A Quick Run-Down

So I just noticed that I haven't posted in a few days so here's a quick run-down:

1. We got our new kitchen table on Tuesday. In case I forgot to mention it, we bought a new kitchen table the other weekend. I had been campaigning to get rid of our old one for about two years now and finally managed to convince Joel. The new one is not fancy but hopefully sturdy enough to put up with the kids' abuse. Most happily, the new chairs do not have any padding on them, which means they won't get disgustingly dirty like our old ones did.

2. Rebecca spent the day yesterday home with me with a fever, albeit a low one, and after a dose of motrin she was her usual happy and pesky self all day which made getting any work done rather difficult although I managed. I was worried she might be getting the flu, but her fever never really spiked... the highest it got was 100.7 and it was back down to 99.9 this morning. I took her to preschool this morning, but made an appointment for later this morning to have her ears checked, since now I think the culprit might be an ear infection.

3. Ben has been doing well, among his activities this week have been school spirit day at Chick-Fil-A, which he dragged me to for dinner Tuesday night so that he could get his attendance taken and hopefully win a treat for his class... the place was mobbed with kids from his school, and of course when asked what he wanted to eat Ben said, "a hamburger." I patiently pointed out the name of the restaurant to him, and explained that they only have chicken. As if he has not been to Chick-Fil-A 50 times. He also had his school book fair this week, and came home yesterday with some predictable titles -- a Ben 10 book, a book on dinosaurs, a book on spiders, and a book about all different animals' teeth and what they use them all for, which we read last night and was actually pretty interesting.

4. Joel is in Chicago for a conference, he left Tuesday and comes back tonight. So he has missed items 1, 2, and 3 above.

5. Go Phillies! Though I will admit I fell asleep at the beginning of the 7th inning... though the Phillies seemed to have everything in hand at that point... I woke up just as the trophy thing was being awarded. On to the World Series... Maybe I can make it through some of those games without falling asleep... but probably not.