Getting babysitters, difficult. Deciding if I can leave kids, very difficult. Watching kirk fish while reading on the beach? Priceless

I love my kids, I love my washing machine and dryer, my yard, my friends, my fridge, my stove, my computer, our pets...my kids... and I will love them even more on Saturday afternoon. :)

Beautiful labor day on the hoche

Ode to medicine

I tried coming up with a clever poem about the marvelousness of modern medicine, but alas couldn't! After having Elle lay in bed with a raging fever for a day and a half, put her on amoxicillan and the next day she is running around normal, that is a wonderful beautiful thing! Both Matt and Elle have strep throat and I'm holding my breath that no one else gets it. Especially me, since Elle spent 2 sick nights curled up against me breathing on me! Its hard to complain when I know she is going to be 15 someday, I'm hugging everyone a lot more lately, knowing that for awhile they will stop. I'm of course also grateful for epidurals and excedrin.

Family Picture

Here is our latest family picture. I debating making it the picture at the top of my blog, but I just couldn't do it. Even though that photo is a few years old, it's just so cute! Is it time to put a new one up there, or keep it as a memento for when I started the blog?
I also thought of using it as our christmas card, but Matt doesn't have a shirt on and Kirk is wearing a dude rag, although he calls it something else.

My friday excitment

So Matthew texted me from school today to let me know he is a vegetarian now, and would I please make him a veggie burger for dinner. Good thing it was a text because I laughed so hard my stomach hurt like I did a 3 minute plank! I wonder which girlfriend of his is a vegan and how long this one will last.
Elle stayed home with a high fever and some throwing up. Weird she was totally fine all afternoon and then came home from gymnastics sick. Kinda like when she used to go to the neighbors house to play she always came home and got a fever, what could do that? Yesterday was her first day going with a friend who wants to carpool to gym, does this mean something in their car makes her sick? weird