Fall chores and illness..

Well let me fill you all in on how the Gross weekend has been going.. Yesterday I took off with my very good friend to spend a full day of shopping.. (which I needed.. all you stay-at-home Moms know that there comes a time when you just need a break from everyone for a whole day! It helps you recharge your tolerance and patience levels!!) Thanks for the much needed break Michele! Mike, bless his soul, undertook a mission that only the craziest or bravest (not sure which) of people would attempt without any backup... taking all 3 kids, ages 6, 4, and 3, to the movie theater alone. He then treated them with a trip to the apple orchard (Mike wanted a pumpkin roll, which they make fresh on request for you on site..) They had a very good time without Mom and I had a great day without kids!


Today Mike and the kids are doing chores outside. Its leaf collection time.. The funny thing is we don't have many trees in our yard.. All our neighbors do.. We do have a fence though, which catches all of our neighbor leaves.. Hence all their leaves become our leaves to dispose of... Doesn't seem quite fair but such is life!! (I have to ask you all to check out Lillian's cheeks, she still has Abby Cadabby freckles on them... I put them on with Covergirl 18 hour wear lipgloss, and now they won't come off! Too funny!) Mike also is planning on making room in the garage for me to park for the winter. I told him I don't scrape windows so he better be getting that taken care of soon! For those of you that don't know.. Mike is restoring a '68 Chevy K10 truck. As you can imagine it kind of takes over the garage, that along with all the kids outside toys.. So today he is planning on carting the toys to the basement for the winter and getting his truck designated to one side of the garage. Yay!!!


And for me, well I plan on spending the day taking it easy and trying to get over this illness that has knocked me down for a loop last night. It's so funny.. I felt fine yesterday morning.. At the mall I started to cough a little and feel some schmuck in my chest, and last night it hit me full force! I lost my voice, and couldn't even cough anymore... Lillian is so funny. She came in my room this morning to see how much longer I was going to stay in bed.. And asks me, all concerned "Mommy, what's wrong wih your voice?" Where I proceed to tell her that Mommy got sick and has lost her voice.. She then says, all serious-like "Well I hope you find it soon because I don't like it!!" I told her I hope so too.. And I am feeling much better this morning! I can cough again, my throat isn't sore anymore and my voice is starting to come back.. Which Lillian also took note of as she told me "Mommy, you sound better, I think you found half your voice!" Yay! Mike has been the model husband, letting me sleep in and taking care of the kids... I think more out of guilt and concern for his well-being as he is leaving for the week tomorrow for a conference in Tennessee! I have to say that I've been taking Zicam for the first time and I really think that it may actually be working! I seem to be recovering very quickly! I was always so skeptical of that stuff but my opinion is rapidly changing! Awesome stuff!