So here’s what I did over the weekend:
1. Worried about contracting the swine flu.
2. Went to a wedding and ate the most delicious queso. In fact, when they ran out of chips, I seriously contemplated pouring queso over the sliced cantaloupe from the fruit table until I remembered that I don’t really like cantaloupe.
I decided it would probably be considered bad etiquette to just lick the queso off the fruit. My instincts tell me I made a good decision.
3. Went to a t-ball game where I had to cheer extra loud because Caroline’s usual fan club wasn’t in attendance and I felt the need to overcompensate.
4. Felt like maybe I was coming down with the swine flu.
5. Listened to Caroline speak approximately 4,746,982 words on Sunday alone. I don’t think she ever took a breath all day long, not even when I went back to my room and told her mama needed ten minutes of quiet. She followed me back there, stood at my bedside and counted down the minutes on the clock.
I had to take three Advils and some Evening Primrose Oil to find some inner serenity.
6. Went to eat dinner with our friends Kristie and George. Kristie is having triplets in one week and is on total bed rest. I’ve never seen someone who looks so completely uncomfortable in my life, but she is a trooper because she fixed her hair and was even wearing makeup.
If it were me I’d have transformed into Jabba the Hut, except not as charming and friendly.
7. Is my throat sore? Is that a symptom of the swine flu?
8. Caroline spent the night with Gulley and her boys on Friday night while we were at the wedding. I was worried she might get homesick, but as it turns out she’s decided she’d like to work it into her weekly schedule.
9. P and I stayed up late last night watching “The Notebook”. One of my life’s greatest pleasures is when he gets sucked into watching a chick movie and actually likes it.
Plus, I can ask him questions like “Will you come and read to me when I’m old and in a nursing home?” and he can reply, “Yes, as long as it has a pond where I can do some fishing while I’m there”.
He’s all mine, ladies.
10. Seriously, do I have really bad allergies or is this the swine flu?
And that pretty much sums it up.
On one final note, this post by Pete about the first day in India is heartbreaking and beautiful all at the same time.
I don’t think I’ve ever craved queso at 6:18 in the morning, but now I have. Thanks.
My three-year-old son never shuts up either. It’s endearing sometimes (when he’s talking to someon else) but mainly exhausting (when he’s talking to me).
I’ve never even heard of the swine flu! You been hanging around with pigs? LOL
The swine flu thing is a nut nuts! We have some friends in Mexico as missionaries and the entire town has been forced to stay indoors! Nuts!
Happy Monday!
I have a 13 year old son who could probably talk her under the table
Sometimes I tell him, “Stop, you’re making my ears bleed”. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Blessings – Lisa
I think we have the same life. I have a 4.5 year old daughter who talked at least as much as Caroline yesterday…and my husband and I spent the evening watching The Notebook as well. He had never seen it — now he know why I am always crying whenever it is on and I am compelled to watch it!!
Serenity Now! One of the benefits of not watching the news or reading the paper is that I had no idea I needed to be worried about the swine flu. Although I think I feel a tickle in my throat now. Thanks Big Mama.
Oh, I LOVED this post.
I am a bit paranoid about this swine flu thing too, and I’m all the way up in Virginia. But my sister is a nurse in the AF stationed at Wilford Hall in San Antonio, so I worry about her.
There are days when I think my 3 year old talked more than she breathed. Must be a little girl thing….
The number of words will grow exponentially as she does…trust me…I have two nearly grown up daughters and my youngest…my oh my can she talk. I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve missed a turn or exit off of a highway because I was so distracted by her chatter. (I love it though) You’ll discover when Caroline gets just a little older and the talking is still endless and you’ve perfected the ‘listening but not really’ look…well suddenly you’ll catch a word or two and realize they are saying something you really should be tuning in to. Happens alot. And when she goes off to college you will absolutely positively notice how very very quiet your house has become. And you will absolutely positively miss the chatter.
No Bruiser update? Now I am concerned…did he contact the swine flu?
yet again…you have made me laugh so early in the morning which today is especially remarkable seeing as i ran out of coffee (which has never happened);
so…thank you
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Okay, now I feel ignorant b/c the swine flu is all over the news. Oh, well, I suppose unless it’s mentioned on The Office or Sesame Street, I’m out of the loop!
I feel you pain with the 4,746,982 words spoken by Caroline! I think my Owen out talked her with 4,746,983 words yesterday…drives me completely crazy!
What’s Evening Primrose Oil – I think I need some. Thanks for the morning laugh!
Nice! Swine flu somewhat freaks me out. Stay away from swines? Seriously, how did someone contract it in the first place? Have a great week!
The Baby has croup and now I’m all snotty. I’m starting to get worried. Can you catch it through comments??? LOL
I read Pete’s post last night and cried. Because of your trip and Sophie’s trip, I decided it was time to sponsor a child from Compassion and did choose India. I’ve been glued to those 5 blogs since Saturday! : )
Love this post! Espcecially Caroline not taking a breath on Sunday! Too funny.
Worried about the swine flu too (sorry about the rhyming). I’m thinking we live way too close to Mexico.
And, I could watch “The Notebook” 100 more times.
Because I am really paranoid about this Swine Flu myself (what an unfortunate name for an illness) I e-mailed by friend who is a doctor. She said that you have to be in close proximity (like a foot) to someone who has it for a good length of time (like 6 hours) and that “they” aren’t even recommending a treatment because it seems to be a mild flu. So, even though that probably won’t stop me from going to the store and stocking up on bottled water in case we can’t leave our house, I am going to try not to worry about it.
I found you thru my friend Kelly. Your blog makes me laugh, ok if I list you on my blogroll?
Are you a germophobe like me? LOL! I always get such a kick out of you when you think the way I do. I think I’m just going to avoid the news coverage. Somehow I get the feeling they like to create fear in people when there is no need to.
Thanks for making me laugh this morning.
Hope everything goes well with your friend who is having triplets. My triplets are going to be 5 this summer! Triplets are a lot of work when they are babies, but now they are so easy. They have playmates! They only bug me to ask 3000 questions. Curious little buggers!
The Notebook is one of my favorite movies and once I convinced my husband to watch it he loved it too (mainly Allie.) We went to Charleston in March and toured Boone Hall Plantation where some of the scences were filmed…absolutely beautiful!
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who is mildly freaking out about swine flu. I dragged my five children to Wal-Mart Saturday night at dinnertime to buy more bleach and purell. My husband is on a business trip in Europe right now, and every once in a while I have a fleeting thought that maybe all air travel will be suspended and he’ll never make it home on Thursday.
Obviously I am very rational when it comes to this topic.
I’m laughing, because Hubs and I stayed up late to watch the Notebook, too–we must’ve been on the same channel. My remark to Hubs was that at least when I’m an old, senile woman someday, he won’t have much adjusting to do, since he’s been married to a young, senile woman for years.
Apparantly you are not the only one concerned with the swine flu. My boss just brought in ginormous containers of Lysol wipes and hand sanitizer. He suggested we wipe everything down every couple of hours. Can we say paranoid?
I’m a missionary in Mexico, and this swine flu made our kids be out of school now until May 6th… after two weeks of Spring Break the kids are getting just a little TOO used to being at home. Only now we can’t go to the movies, museums, or any place where the public gathers. I need ideas for keeping a panicked 11 year old occupied!
I made my Chris watch “The Notebook” once. He did fine until the ending (revealing the plot), then he angrily said, “Don’t EVER make me watch a show like this again.” He doesn’t like SAD. In fact, we take our lives in our hands around here if we dare sing or hum, “Puff the Magic Dragon.”
Oh, and he would want a shootin’ range instead of a fishin’ pond.
Praying for you to not get the swine flu. :0)
So I’m sitting int the lobby of the Westin in Times Square and see this pretty girl with dk shoulder length hair walk by animatedly telling a story to her companions and.. I thought it was you! File this under: Out of the blue.
UUGGHH!! Also having a sore throat and body aches. . .seriously regretting chasing those piglets around at the petting zoo the other day!
“This is Kermit the Frog here, some of the muppets in Sesame Street have come down with the Swine Flu. I blame those silly pigs I had to work with on The Muppet Show. Anyway, Gina, our resident vet prescribes counting to ten and singing the alphabet song. Back to you Gordon.”
Number 1. My husband, who doesn’t usually worry about stuff like this, talked about that swine flu ALL WEEKEND! I wonder if he could see me roll my eyes behind his back.
Number 5. My eleven-year-old also talks non-stop. She always has, so I offer you no relief whatsoever. This morning as we were walking to school she talked for 15 minutes straight about TEETH. Ugh. I couldn’t get her there fast enough.
I hear you on the swine flu, sister. Last night I actually caught myself lying awake in bed, mentally reciting the list of the five key symptoms of swine flu that they showed on the news yesterday, just to be sure that I remembered them in case the kids get sick. Oh no, I’m not even a little bit neurotic.
I used to love ketchup so much that I ate it off of cantaloupe to prove my love. I forgot that I hate cantaloupe and after that completely unforgettable flavor combination I didn’t love ketchup so much either. It would have been terrible to have that happen to you and queso!
So I don’t know if I should be more worried about NOT knowing what the swine flu was until this morning or the fact that I could NEVER get hubby to read to me when I get old….sad.
There has been a confirmed case of swine flu here in Ohio, in a town about an hour away from here, and that is a bit too close for comfort for me!!!
My youngest daughter (age 14) can talk all day long, too. Her incessant talking drives her father crazy, so she mostly follows me around, talking all day. She did that all weekend, so I have to admit I was ready for a break when she went back to school today!! LOL!!!
That P is quite the catch!!!
Oh, I’m sure I’ve got the Swine flu, too. Or I will very shortly. We’ve given our kids specific instructions on more handwashing, though, in all seriousness, because of this, and have given them their own personal Purell so that they can disinfect themselves randomly throughout the day. Prediction: Anna Grace will over-disinfect herself into oblivion and the boys will forget about it entirely until they are completely immersed in a Swine Flu of epic proportions. Or just really dirty. One or the other.
Queso at the reception = long, happy marriage. I think it’s Biblical.
So I came down with a pretty decent cold in the midst of this Swine Flu outbreak epidemic pandemic situation. I thought, ya know, canadians are safe. Nope. There are 4 cases in the town my husband works in about 45 minutes away. super. Nova Scotia has not escaped this pig disease. So, I spent the morning researching on the internet because what else could I do instead of panicking and obsessing? Panic and obsess some more. So far, I feel confident that I am only suffering from the common cold (or a mild case of the SIV) I plan to survive this and I know you will too
Funny, funny!………and tiring.
I loved this post!!!!
Yeah . . . we hit that number of words on a daily basis too. Love the clock counting down . . . that’s so what happens at our house!
I swear that your daughter and mine share a soul. My daughter has been known to count to 100, a hundred times, just to listen to herself talk. I have to remind her that it’s OK to not talk all the time. It’s OK to think things in her head and not make them come out of her mouth.
Let me know if you find a way to make that stop.
I keep thinking my allergies are swine flu too!
LOL the swine flu part cracked me up!
Are you in the SCUCISD district? My parents live up there, and they are closed for the whole week! Bummer…
My husband must NEVER read this.
His first words when he walked in the door this evening, “I’m worried about the Swine Flu.”
AFTER I told him I’m achy and cannot get rid of my headache. I told him Louisiana has no known cases.
It didn’t help. So I became paranoid.
You’re not helping. Are maybe you are. Maybe I DO have it and you are the one responsible for encouraging me to get checked out.
Now I’m itching. But I don’t think that’s a symptom.
I’ll keep you posted.
My daughter – 18 months old – has a lot of words to say each day, too. Unfortunately, I can only understand a handful of them (including her newest: NO). But most nights, after I put her to bed, she sits in her crib talking. Using up the rest of her words.
Oh, and I think you just have allergies.
Oh my girl, we were in San Antonio this weekend and I all I could think about was the Swine Flu! Consumed by it actually. On Sunday we were going to San Marcos to the outlet mall and as we entered the county where the swine flu was mentioned, my husband made it known to me. We turned around and went home, seriously. Obsessed with it! We did love Shamu though!!
Oh and the other thing I thought about while we were there was ” I wonder if it is possible that the good Lord would allow me to run into Bigmama?!”
I think Caroline and my daughter are twins. Seriously – the talking NEVER ends. How do they have that many WORDS??? I love to talk but even I reach my limit once in a while.
It’s probably just allergies – I had to get a steroid shot on Saturday because my nose swelled completely shut. Fun weekend, huh?
I was laying in bed sick when all this swine flu stuff came up. Everytime I coughed at work today, I announced to whichever customer that I was working with that I DID NOT have swine flu. The pollen here is 11.5 out of 12. I’m suffering from major allergies.
I hear you, though. You are certainly more ground zero than I am in Ohio, but I’m concentrating on praying about it.
Queso on cantaloupe? Must have been some pretty kickin’ queso to consider cantaloupe. I don’t like that icky melon either.
Oh, Big Mama – I think our husbands could be related…
Hope you are feeling better…
Amy
Thought you’d want to know that they’ve discovered that the earliest (and most certain) symptom of swine flu is paranoia.
You’re welcome.
i stayed up to watch THE NOTEBOOK too!!! even tho i can’t tell you how many times i have seen it!!! it never gets old!
ashley
you are HILARIOUS. i read your blog every day and this is the first time i’m commenting. i can’t even count how many times i crack up laughing at each post. my husband sounds genuinely concerned when he hears me reading it from the other room. (yes, HEARS me reading it, that’s right.)
and guess what???? “the notebook” is in my dvd player RIGHT NOW, getting ready to be watched! …and that happened before i even read this, like 5 minutes ago. now, how cool is that?
thanks for the laughter…it has healing properties, you know.
i love swingin over here & laughing out loud in the silence of my home ( sorry, my caroline will indeed be here in 2 hours and it will no longer be silent)
you’re a riot
even if you do come down with the swine flu
LOVIN all the compassion posts
i’ve become a total stalker
ox
I am sure Kristie is all hooked up…but please tell her to feel free to e-mail me if I can help with moral support or pratical tips.