If you where to ask me - hey, you! - what my favorite day of the week happens to be, I would have to answer...um...what day is it, today and...uh...any day I can get out of bed...without my head hurting and my eyes bleeding puss...or, tripping over a 90 pound dog in an attempt to avoid the cat poop (don't ask) and the kids are NOT sick...well, heck-fart and happy birthday...today just HAS got to be a good one, right!?!?

I mean, Thing Two's fever finally did BREAK - after peaking at a balmy 105.2 degrees fahrenheit - but, NOT before enduring copious amounts of warm showers, cool presses and steaming hot mugs of mommy's homemade chicken soup, served up on a bed of crisp clean sheets and surrounded by her favorite stuffed animals.

Thank you for your kind thoughts!

Unfortunately, it DID take the entire four-day-weekend (happy belated Rosh Hashanah, y'all) in between running back (and forth) to school for soccer pictures (in the rain) and playing two soccer games (in the wet) at two different times, of course!

Which means?

[stops typing and does the math]

Running back (and forth) with Mini-me and The Boy (who requested a new pseudo-name and now formerly known as, Little Man) a total of five times and losing NOT just a soccer game...nuh-uh!...but, my keys...yuh-huh!...and my abilities of speech and hearing...whuh?...not to mention, my shiny new outlook and believing that, you know, I ACTUALLY know what I'm doing.

"Grab it...GRab it...GRAb it...GRAB it...GO AHEAD AND GRAB IT, ALREADY!"

The Boy was playing goalie - YIKES! - and he leaped on the ball, as if it was the last piece of coffee cake on a Sunday morning, just like I taught him to!

"Um...he can't come out of the box and...uh...just so you know...that's not YOUR Son!"

[blank stare]

"Well, heck-fart and happy birthday, we just got ourselves a throw in...go red!"

Stupid soccer! Then Sunday came, Thing Two was feeling much better and no one else got sick...[knock on wood]...and we were able to keep our plans of visiting with family, but Thing One was feeling out of sorts (she's not very fond of Aunt Flo, either!) and I got to do it...all...over...again!

"Here's your cup of tea, Sweetie...it's Vanilla Chai...your favorite, right...and a nice, big piece of banana bread!"

Because I am "the mommy" and it happens to be what we mommies (and daddies) do best!

[breaks into a big grin]

I bet you wanna know how I'm feeling all bouncy, right?

[quivers eyebrows and smiles]

Why, it's Monday...of course...and I don't think that there could possibly be another mother (or, father) happier, right now (besides Jamie, I mean)  simply because, well...um...there are NO children home...sick...at the moment and NO soccer games scheduled for next weekend and...uh...wait...what was the question?

But, guess what?

No, I'm NOT pregnant...[knocking on wood until knuckles bleed]...but, the hubs and I are going away (I know...what, again?!?) and this time it's strictly business.  Garth (not his real name) has some bank-like thing he has to go to and wants me to go...um...too. However, I'm not actually allowed attend the bank-like thing (that's okay, there's internet and a Panera's nearby...HEE-HAW!) and I've already planned on working in a scouting expedition of Charlotte, North Carolina. Thanks, to Grandma, Grandpa and the world's best Aunt...EVUH!...oh, and there are at at least two other people I'd like to mention, before I go.

Believer in Balance and I were roommates at BlogHer and she still thinks I'm nice - can you believe it?

"This award is for those bloggers who are nice people; good blog friends and those who inspire good feelings and inspiration.  Also for those who are a positive influence on our blogging world. "

Absolutely Bananas and I met at BlogHer and gave me a blogging award, anyway - for being a beast?

The THIS BLOG KICKS DONKEY BUTT award - for blogs that rock your world. Hard.

Now, I have GOT to tie up a few more loose ends (like, making sure there are enough clean towels and that there's food in the house) and then it's off to the balmy beaches of North Carolina...um...I mean...I think, it's hot there...and they have sand, right...um...what was the question?

Why, yes we're driving the entire 10+ hours and Aunt Flo WILL BE traveling with us...of course!