I just spent a half an hour writing a HUGE blog post and it didn’t save it! ARRHHHHGGHHH! Oh the joys of computers. Okay, I feel better now – trying this again.

My vacation this week could not come at a better time. I am ready for it! I leave Thursday and get home Saturday night. I am going to the Hearts at Home Conference in Bloomington, and I am really looking forward to it. I have had crabby customers and sick kids for a week now. I’m ready for a break!

I ended up getting the cold the kids had, but I am on the mend now I think. Dane was better Sunday and then ended up with a 104 degree fever again Monday (while we were gone at the trade show). Poor little guy! Today it was around 100. I’m hoping we’re done with it tomorrow. He has finished up his antibiotics, but I think it is just viral. I hear the 1 week fever thing is going around. No fun!

Sunday we had a 92 year old lady stop breathing and go into cardiac arrest. She was revived twice by members with CPR and then rushed off to the hospital. She is still there getting some testing done. That was pretty scary.

The weather has been in the upper 60’s the last few days so the kids have gotten to go outside a bit. That has been nice. Unfortunately it is supposed to get cold here again in the next couple days. Spring definitely feels like it is on its way though!

I did get Dane’s wallpaper down once I had the right tools in hand. Now I just need to get the new stuff up on the wall and we’ll be set! Maybe I can get that done tomorrow before I leave. We sold the crib to our neighbor’s sister who is going to be a grandma soon. It was very sad to see it go and know that chapter of our lives is through. However, I am very excited to be out of the diaper stage!

Last week on my first week of “Weight Watchers” I lost 3 pounds. I thought I would check in here each week since I am not going to the actual meeting to check in. Hopefully I will do okay this week – being gone on Monday and then this weekend means a lot of eating out. We’l see!

The trade show was fun and interesting to see so many products. It was a lot of walking – we estimated about 6-7 miles. There were about 10,000 booths. A lot of companies had multiple booths, but it was big! Matt whined and complained the whole time about his hip, and his back and his knee and….. he says he’s old. I think he just needs to get in shape, but he doesn’t care to listen to that advice…. We didn’t realize it was such a formal event. We both wore jeans, and we ended up only seeing one other person in jeans. Everyone else was in business suits. Oh well.. we were comfortable!

It’s almost 10 p.m. and I have only seen Matt about 25 minutes today. One of those crazy days! I’m going to do a tad bit of work and head to bed.