Ruin Me, Indeed

Ironically, last week I posted about a song that really touched us, Ruin Me. And lo and behold, immediately after our week's plans were shot to...um, well, shot. First of all, Monday ROCKED...I got in a full 8 hours for GPISD, from home, with Noble. It was AMAZING! And then Kayci got home from school...she went straight to bed for 2 hours, then woke up with a fever. We called the soccer coach and made appropriate apologies. It was a very quiet evening at home until bedtime--an hour after we went to sleep, Kayci came and got me and then promptly threw up (but, being my daughter, it was all very organized, in the toilet, etc. Yea!). I went back to her bed with her and she had a hard time going back to sleep. I think she thought she'd been asleep for a lot longer than she had, because she wanted to get up. I told her, when Daddy gets up and stays up, we'll get up. Well, at 2 AM, Daddy and Noble got up and Daddy wandered in to check on us. That was all she wrote--she bugged me for the next 30 minutes until I gave in and we moved out to the couch. She watched a movie and I tried to sleep, and we finally REALLY went to sleep right before Daddy left for the gym. Tuesday was a quiet day at home, with both kids feeling puny. Luckily, it was truly a 24 hour virus and we were able to go to Houston on Wednesday so I could go to the hospital and sit with Grandpa. He had a really rough week, but was feeling well enough on Friday that the Pharaons were able to head home for Halloween.

We LOVE Halloween here in Brenham! We sat on the front porch and had dinner, then walked around the neighborhood and trick-or-treated. Just like when we were kids! It gives Kayci a chance to experience something that's pretty rare, and Mommy & Daddy a chance to visit with neighbors. It was just awesome! Noble ended up sleeping...he was one tired Jedi after 3 days in a row at KinderCare (he got better each day--I don't think he cried at all on Friday!). We went back home and sat on the front porch until we ran out of candy and glow-bracelets. A funny thing about trick-or-treaters on our busy street: not one walked up, cars just pull up and stop and kids get out, come up the walk and then go get back in the car. At one point there were 4 cars in front of our house--it was just funny, something our Houston friends probably can't even imagine. :)

Saturday it was back to the hospital for Mommy, while Daddy & the kids got to take a long-anticipated trip to the San Jacinto Monument. We spent some time that afternoon shopping, then had a late dinner with Grandma before we hit the road for home. It was a long day, but a great day--Grandpa has been improving steadily since Thursday night, and we hope he'll go home in the next couple of days. It's so good to see him eating again (although he'd rather have a Whataburger than broth, but what can you do?).

Today we had hoped to enjoy our extra hour of sleep, but we ended up being wide awake at 4:30 AM. Daddy & I caught up on Grey's Anatomy and the Office before Kayci woke up, then we had plenty of time to hang out before church. Jhido and Adam came up for lunch, and we had a great meal outdoors at the Airport. There were so many planes today, and it seems that those who didn't fly in rode motorcycles--there were a ton of motorcycles. It was a gorgeous day today!