing rugby, flag football, tubing and early morning cadet physical training. Shocking, I know.

They came home announcing we needed to take her to the emergency room because the physician’s assistant was very concerned about meningitis because Wizzy said she had a bad headache.

As they left for the ER, they stopped back by the walk-in clinic to double check everything because the darling twins were vaccinated in high school for meningitis.

The good news…

No Swine Flu

and no meningitis either.

Two days of complete rest at home with more sleep than she’s had in a year and she still isn’t better.

Sunday, Roger Leroy and Casey got back from drill and spent several hours looking for her lost wallet and ipod.

I cooked a Sunday dinner compliments of Granny’s homemade noodles overnighted from Texas.

I added a Pumpkin Spice Cake with that Maple Brown Sugar Frosting from last weekend’s cupcakes and made some Caramel Apple Kisses with pretzels and M&Ms.

Because we’re still watching our sugar.

The wallet and ipod were located by Casey and Wizzy. In her bookbag. Roger Leroy is like the scarecrow on Wizard of Oz and that’s being polite.

After they ate, they headed back to college. They couldn’t wait for the desserts to cool down so she took a sad little container with 3 kisses back with her.

This is what happens when you set your camera on “cuisine” setting and turn off the flash.

Finally, three hours at urgent care on Monday with chest x-ray and blood work has confirmed Wizzy still has bronchitis and will be staying home for a few more days.

Such a boring weekend here. Please tell me you all had a much better weekend?!