Last night Addison woke up within a few minutes of going to sleep….hysterical. Rinse and repeat. Then she woke up on and off all night.

An hour after Addison went to sleep, Noah woke up hysterical. Or rather he was hysterical but asleep. He comes strolling in at 5am all mad because he had been screaming for us and we didn’t hear. Shit. He says he was up all night with wacky dreams and weirdness. Then he started talking about the “racket” in his head like some little Landmark Forums graduate or something and I told him he could get up for the day (alone) if he promised to take a nap (a little issue I have only just remembered now at 5pm - too late for said nap) and Tony got up for the day and let me sleep - bless him.

When I finally stumbled out of bed at 9am all headachey and wishing I was still asleep (normal for me but whatever) Tony broke the news: Addy is sick. Again. We all JUST got over a round of colds and I still have the lingering cough. But here we go again. Verdict is still out on Noah who will likely be sick by morning.

I was getting a little freaked out at where she would pick up another virus so quickly when she really hasn’t been out much when my friend D~ called to say her kids are all sick too. Apparently the Herp Expo shared more than just information on snakes, lizards and turtles. Dammit. September in Houston is like January in Michigan. No one goes outside, school starts, everyone shares germs and suddenly it’s freakin flu season! I can’t wait until it cools a bit and we can open up our house and spend more time outside.

Tony’s pretty sure I’m getting sick too because, get this, he says I’m being all illogically crabby. Me?!! Whatever. Just becuase I called him home from work when Addy only took a 15 minute nap because I was freaking out that I would never properly educate my children based on this disruption alone is no cause for name calling, right? I mean, that’s logical I think.

Addy apparently has to be propped upright to sleep becuase when she lays down she is too stuffy to suck her thumb so tonight’s sleep is going to be wonderful for all parties, I’m sure. I just can’t handle another round of illness here so soon. Ugh. Wah wah wah.

Ok, the police story……sorry it won’t be more exciting! I was in charge of reserving the pavilion for our party, which I did just fine thankyouverymuch. However when the parks folk asked what we would use the pavilion for and I relayed that it would be for a back to school homeschool party/picnic, they never asked some important questions. Like “Will you  have vendors?” or “Will you be promoting, selling, fundraising or exchanging money in any way?” becuase the answer would have been “yes”. So imagine my surprise when I showed up in the morning of the event to learn that the parks people had stopped by to make sure we knew that we could sell nothing. Apparently the big Pampered Chef table was a give-away and alerted them to stop. We made some calls, freaked out, learned it was a city law and there was no way around it despite the fact that we had vendors set up EVERYWHERE and more on the way. Eventually the police came at which point I took my friend M~ and her adorable tiny baby and  just appealed to them with something that sounded like “Please, we are just homeschoolers, we aren’t trouble I swear! No money will exchange hands, just please let us have our little picnic” and that was that. It was probably a bummer for our vendors but at least they got to share their wares and take contact info and orders - just no fulfillment on the spot. And the rest of us still had fun. No arrests this time

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