Spring Break 2010 = no bueno.

Let's just say.... this Spring Break has not been good.  I have not had one good thing to even blog about.  But hubs told me that I really needed to blog because I am leaving all of my one reader (my mom) hanging.

Halle Caroline and I declared Spring Break 2010, "The Worst Spring Break Ever".  Well, I guess I could be exaggerating, I mean no one died and no one got cancer.  So yay for that!  However, Halle Caroline did come home from school on Friday with a fever.  uggghhh.  Really, the Friday that Spring Break starts? yep.  So, I just assumed it was a virus.  The whole weekend she ran fever, no other symptoms, except maybe just a little bit of a sore throat.  Nothing that she was complaining of very much.  Sunday, woke up with completely weird swollen gums and fever blisters.  weird. never seen that before.  On Monday, she's still running fever so I take her to the dr.  THE WONDERFUL MOM LOSER MOM THAT I AM WAITED TO TAKE HER TO THE DR UNTIL MONDAY.  this is where we pray that the gladney homestudy person is not reading my blog.  So we make an appt.  Our pedi was out of town and our favorite nurse practitioner was booked, so I get to see some dude named Mohammad (sp.?) that we've never seen before.  great.

Well Mohammad walks in... and he is not what I expected.... he walks in with a very loud "WAAAZZZZ UPPPPPP????" Come to find out Mohammad is quite a character and he's from Ghana.  Totally cool!  We loved him.  I told him that we were adopting from Ethiopia and asked him questions like how far was Ghana from ET.... he says, "come with me..... "  He takes us to this other patient room with a huge map of Africa.  He tells us some things about ET.  He said that he came home on the plane with 3 families that had adopted from ET and "you could just see the joy in their eyes".  Anyway, long story short, Halle Caroline had strep!  Loser Mom - I could have remedied that on Friday with some antibiotics.  She'd never had strep before - how was I to know?

I'm glad we didn't have some extravagant beach vacay planned.  It would have been miserable.   Anywhoo, no fabulous pics of the kids building sand castles or playing putt putt or dinner at fabulous restaurants in this post.  One day I was driving Brooks to a friend's house, and he said, "why are you so quiet?"  I said, "Cuz it's spring break and it's cloudy and ugly and we didn't go on a vacay, and I just want to be somewhere sunny."  He said, "well, you get to go to Ethiopia in about a year (TWICE), so be happy about that."  Nothing like your kids to put you in your place.

Lets end this post on a positive note... Some things that make me smile...

1.  I think we sold like 42 beach towels for our fundraiser.  :) I have to go back and count for sure.  I lost track.  Praise God!  I have been monogramming non-stop!

2.  I made a rainbow cake with Spring colors.  That just makes a person smile.

do not even judge my icing skilz.  I didn't have it in me to make homemade icing after baking those 5 layers.  The can of icing didn't quite cover the whole cake.  Martha and Whatever would not be happy.

2.  I had been in the monogramming dungeon and I came in to find this cute little set-up.  Ellison had lined up her Littlest Pet Shops all over the room.  I just had to smile.

3.  This is a drawer in my monogramming room.  It makes me smile every time I open it.  I heart ribbon.

 xo y'all....