Recent Highs and Lows

Biggest low: gas prices here. I just paid $1.989 for gas! Yippee!

Next biggest low: I'm working on a full week of being sick. It had been sinus congestion but now it is becoming an upper respiratory infection or bronchitis. Great.

And the next: a friend was in town last week visiting family and we had hoped to get together. However, her kids were getting over being sick, and with me as ill as I was, we didn't get a chance to see each other. I'm bummed.

Highs: I finished sewing A's Halloween costume yesterday morning. Now all I have to do is cut out the Wonder Pets logos and iron them on to the kids' capes. My three kids are going as the Wonder Pets. B is Tuck the turtle, S is Ming Ming duckling, and A will be Linny the guinea pig. That is, if he keeps his costume on. Hope it doesn't rain like it did last year on Halloween.

Another high: I'm manic about getting this house in order. Even with being as sick as I am, I'm working to get the darn place in some kind of order. The workmen who repaired our water damage moved all the crap around in our bedroom, so I have no idea where anything is. I'm on a mission to get it all unpacked, sorted and put away. Meanwhile, I also need to get the boxes out of our one coat closet, because they are blocking the "Texas basement" (storage under the stairs). That is where I hope to stash the wrapped Christmas presents.

Just one more (possible) high: I hope to get some time this week to post again to my old mommy board. I've been laying low for over a month since some ugly stuff went down and I hope that they'll allow me to return.