Wait.... Not even close.
Molly had some weird nausea thing that involved us:
1. having strong desire to get bagels.
2. Finally getting packed up in the car to get said bagels from Bagel Grove.
3. Molly vomited in the car on Paris Road... about half mile from our house.
4. Us stopping in to Mimi's house to clean up and reassess.
5. Deciding, yes, we shall try again to get bagels, because clearly that vomiting thing was a fluke.
6. Driving back home, probably 1/3 mile away, and changing pants.
7. Molly vomited in the car on Paris Road AGAIN.
8. Pulling over on a side street and reassessing.
9. And yes, it was at THIS point, that I realized..... forget the effing bagels. I would say steps 1-9 took probably.. about an hour and a half to complete.
So, we came back home. We cleaned everything up. And by we, I of course mean I. We got a nice little garbage can with a nice Target bag that had no holes and we embraced our new friend all day.
Molly was fine all afternoon and all evening, so I am still not convinced it was a true stomach bug. We did play outside for a while at least, so we did enjoy the super nice day. And, I was at home, with all 3 kids, so the day was rather wonderful for that reason alone.
Moving on.
Nothing too exciting has happened, but considering this is my blog, I shall tell my tales.
Halloween was an amazing day! I spent the morning with my daycare kids and the afternoon with Molly at her school. It was the first time that I spent Halloween during the day with my kids, attending their parties and school festivities, and it was well worth it! I was there on that special day for them. Daycare's event was really cute, hectic but really cute, and Molly's school knows how to do Halloween and make it special. Molly's school had a parade in front of the school, and the weather was very agreeable, unlike some years. Cale came too, and I stayed at Molly's school before and after the parade to help get the kids ready and then to help out with the party. I am so thrilled and honored to be able to have the role as Room Mother in my daughter's kindergarten class, so happy that I had the opportunity to help her class and for Molly and I to experience this event together and for her to see me at her school. I really had a blast that day. In the evening, Cale and I took turns taking the girls trick or treating in our neighborhood, and it was a pretty relaxed night. I thought we'd get more trick or treaters than we did, probably was the same amount as we used to get in our old neighborhood. The leftover candy went to school with me to help bribe my students :)
I'll have to upload pictures another time, but you can visualize- Molly was SpongeBob, Emily was Tinkerbell, and Andrew was a bumblebee. And I was also a bumblebee. I was able to squeeze lunch in with Cale at Five Guys and I was planning on wearing my costume, but he caught me in the car before I went in and was like "NO." What a buzzzzzzzzkill.
This past weekend, we spent the overnight in Syracuse, just to get away. I had been toying with the idea of going to NYC for a day with just Molly, and even considered going for a quick overnight and day with the whole family (with the main goal of being able to visit with my BFF, Alison), but ultimately decided that it was just a bit too much to go with everyone right now, and I couldn't stand being away from Andrew for that long, so we decided last minute to at least have the feeling of getting away by spending the night at the Embassy Suites in Syracuse. So, we packed our bathing suits, packed up in the car, and had a really great time! We left later than we wanted, of course, but the girls and daddy got some swim time in Saturday night, then I went in with them on Sunday morning. We had breakfast at the hotel (which was fairly terrible... they had a really nice spread and it all looked pretty decent, but the quality was not there... I guess it was free, so that's about what it was worth), then after swimming and drying off and all that, spent a few hours at Destiny. After being disappointed we couldn't make NYC happened, it was a really great alternative and we had a ton of fun! I would definitely do this again.
On a random note, I made pesto for this first time tonight. I followed the advice from here regarding using a blender (basically because i googled making pesto using a blender because my food processor is not an option currently) and this recipe from Food Network. It was very easy, good, but not great. I would make it again, but I think it needed something. To explain better: Cale ate it with no protest, but agreed it needed something to give it more flavor. So if you have any suggestions, let me know! I really have no idea what I'm doing in the kitchen, improvising usually makes me nervous. I might have just used broil for the first time in my life last week.... I did not know what broil was (some different version of boiling? Can't be... it's in the oven.... best stay away from that concept).... So... basically I'm thankful the internet exists for my lack of knowledge. I am slowly improving :)
Well, I think about my blog all the time, and think "oh I'm going to add this and that" and then I sit down to do it, and I forget everything I was going to write about. I can tell you that this month has some nice stuff that I'm looking forward to, and is a fair amount of busy. Two family Thanksgivings, a hockey game, preparing for Christmas, and lots of little goodies of events. Basically, November is Yesvember. I hope to post again soon, and include pictures :)
