Pathetic.

Well....so....Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, 3 birthdays, and Happy Valentines Day, we love you.

Didn't realize it had been November since my last posting. Oops. If you follow me on Twitter and Instagram, you have an idea of life in general. ;)

Thinking of trying a weekly review thing. That'll probably last a week.

But hey! Here we go:

Monday was Presidents Day. No school/No Work. Jared was invited with a friend to go up to their family cabin, so he was up (and over-excited)far to bright and early for a holiday. He was gone all day sledding, shooting in airsoft wars, and playing on the snow-mobile. Came home cranky & thoroughly exhasted, so we knew he must've had fun. The rest of us (minus Riley, who slept much of the day) went to a movie, Big Miracle, and had lunch at JCW's, a favorite local burger joint. The movie was good. I wasn't feeling too hot, and hadn't been since Sunday afternoon. I felt like I was coming down with a stomach bug or something. So a low-key Presidents Day done.

Tuesday was....well...not fun?  I woke up at 5AM with the "stomach bug" turned into some sort of awful aching on my left side. Got the kids up and out the door with Ron at 7:45. Then proceeded to die. Or want to anyway. Worst pain of my life. Very thankful for my iPhone Siri, as I was able to moan out "Come home please" and send it as a text to Ron. He very quickly schlepped Ellie to the next door neighbors....possibly still in her PJ's, and took me to the ER. We don't live too far from the hospital, but it feels like an eternity when you are trying to crawl out of your skin to get away from the pain. Thankfully, I don't know who had to run into the ER and tell them to come help us in as I only made it 1/3 of the way walking before I was a doubled over immobile vomiting disaster. What a sight! I am very thankful for IV's, phenergan, and dilaudid. Our guessed diagnosis was correct of a kidney stone. By the time I had the CT, it had already passed, but did get the bad news that I have more stones in both kidneys. Well, isn't that nice. I feel like a ticking time bomb! ;)

I'm not sure what happened the rest of the day. Got home in time for Ron to take Ellie to school, then remained in a coma-like state until Wednesday morning! I did get up Tuesday evening, but I remember nothing.

Wednesday, my wonderful husband stayed home and did all my jobs. Did them better than me too. Finished all the laundry. I really don't remember anything else, other than trying to remember what day it was. I was confused and felt like I lost a day. Because I did.

Thursday. I am not sure what I did. Spent a lot of the day trying to remember it was Thursday. ;) Got the kids to and from school. That's always good. I think I even cooked dinner that night, yay for me and my family! They got to eat! I think that's the day I went out and found my little battery powered tea lights for pack meeting on Tuesday.

Friday. Again, kids to and from school. Honestly, after Tuesday, the week was a practical waste. Or at least I was.

Saturday. Finally! I day I remember and I actually participated in! The morning was spent at a Relief Society Conference. A woman in our area that has literally dedicated her life to Humanitarian Service came and spoke to us, about why she does what she does and some of her experiences. She really is amazing, and spends just about all of her time serving others. We then spent the next couple of hours working on projects. I ended up making a baby rattle out of plastic mesh, yarn, and jingle bells. I didn't even finish it! Lame! It took a lot longer than it appeared to. I am hoping to set aside some time on a Wednesday to go down and help her during her regularly scheduled work sessions. And I won't be picking a baby rattle to make that time! ;)

Then Saturday afternoon for a couple hours I went to a baby shower for and with a group of women I met on twitter. It was fantastically fun to meet most of these women. I'd met about 3-4 of them before at other social media events. I met a few more that I didn't follow that I am now.

I know some people think it is odd to spend time on social media, and even odder to meet people that way, but I don't feel that at all. I have met some wonderful people "on-line", including my husband, and I would have fewer amazing friends without that social outlet.

Big thank you to my husband for letting me flit in and out on Saturday. It isn't his favorite thing when I'm gone all day like that, but he was a good sport. ;)

Sunday. The usual. A visiting teaching appointment (y'know, because it's the end of the month!) and then church. Ron wasn't feeling too good Sunday, so he stayed home. Jared had a talk. he decided to email it to his itouch and just read it off that. I didn't have a good feeling about that, but didn't pay attention to it. Out in the hall before Primary, I had him pull it up on his itouch. Okay, good, all ready. At some point between the hall and him standing up to do his talk though, he erased it. So after looking at me with absolute panic, I went up and just whispered something to him off the top of my head. I hope it made sense, and had something to do with the assigned topic!  Next time, there will be a hard copy in someone's possession.

Well, there you go. Incredibly long-winded story of last week. Now almost two weeks ago.

Maybe I shouldn't pick up blogging again! ;)

And yes, I am aware that I use too many exclamation points and winky faces. Get over it.

I should try and add a picture. but that would just be overachieving. Maybe next time.