What Have I Been Doing?

Don't worry, I'm not dead. Almost, but not quite. We've had a little visit from the black plague at our house these last few weeks. Throw in some allergies to top it off, and mostly we've been miserable slugs lying about on the couch. Not all at once, just two or three of us at a time dragged out for 2 weeks. We're still coughing and sniffling, but we've been fever free for 3 days now, so I think we might pull through. Praise the heavens above. If one more member of this family even thinks about getting sick in the next year, they're going to be banished.

So, ya, I haven't been blogging. Why? Well, because there hasn't been anything going on to blog about. I've been wiping noses, parceling out medicine, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning...and not to make my house look nice, because it hasn't once been clean in the last 2 weeks, but cleaning up cups, and tissues, and blankets and stuffed animals, etc. that get used and left out and dragged around. It's been a long two weeks. I've been snuggling a lot of children, watching a lot of kid movies, and reading, reading, reading. (As you might have noticed from the plethora of book reviews that I published before this.) Good thing we have books, so that we can escape when we can't escape, right?

Yesterday was Memorial Day, and I think we felt fairly decent. Everyone is still coughing, and Aaron has really bad chest and sinus congestion, BUT we ventured out into the populated world yesterday to buy some more trees! Yay! Happy late Mother's Day present to me. I got two new trees. Of the 6 that I got for my birthday, 2 of them died. So I no longer have a pear tree or a plum tree. We checked as Lowes, when we returned the dead pear tree, but they didn't have anymore pear trees, or anything that we wanted. So we went to Home Depot and found a couple of shade trees. In the front yard we planted a purple flowering plum tree. It has purple leaves and gets little pink flowers in the spring. We also decided we need a shade tree in the back yard too, so we have a shady place to play in the hot summer time. We bought a Little Leaf Linden for that. It'll get about 50 ft tall at some far away future point in it's existence. It will also screen us a little from the houses that will eventually be built behind us. So that's nice. 

Hopefully things will start to pick up this week and get back to normal. I have big plans for June and need everyone to be healthy!