3 Down....

I should have known that it was just wishful thinking on my part LOL

But here we are, 3 of us down with this cold. Nicholas is starting to get better, the fevers are all gone with him, now it's just the sniffles and a bit of a cough remaining.

Jasmine and I however are still going through the first few days of it, so to say I feel awful is just an understatement.

I can't stand the fevers, the way that they make me exhausted and hurt my body and leave with me no energy for anything. These are the days I miss being close to family and being able to turn to someone for help, even if just for an hour or two during the day so I can crawl into my bed and shake the fever chills away.

At least we're all sick at the same time, well, except for hubby and we're going to try and keep it that way. Needless to say there's lots of hand washing, soup eating, juice drinking, vitamin C popping around here. It's like a little clinic LOL

Thank the Lord that the kids are on Fall break today and Monday. It worked out just perfectly, this will give us 4 days to rest and heal up.

Boy it's been a tough cold season already, it's pretty bad around these parts and from what I'm hearing, around the country too. This flu season has come in with a bang and I'm just praying that we can all get through it minorly scathed, needless to say we need to pray and pray hard.

So what have I been doing? Well, I've been wearing PJ's all day and sweaters. IN.ARIZONA! LOL

You may laugh but that is how you can tell that I'm really sick cause that hot weather outside is definitely not conducive to sweater wearing. *snicker*

The kids and I have been watching tv and relaxing as much as possible and I've been blog reading and book reading and catching up on my Supernatural, I'm almost done with Season 4 and this way I can finally catch up to the new Season on TV.

I had to put my Little House on the Prairie on hold for now because the last disc I received was broken. I kid you not, it was cracked down the middle, actually broken, I don't know if it happened at the Netflix facility or in the mail on the way here, but it happened and even though I have the last two discs for Season 6 here, I can't watch them until I get a replacement for Disc 4 that I never watched.

Are you confused yet? LOL

I've always been on Facebook looking at the pictures my sister in law Lilian, posted from their trip to Portugal with my parents last month.

They actually went to Povoa de Santa Iria which is where I grew up and oh my goodness, it was so wonderful seeing the old building we used to live in and the aquaduct that we used to walk on.....yes you read that right.....walk on. I can't believe we did that and now I'm staring at the pictures thinking....UH??? If only my parents knew at the time what we were doing, we would have gotten a spanking LOL

Now see there, we used to walk on that thing, I mean really.....what were we thinking?

That's my oldest brother Paul....the buildings behind him on the right....not the first door, but the one to the left, that was the entrance to our apartment building. I have SO many wonderful memories from this place.

This road LOL Oh my goodness. My brothers and I used to build go karts and then race down the road, see how it dips?

Well on the left side in one of those buildings lived this annoying lady that hated the kids playing on that road, so actually used to put sand on the road so the go karts couldn't ride over....but my brothers and some of the older kids in the neighborhood would go and sweep it away LOL

See that yellow car? To the right you have a black one? Well right behind it, in that little corner used to be a tiny little store we used to buy food at. It was so small but I remember my brothers and their friends messing the crates at night LOL

They would hook up a rope to them and then pull them up a few stories and then BAM, let them go LOL


Another view of the building we used to live in.

Those days were so wonderful, I have nothing but the best memories from my childhood :)

Nowadays I will talk to my children about the things we did and the fun we had and they're actually jealous that they will never be able to experience the same freedom that we had. Times have truly changed and not for the better.

Anyway, thank you to my sister in law Lilian for uploading these pics, they brought back so many wonderful memories and even brought tears to my eyes, it makes me miss those carefree days.

I'm off to scrounge up some dinner and count down the minutes until I can get into bed and sleep LOL

Have a wonderful friday.

Off to the Arizona Science Center!

On saturday we were all feeling a bit better and since everyone had been stuck in the house for so long, we wanted to go out and do something but not be outside or running around too much so that we don't relapse.........so what was the best thing to do????

Head to the Science Center, it's one of those amazing places where you can be inside, get to play and touch and mess around with everything and then sit down and enjoy a wonderful IMAX movie.

That's what we did on Saturday and we just loved it, though the favorite for us all was definitely the IMAX movie experience, we watched "Sea Monsters" and not only does it make you feel like you're in there surrounded by the water and the fishies and sharks and whatnot are swimming straight at you, even during the scenes when you're watching people digging up the fossils, you feel like you're right there, you're part of the whole experience and at least for me that is what makes the movie even more enjoyable......not to mention very educational too.


I've uploaded most of the pics to the Flickr Photo Album so you can check those out here and here's some of my favorites.




We spent a couple hours there and then went by The Black Angus for dinner, YUMMY but yikes is it expensive, it's one of those "once a month if you're lucky" restaurants for us.

While driving home at the end of an exhausting but wonderful day, the kids were laying back in the car seats, their little eyes droopy and tired, their tummy's full from the wonderful meal and their thoughts on the days activities, I look out the window myself to see this beautiful sunset.

You know who I thought of instantly??? The wonderful Morning Glory at Seeds from My Garden, she is by far one of the biggest sunset lovers out there and posts gorgeous pictures all the time.



Not much else has been going on here, I haven't been cooking that much because I'm not feeling well at all, which means going out to eat or ordering out and that becomes expensive and really unhealthy after a day or two......I can't handle the junk food anymore and my stomach is deliberately rebelling.

So I've stopped the eating out and I'm cooking, well, having my crockpot cook for me so I only really have to put the ingredients in there and then walk away, right now I have Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore cooking and it smells DIVINE......boy I can't wait for dinner.

It's funny but it's 4 pm here and I have yet to put my laundry away, I almost keep wishing it would just do it on it's own with the snap of my fingers, but hey, I guess it won't. I really should get to it, it's just getting the initial movement of my body towards the laundry baskets that is the problem.

Then I keep telling myself that if I would just put it away as soon as it was out of the dryer instead of waking for all the loads to be done, maybe I can could convince my body that it wasn't that bad.......problem is I wait until the end then end up with 2 or 3 full baskets just waiting to be folded and put in their respective rooms.....that's when I just want to head out the door and run as far as my little legs will take me. Oh well, no sense in putting off the inevitable....I'm off to do laundry.

BTW I'm almost done with my second book in the Tucker Mills Trilogy and I'm just loving it, I can't wait to tell you all about it.

Hope you're all having a blessed Monday, I'll come by and say hi soon.