Its A Hard Knock Life, For Nick

This past weekend, Nick had the opportunity to go deep sea fishing. He has a great time when he goes, seasickness aside. Actually, he wasn't too sick this time! Maybe he's getting used to it.

They went from southern CA down to Mexico and made quite the haul of dorado and tuna. There were 5 men on the boat and at one point, they EACH had a fish on their line! It was a very exciting and super-fun trip for him. The fishing was great this time. I think they caught a total of 26 fish. Lucky guy!

His laundry was a little smelly - and it took two washes to get MOST of the fish smell out of them. He cleaned some of the fish, as you can tell from the pics.

We're glad to have him home, and the fish too!

Stickered

I am a canvas for my children's art :) 

 

We're back in the land of the living!

Well, we've been back in the pink since Sunday - thank you everyone for letting us complain about being sick! :) It's over and we're glad!

We've had a fun week of feeling healthy. We got to go to Fry's on Monday and Costco on Tuesday. Myla and Gavan really like fruit snacks and we picked up some of the Kirkland brand ones while we were there. We got to get pizza with a bunch of friends on Wednesday too and I got some much needed grown-up talk time! Thanks guys :)

So, today, I'm upstairs playing on my laptop while Myla is watching an Elmo video. She says to me, "Mom, go downstairs and get me some fruit snacks." So polite, huh? Well, I told her that if she went down and got a packet and brought it upstairs, I would open it for her so she could eat them while she watched her video. It took a few more times of her asking and she realized that I wasn't going to get them. 

So she paused her movie (she knows what a few buttons do) and headed on down. 

Then, she came up into the loft carrying the ENTIRE box of fruit snacks! And she says to me, "Mom, um, I'm really hungry for fruit snacks so we can have the box up here with us!" 

Brilliant, huh? :) She's thinking ahead! She ate three packets of them right in a row. Or so I thought. She stood up from the couch, and there, nestled next to the armrest, is a pile of about 2.5 packets worth of fruit snacks. Guess we weren't as hungry as we thought :)

Summer Sickness

Wow - some of you have already listened to me complain (thanks for listening!) but we have been sick over here! Gavan was sick all of last week and Myla and I have been sick all of this week.

And I can tell you that I am sick and tired of being sick! I'm kind of stir-crazy, thinking now I have a serious case of cabin fever. For some reason, my one trip out of the house this week, which was to the doctor and Wal-Mart to fill my prescription when I almost passed out three times, just was not enough to keep me sane. 

We've unfortunately watched nothing but TV for going on two weeks solid so I think we've all gone goofy.

Nick has been lucky and has thus far not gotten our rotten bug. Which, is some tough virus. Antibiotics did nothing! Oh well. Like I told someone, I guess it was our turn to be sick because I honestly can't remember the last time I felt this bad for this long!

Today is actually really looking up so here's hoping it'll be over SOON!

Also - we all have a new and profound appreciation for painkillers & fever reducers :) Special thanks to advil & children's motrin for pullin' us through :)