No excuses

I guess I have just been lazy.  Well, maybe ONE excuse or two.  Easter week/weekend had me pretty busy, and Zach's book project for school was a higher priority since he wanted to get it 'published'.  And I haven't been feeling very inspired.  Le sigh.  BUT...Easter was fun, his book is done and now I'm sick so it's the perfect time to post, right?  Zach actually got sick the very first day of his spring break, he started out with a fever which progressed to sore throat, congestion, snotty nose, etc...something new every day.  For 2 weeks plus.  Owen is snotty and coughing and now I have laryngitis, mild fever, super blah-ness, etc.  Fun fun.

I did take pics, just not every day, and I had full intentions of posting updates.  But you know what they say about the road to Hell, right?  So I tossed those intentions out the window.

I do have one cute story to tell...the day after Easter I took a day 'off'.  Didn't change out of pajamas, told dh I was taking a day off and didn't do ANYTHING productive.  I caught up on the prior week's tv shows, played some Wii, spent some time in bed reading...ahhhh.  When Zach came home from school and saw me curled up in bed with a book, he was worried I might be sick.  I assure him I wasn't, but he insisted on handing me his little notepad and a pencil with instructions to write down anything I might need and he'd get it for me.  So just for fun, I made an entry.   Nectar.

"What the ....?  How do I get NECTAR?"  He pondered on it a bit and while he was trying to figure out what to do, I wrote down another pressing need.  Taipan anti-venin.  Yeah, google it.

He brought me some juice for the nectar.  Not bad.  He glanced at the paper.  "TAIPAN ANTI-VENIN?  How ...What....HUH?"  I gave him free reign of my spice cabinet, a bit regrettably I might add.  It's a mess now.  But he concocted something that would probably kill the snake, even if it didn't cure the bite.

Number 3...four drops of dragon blood.  He didn't even question me this time.  He promptly came back and deposited 4 strawberries in my lap.  "The blood is frozen."  Wow, Nicely done!  I was impressed.

Then fourth on the list I had requested two lizard toenails.  Not too much time passed by before he came back in the room, hands behind his back.  "It was a very large lizard" he explained, and pulled out two tan colored oval cookies.  Btw, if you have never eaten Biscoff cookies, you are missing out.  I had them a few times on flights and they are heavenly little crumbly brown sugar and gingery tasting morsels.  Divine.  I even googled them after a flight once, but could only find them sold in bulk.  But I recently found them in Publix, so I had to indulge myself.  Never did I consider they might actually be giant lizard toenails.

The kid is way smarter and more creative than I could ever hope to be.  Love you most, Zach!
Here are some pics.  Not gonna bother with dates and such, just have fun with 'em.