Haha OK my turn, unfortunately my week was not nearly as cool as Meagan's! In fact, this is pretty much a rant. Apologies in advance for any whininess. I'm gonna put it behind a spoiler in case anyone's not in the mood for A Series of Unfortunate Events, but I can at least promise a happy ending!.
This week has been my kids' Spring Break (4yo preschooler, 6yo 1st grader), and it has been nuts. First of all, I WAS planning on driving home to KY to be with family over Easter. But then my car started acting up (car shakes when I'm braking, pretty sure it's warped rotors, but waiting til hubby gets home to take it to the mechanic so I don't get screwed. I can tell the mechanic all day long that I know what's wrong, and they'll still try to fix 18 other things unless I send a MAN with the car. Gotta love being a woman in the rural south without family around) and I decided I didn't want to do a 10-hour drive OVER mountains with kids AND a puppy if there's possible car issues. So I thought "hey, a nice relaxing week, right?" NO. First I find that my husband is being sent on a business trip, so he won't get to hang out with kids (aka "give mommy a break") in the evenings like I thought. AND he'll be away for Easter. Yay. So he's been gone all week, and as soon as he left I IMMEDIATELY get sick. Sore throat, headache, low-grade fever. Nothing serious, just UGH. And then last night, now that my immunity's all nice and compromised, I manage to get PINKEYE. It was going around the kids' school before break, and I'm not even sure how I got it, but just YUCK. Thankfully I have antibiotic eye drops from the last round (my 4yo got it a few weeks ago at school), but now I can't touch my makeup, just in time for Easter. And I'm wondering if I should throw out a few GDE shades that I used two days ago (approx 36 hours before symptoms appeared), I've no idea what the contagion rate is. And if I check WebMD, I'll just be sure I have some terminal illness within 5 mins.
Oh and the best part is just a few days into their break (tues/wed-ish), the weather turned to crap here. Just this past week it was high 70s/low 80s, now it's in the 50s with 30s at night. And rain, lots of rain. So then I have the poor kiddos stuck inside, on their spring break, with Mommy feeling like crap so I'm not up to the usual round of crafting and Easter projects that I normally would have come up with. It's been movies and iPad games all week and of course, now I have Mommy Guilt because I haven't kept the monsters entertained. And just for one final nail in this week's coffin, all of my usual babysitters/neighbors who can watch the kids have gone out of town. So I had to TAKE THE KIDS SHOPPING WITH ME FOR THEIR EASTER BASKET STUFF. Oh, I felt so horrible. I like to get them one "big gift" as well as all the candy, and I couldn't think of a way to explain to my 6yo how the Bunny brought stuff that he would obviously remember buying like, 2 days ago (thankfully my 4yo is fairly oblivious and forgets most stuff 5 mins after it happens.)
But then! Ray of sunshine! My older son lost his first tooth yesterday on the way to Walmart!!! (I *wish* we had cool grocery stores like Freddy's and Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, but no, we have Walmart). So when we got home, I had the kids watch Rise of the Guardians (animated movie, I actually love it - basically Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, the Sandman, and Jack Frost work together to save the world.) So I have kiddo put his tooth under the pillow, I do the Tooth Fairy thing undetected (very proud of myself, kept it together even after stepping on at LEAST three Legos) and then the next morning, told him the Tooth Fairy brought the Easter Bunny with her, I showed the Easter Bunny what we bought, because it's a new kind of toy and he wasn't sure if he had in any in stock for baskets, and he was going to take what *I* bought back to Walmart and put in a rush order with Santa's Elves for the toy in time to make it into his basket! And HE BELIEVED ME. OMG. I feel like I just saved Easter.
So I'm about to put together some Skylander-themed baskets, hoping I feel/look better tomorrow - turns out I can't really pull off the Igor/one eye half-swollen-shut look like I hoped I could. It's still going to be cold and soggy, so my neighbor and I aren't sure if we're going to do an egg hunt for the kids, or just take them out for lunch and let them get completely chocolate-wasted afterwards. I have *always* been around family for big potluck home-cooked meals on Easter before, so the restaurant thing will feel like sacrilege, but I refuse to spend a huge amount of $$ on a bunch of food that 1)we won't be able to eat and 2) I'll just get stressed out about cooking anyway. I promise to leave a huge tip for whoever ends up being our server!!! And tomorrow's makeup will probably go no further than a dusting of loose powder and some nice bright lipstick! I'm not even wearing the Easter outfit I already got - gonna save that for a lunch date with the hubs when he gets back from his trip.
If you made it through that whole long story, congratulations, and I wish I could reward you with some of this chocolate I'm filling baskets with! I promise, I will have (and give my kids) a fantastic Easter tomorrow! And I hope you all have a wonderful holiday too!
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