This Ol' Gal Just Ain't What She Used To Be

The weekend did not end up as busy as I planned it. Matt ended up having to work all night (9pm-8am). The plan was to let him sleep until 3:00pm and then we would go to his mom's house for swimming and dinner. Before he went to bed that morning, he mentioned that he had a terrible headache.

Since Matt needed his rest I took the kids to Mike's T-ball game at 1:00pm and got home around 2:00pm. I checked to see how Matt was feeling when I got home. He still had a headache, so I made him some lunch, gave him a couple of pain killers and let him go back to bed. By 3:00pm, his headache wasn't any better so the kids and I went to his mom's house without him.

We had a good time at my Mother In-Law's house. The kids and I spent a couple of hours in the pool, swimming and splashing. Mike is getting so good at swimming. It won't be long before he will be in the pool without a life jacket. Jake just loves the water. He just goes under and comes up, over and over. He loves it. Kyra and I raced from one end of the pool to the other. Then we wanted to see who could swim under water the farthest, without coming up for air. She actually beat me once! We also played 'Shark Attack'! We would take turns sitting on the float while the other would be the shark and try to knock them off. After a couple of hours, we all dried off and got ready for dinner (which was great, as always). After dinner, Kyra, Priscilla and I, sat in the living room and played UNO together (on our phones). By the time we got home, Matt's headache was gone.

Today, we promised the kids we would take them to the local fair. They had been looking forward to it all weekend. We got each of the kids, and myself, an armband (unlimited rides). The first ride we went on was like a free fall type ride. You sit in a seat and the ride takes you up very high. Once you hit the top, they just drop the seats! I was so nervous the entire way up and began regretting my decision to ride it. Then the fall... It was terrifying and fun at the same time (of course). The rest of the rides were the kind that were fast and spun around like crazy. After the first spinning, fast ride, I began to feel nauseous. I should have stopped there, but I didn't want to ruin anyone's fun. Michael was not able to ride anything without me and Kyra didn't want to ride most of the rides alone. Jake was tall enough to ride all of the rides but wanted someone on them with him. So, I kept riding, for my kids. Jake and Kyra were most excited about the Gravitron, or the Alien Spaceship Ride as they liked to call it. I had to decline to ride that one. Even as a kid, I could never ride it without feeling extremely sick. Since they both met the height requirement and it wasn't to scary, they went on it together, without me. We stayed for a couple of hours and then headed home once I was to nauseous to continue. Of course, by that time, they rode all the rides and tried to win a gold fish. Luckily, no one got a ball in a bowl!

We got home from the fair and I went to bed to attempt to get rid of my sick feeling stomach. I woke up around 5 and felt good as new. We grilled Brauts for dinner, yum. After dinner we all gathered in the living room and finished off the weekend with a movie together.

I love this family!