4 Miles

One of the things about being sick with the same thing as your kids, you start to understand WHY they were doing things like not eating much or asking for a drink ALL THE TIME.  I'm just sayin'.

All week I'd done the "right" thing–I'd gone to bed early, to get my rest. Only to lie awake for several hours and not sleep well at all. So last night I stayed up WAY too late at church, painting a mural for this event I'm part of on Saturday night.  (Too vague for you? Longer version: We have Missions Conference this week. We're doing an event to give the people of the church a "taste" of the missionaries visiting us this time. They get a passport and take it around to various rooms where they learn a bit more and do a fun activity. I'm in charge of the Kenya room. We thought it'd be "easy" and "fun" to decorate part of the room with a mural of the grasslands and let the kids color the animals and put them on the mural. After all, it's the grasslands. How hard can painting grass be?!?  It is neither easy nor fun. I'm wishing my talented sister was in town who could do it for help me. And am in more awe of her talent.  And trying to remember it's not about ME or MY abilities, that is not the point of this event. Let it go!) Anyway, I'm feeling the best I have all week, even with being at the church painting until midnight. So much for the "right" thing? 

Today I lost my voice. For most of the day I could only whisper.  Which sometimes caused the kids to whisper back. Other times it just made Alex run away and get into more things.

We had a fireman and a bumble bee for Halloween this year.  I had found the raincoat at a garage sale and thought Will would love to go as a fireman (plus, it's a rain coat we can use for another year or two! Win-win!)  Then Will wanted to be a lion (what he was last year).  So, for the Preschool Fall Party, he was.  Yesterday morning, he decided he wanted to be a fireman. I just had to shake my head.  

The boys got their costumes on and went to James' office to "surprise" him. (My calling him 5 minutes before we left saying "Don't leave to come home!" sure made that hard though!) They had fun knocking on his office door and yelling "Trick or Treat!"  Good thing Daddy has some candy (left over from the Labor Day parade)!  That was their one chance to knock on doors.

That evening we went to our church's Fall Festival.  There they played games and won candy and other small prizes.  Will's favorite part was the cake walk (where he won a cake) and a game where he got to shoot balls at a target.  Alex's favorite games was the "fishing pool" with magnets on the end of fishing poles and on plastic fish. I think he just liked swinging the pole around and splashing in the water. It was a fun evening and they came home tired.