This despite having spent a moderately productive and interesting day baking and wrangling said Zodlings ( Read more... )

Saturday, I went Christmas shopping solo, while Tom watched the boys, who were being exceedingly goofy even for them. I got my watch clasp fixed, bought Tom's Christmas present, and ordered some awesome red velvet cupcakes for him and his office, to be ready on his birthday next week as a surprise. Wandered around the old historic shopping section ( Read more... )

Tom came home from work while the boys and I were in the middle of dinner, looking sick and wan, and went straight to bed without eating anything. He spent most of the night throwing up. We think he caught the bug Mark had earlier ( Read more... )

It's always a fine line between putting off eating breakfast til my morning dose of stomach blerg passes, and putting it off long enough for my neck veins to start aching in what I used to call a "hunger headache" back in the day when I weighed 105 pounds and lived primarily on caffeine and pretzel-cheese Combos ( Read more... )

Mark and Jack both took short naps yesterday afternoon, which led to neither of them going to sleep much before midnight ( Read more... )

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/18/ben-stein-jokes-that-fox-news-might-kill-him-for-telling-them-taxes-are-too-low/Read more... )

Hence, no school for either Zodling, although Jack has a session with his new ABA therapist later this afternoon.

Mark's been up since roughly 2:30 am.

It's barely 7:30, and he's been sent to his room thrice since we officially emerged from our rooms at 6.

Oh, how I miss caffeine.

Which was a damn shame, as Tom and I had plans for that night, and the next morning after the boys were in school. (Military gives Columbus Day off; local school district does not ( Read more... )

and Mark develops a stomach bug at both ends.

Poor boy. Keeping him home today, and very cautiously falling off the caffeine wagon.

Sunday night, Mark did not fall asleep until midnight. x_x ( Read more... )