Good morning.

Jeremiah and I shared a bed last night.  I got much more sleep that way.  LOL  Rob was at work, there was room in our King size bed.  He hasn't thrown up in about 17 hours.  But he's made it that far at least three times.  I'd be more excited if we could get 48 hours.  Heck I'd be excited with 24.

Anyhow he woke up twice for a drink, and then went back to sleep.  One of those times was when Rob staggered into bed at 6 this morning.  So much better then the last few days.

Rob stopped at the store that I sold my cards to, and the lady said she's already sold seven of them.    This for the off-season.  That was fun to know since I only dropped them off Saturday. 

I've been thinking about the baton coach, and I think I'm starting to wrap my head around a lot of it, and have strategies to deal with it.  And other then that we're just trying to get this boat back on course after a week of sick. 

I'm quietly laughing at the moment.

Our new team has just surpassed the amount of students on our old team.  I so wish we had the coach the old team did, but alas we're stuck with me and darn it but we're going to have fun!

Yup I added another student to the list this afternoon.

I suspect when the girls come with their batons to school we'll add a few more then as well.  Which would be fine with me.  If we get "too" many I will divide into two classes.

In other news...I'm also struggling.  I'm still not 100 percent.  And was struggling with the energy to go to Awana.  When Jeremiah threw up again.  He hadn't thrown up in 24 hours.  He's laying on my bed asleep.  He threw up just as I was laying down to get a nap to try to get some energy back.  The phone rang twice during that period too.

I read the head page of the local paper and started sobbing and couldn't stop.  I read a email from the new coach and started bawling.  And no I'm not pms'ing just still sick I guess.  It takes a lot out of you

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That guy there (points up)  He's a saint.  He woke up to help me clean up Jeremiah.  Again.  Even though I told him I could handle it.  He was sleeping cause he works tonight (all night as usual)  But he sacrificed some sleep to help me.  And when he heard my struggle with taking them to Awana he took two hours of vacation time and will drive them to Awana.  *phew*

So that takes care of that dilema.  I can place Jeremiah in front of a video game, and he'll just play until he crashes.  He LOVES unrestricted access to the video game.  *snicker*

He's always had the weakest tummy of the lot of us.  And has had about 5x as much throw-up since he was born then any of the other kids put together...I still feel nauseous, and am picky about food.  But as an adult I have the ability to recognize stop eating something that makes me feel bleh.  Jer obviously doesn't. 

And this family has had way way way too many discussions about up-chuck and poop this week. 

Lets all take this moment to contemplate roses.

Much better.

I'm feeling much better this evening.  And our baton practice went quite well.  We had another girl show that hadn't called which was excellent.  All told at this point I *think* we have 16.  But am not totally sure as several couldn't show today.

Any how in other news.

This is our "baby" of the family.  I've been blogging about her for awhile now.  She's actually already a bit bigger then this picture and doomed to get much bigger.  I quite frankly HATED her last week.  But after an hour of very hands on training she's okay in my book again!

She is meant to be an OUTDOOR dog.  And every time the door was open she snuck in, and immediately dumped every garbage in the house.  Major major puppy mess.

So I purposefully left the door open on a nice day.  And first I stood in front of the door and every time she walked in I popped her nose and kicked her back out.  After 10 or 15 tries of this.  She decided that game was rather old. 

So I got smarter, and stood around the corner from the door.  She tried that two or three times.  And then just gave up and went to sleep.

She's snuck in ONCE since then and that was today.

And yup she immediatelly tipped my garbage.  Little stink.  But that was a major improvement and immediately got booted.

Tomorrow or Thursday maybe I'll give her another open door test, but I think mostly she's got it, and it makes her a much much nicer puppy.

Great Danes are NOT meant to be house dogs.

Everything is slowly turning Fall colors.  I actually took this picture two weeks ago, but its still pretty, and I haven't shared one of the outside of my house in a LONG time.  So had to show what our house/property is doing.

Since last blogging about my rag rugs I've made umm four of them?  One for my living room which is beautiful shades of purple.  One pink/black one that I gave to the girls.  One I've got at a local store under commision, and one that's in process.  I would have sold the one in the girls room, but I wasn't happy with the tension in it.  It didn't want to lay super flat, I've learned much since then!

The last two I've had ZERO issue with tension, because I've finally learned when to add stitches. etc.  I really need to take a picture of my purple one.  It wasn't made with recycled fabric.  It was made with new...and it wasn't *cough, cough* cheap.  It will be the ONLy one I make that way.  It was just too much money.  But its so purdy!

Anyhow the reason I discussed rugs is Goodwill has had all of their linens on 50% off sale.  I've hit there twice buying DIRT cheap sheets/curtains/etc that will work for rag rugs.  Jeremiah will atest to the fact that I might have gone overboard!

Actually he thought it was funny and begged me to take his picture.  He likes getting "squished" when mom shops.  He's weird that way.

I have amassed enough for two very niced rugs in two sets of colors and spent not too much in the process.   I'm also collecting from the rummage store which has gotten me quite a bit.  But I forbade myself to collect until I build a bit.  hehehehe