Crazy busy!

Sorry, I've been neglecting my blog again. We've had a busy couple of weeks between homeschooling, cub scouts, sick kiddies, and everything else that seems to want to happen at the same time.

I'm happy to say we finally have our first pack meeting behind us. I'm the den leader and Ian is the Cub Master. We had to postpone it 1 week because everything kept falling apart. First off, I couldn't get the boys' Bobcat badges. The scout store was completely out and they were on back order. :o( They were also out of everything else I needed. I was trying to make a little something for the boys as a reward for a project they'd been working on and it kept going wrong. I guess I was making it harder than it had to be. Then, I tried making these really cute ghost cookies(it was right before Halloween) with Nutter Butter cookies and those didn't turn out either. I finally let myself off the hook since nothing was working out. We had the meeting the following week and it went pretty well.

The weekend of Lauren's pageant Todd was sick with a virus. He had diarrhea(sorry, TMI!) for 3 days, then a low grade fever, then broke out with a rash that lasted for over a week. It's finally just now starting to clear up. Thankfully no one else has been really sick. A couple have had the upset stomach part but, not for more than a day and no fevers or rashes.

We took the kids to the Veteran's Day parade yesterday. It was nice to get out and do something as a family. We had one of Todd's friends with us, too. After the parade we were standing next to our car talking to my dad and suddenly a piece of chocolate came flying out of nowhere and pinged Matt right on the top of his head. I looked around thinking where the heck did that come from. It was the missionaries! The one(Elder Hammer) was aiming for Ian, but he took out Matt instead. Poor kid! Man did he cry. Elder Hammer felt so bad. All we could do was laugh. Isn't that awful? Matt finally settled down. Paw Paw gave all the grandkids(and the missionaries) $1 to go get ice cream at McDonald's. Word of advice----never go to McD's after a parade. I think everyone who went to the parade went to McD's afterwards. It was a madhouse!

Back to scouts again tonight. We had a new one join us which brings our group up to 5 total. I need Calgon, chocolate, and a diet DP. I'm soooooo glad it's only once a week. They're a good group of boys but they have way too much energy for that time of day. ;o)