While I was gone...

My family was AWESOME!!!!! I was able to go and attend my conference and learn some new and interesting things and reconnect with other birth professionals and friends. Thanks to my best friend T for letting me come stay, and for attending the CAPPA conference with me. And even thought she told me afterward she really only agreed to attend because it meant spending time with me, she really did enjoy it and learned some things also. http://givethehug.blogspot.com/ this was a very interesting session. Wish I'd heard some of these tings 18 years ago... I would have loved to try it!
Thanks to her family especially her husband (who is only home for a short time before he has to go back to the Army (they are living in the house they bought several years ago and it hasn't sold, so they are back in it for a while even though S is actually stationed somewhere else hours away across the state -since S will be deploying for Iraq again soon).

- Bill got sick and felt pretty miserable for several days.
- Sariah grew at least an inch and is now taller than everyone else in the house except for dad.
- Rebekah helped Marissa with her birthday party invitations for this next week. She also cooked and took care of the sicko's and the family while I was gone.
- Amanda got sick and has missed three days of school. But helped dad out on Friday when they were all sick and he had a 1 1/2 hr teleconference.
- Hannah had a sleepover w/ our friend S. and got a friends necklace.
- Marissa had a sleepover and built a fort and played with her friend A.
- Liam - did pretty well and survived just fine without mommy... other than the first sleepless night, however he also had some adventures. He was caught one time sitting with his feet and most of the contents off the counter top, all in the my bathroom sink, lotion and toothpaste squeezed out all over and water running! But wait! That's not all!!!!

Lets just say, Bill is still snaking out the toilet in our bathroom and hasn't managed to get it all yet... He has retrieved a hair brush, feminine products, still in the wrappers, plastic gloves, a ton of toilet paper, and he thought he had it all, but then the toilet got stopped again, and then last night he tried the snake again and caught onto something... he got it stuck and had to almost have a tug of war to get the snake back out... well, when it came out, it had something in it and I looked at it and the lightbulb went off in my head. There was a small little hair brush in my bathroom and that is what must be stuck down my toilet!!!!! Bill had snagged it with the snake and pulled off one of the bristles. We're not sure how much work it is going to take to get it out of there!