Friday Fragments! Is is Fall yet?

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***Wow, not so much of a slacker this week! I have actually been blogging again. I hope both of you who read this have enjoyed.

***I say "Is it Fall yet?" because around here, you wouldn't know. The weather has been CRAZY. After a very dry several months, suddenly we've gone damp. It has been damp for the last month. For the last week or so, we'll have a couple of cool, drizzly days followed by a warm muggy day. For example, Thursday the high was 89 and it was so humid you could cut the air with a butter knife. The predicted high for Friday is 65 and stormy. No wonder everyone around here is sniffling.

***I babysat this week. Is it really "babysitting" when your charges are 10 and 6? Oh, and a baby kitty. Being a homeschool mom, I had a lot of new experiences with the whole drop off/pick up line at school. Unfortunately, the poor kiddos got sick. (Not my fault, I promise!) The older one was already sick, but on antibiotics, so we thought we'd be just fine. However, Wednesday when I picked them up, the younger one looked pitiful. He said his eyes were watery and his head hurt and Ms Cunningham told him to ask me for Tylenol. Of course I am wondering if he has been sick all day why the heck didn't they send him to the nurse and CALL me to come get the poor child? He had a fever of 102.5 when we got home, poor little guy. I called his parents and they ended up cutting their trip short to come home for him. I did get to witness the surprised and happy kids reunited with their Daddy after six months. He is on his "R&R" right now. I so hope everyone gets well so they can all enjoy it!

***Since we had obviously been exposed to something, I decided to err on the side of caution and take some steps to protect us from getting sick. So we hit Walgreen's for a few things to help. The check out lady looked up and said "Worried about the flu?". Ya think? We had a big thing of Orange Juice, Zicam, and Little Colds Safety Pops (lollipops full of Vitamin C and Zinc). We'll hope for the best! My two older ones had FluMist last week, but little Boom can't get it until his 2nd birthday next month. I am getting the shot tomorrow.

***In addition to the kids, we babysat their kitten. We don't have a kitty ourselves due to allergies (both Man o Mine and me, but I thought mine were gone, as I have not had any reactions in quite some time when visiting with friends that have kitties). I LOVED having the kitty around, she was so sweet and cuddly. Unfortunately, she wanted to play at 4am. Not so sweet. I am also experiencing a pretty bad case of the "itchys" pretty much everywhere kitty touched me. I may not be over those allergies after all. Ooops!

***I won a contest this week. I blogged about it. Did y'all see? Here it is in case you missed it. I had a great acceptance speech all planned out but then Kanye stole my microphone and started blabbing on and on about something or another. I tuned him out and poured a celebratory round of Firefly.

***I am a sucker for yummy smells. I love Bath and Body Works, and they know I am a sucker. They keep giving me coupons and of course I keep coming back to use them. I had a "free candle with a $10 purchase" coupon so we stopped in to use it. I've been trying to decorate for Fall just a bit, so when I found an adorable Acorn shaped candle I had to have it. It is a ceramic candle holder filled with a "Leaves" scented candle. It is burning as I am typing and I can almost taste fall! (Seriously, I feel like I am tasting cinnamon or something like it!) Mmmmmm

***We are going to the Circus Friday night! I am looking forward to it. I haven't been since I was a little bitty thing and the kiddos have never been. Yvette's hubby has special duty doing a candle ceremony for Fallen Soldiers and was able to get us all tickets to go see the show. Should be fun!

***Boom has a "Halloween" shirt. Well, kind of...it is a demon monkey kind of thing. Isn't he darling? Please excuse the crazy hair, he just woke up from his nap.
***Princess apparently doesn't care so much for the pick-up line at school either. We were waiting in line Wednesday when she rolled her little eyes and said "Come ON ladies." Oh my...


Have a marvelous weekend y'all!