Hodgepodge-isms

My lovely husband (no sarcasm) knows how much I’m struggling with the Easter chocolates in the house. Monday night he came home with some skinny cow ice cream bars and rounded up the rest of the Easter candy and said he would get rid of the whole lot. Skinny Cow=awesome. It probably would have been better if he would have done this two days after Easter, because by now all that’s left is a small packet of pastel m&ms, a chocolate bunny and a bunch of marshmallow things that I could easily leave alone. All the chocolate eggs … gone. But I do appreciate the sentiment.

It would also be awesome if he would actually get rid of it all. I'm still staring at it. Excuse me while I go get an ice cream bar so I stay away from the chocolates. I'm pretty sure that eating a whole box of Truffle bars defeats the purpose.

Yes, I know I could do it myself but I just can't bear to.

Also on Monday, I came home to an empty house and felt like doing something, so I went out back and gardened. Seriously, I spent 1.5 hours digging grass out of my main backyard flower bed. Is this a disease, and is it catching? This is the first time in my entire life that I voluntarily did gardening as something that occurred to me and I didn’t do just because I got annoyed at how things looked. I don’t see that flower bed while in my house (like I do the front beds). The backyard is shaded in the evening so it wasn’t overwhelmingly hot, but still. TV? Book? Nope! Let me yank grass out by the roots until my legs shake, and then let me keep going for a little while longer.

Now that I have an empty flower bed, I have a long stretch of emptiness that I feel obligated to fill up with something before remulching. I think I might want another rose, but what do you think? The left is my rose bush, and the right is my gardenia. What would you put between those?

Henry got sick early this week and went to the doctor and he had a bronchial infection. Like bronchitis. They gave us a nebulizer and capsules to give him breathing treatments several times a day. Let me tell you how fun that is. Let me also clue you in that we are ALL sick - Spencer still has a cough and Hubs and I both have head colds, terribly scratchy throats, and chest colds (yep, all together now). Thankfully that has been all it's been (so far) but we've missed all the sicknesses that have made the rounds at all our friends' houses and I'm worried that it's all going to come back to bite me in the ass.

I’m participating in Relay for Life tonight, and I’m so worried that I will not last the whole night. It’s all night! I go to bed at 10pm or thereabouts, sometimes earlier on Friday nights when I’m getting caught up on all the sleep I missed out on throughout the week. And I'm still sick!

I finished all the Truffle bars. What?? They were good for my throat!