Smiling Mom

Bac­king up two weeks…

eClaire was sick with the flu for a week straight. It was horri­ble. She had the runs and didn’t eat or drink vir­tually anything for a week. The last two major days of her flu, she threw up and was mise­ra­ble. She just wan­ted to be held.

During this time, it was my job to orga­nize and pre­pare for Steve’s pro­mo­tion party. I bought a sexy new dress from Macy’s, bought a tie and but­ton down shirt along with shiny black shoes for Bro. Clea­ned the house, made 4 chee­se­ca­kes, star sugar coo­kies, which were deli­cious with a sil­ve­rish fros­ting, to make them look like bad­ges. Also, I made a dou­ble batch of coo­kies. I was on the edge of melt-down. But exci­ted for the upco­ming party. On Wed­nes­day eve­ning, eClaire had her first meal since the pre­vious Sun­day. On Thurs­day, Hubby got sick. And when I say sick, I mean “ring a bell and come help me” sick! It was not good. We ended up in Urgent Care on Thurs­day, can­ce­led the pro­mo­tion and the party sche­du­led for Fri­day and went back to the ER on Sun­day. Finally on Tues­day, Hubby began fee­ling bet­ter. It’s been one hell of a ride.

Don’t worry, all chee­se­ca­kes were eaten. One by me, thank you very much! And all are fee­ling bet­ter. Aside from a snotty nose and cough, our kids and adults are healthy. Thank goodness.

For Valentine’s Day/Birthday, Hubby sur­pri­sed me with a day away. Not only did he find me a friend to go eat lunch with at Lisa’s Tea Trea­su­res, but he also sche­du­led a mani­cure and pedi­cure at a really nice spa called Burke William Spa. It was fan­tas­tic. But best of all, he orga­ni­zed all this and a baby­sit­ter to come watch the kids without me kno­wing. He then sent me off with cash to spend so this fun excur­sion wouldn’t show up on our cre­dit card later. Now that, my friends, is sexy!!

There is nothing like a few hours of rejuvenation!

Now I’ll leave you with a few of my favo­rite current pic­tu­res of my babies. Enjoy!

Bro dres­sed up like a hero

eClaire, ready to fight!

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