I think this is going to turn out to be a crazy week. Thursday I was going to go into work. My aunt and uncles are coming into town Thursday. I have choir practice Saturday morning. Our choir special is Sunday morning and Scott leaves for Turkey Monday at 2:15. I’m guessing between all we are going to do with the family and what I have to do for work and church this week and weekend, it will be quite busy.
Emma sick…again..
So Emma broke out in a fever on Saturday. She kept it through Sunday. I figured she was getting whatever Lexi had last week. But then last evening she broke out in some rash. It looked like she was sunburnt on her torso. At 7:30 I ran her over to the urgent care center and turns out she probably has strep throat and scarlet fever. Nice. So we got her started on antibiotics and she should no longer be contagious after tonight and all better before the week’s end.
Magazine is here!
It’s for real! The magazine comes out this weekend and it’s already online! I think it looks pretty good although I have nitpicky things to say about the pictures. I think overall Melissa does a great job of making the magazine look clean, streamline and hip. I’m thinking about taking those pages out and having them framed. Have no idea where I’d put them but I think they’d look good in a black frame matted in glass (you know where there’s just glass where the matting goes).
People from work want signed copies which is really funny to me. My manager is out of town next week and he wants me to leave a signed copy on his desk. I don’t think I’ll have a “signature” signature except that I’m planning to sign it like I do my checks lol. I thought about putting the Proverbs 31:30 reference on it but then I’m not sure. And then I thought of XOXOXO but then is that really appropriate for my manager? I really don’t want to make a big deal about it…it is only a free magazine that my best friend from 3rd grade took pictures of me in her living room for free. LOL.
Randomness
Scott’s off doing a side job today. Hoping to make some extra spending money for the Turkey trip. Apparently getting jewelry and rugs over there is a good thing.
Speaking of the Turkey trip, his trip is less than 2 weeks away. Sort of surreal. I am really excited for him. I can’t wait to hear what happens. He is going with a group he really gets along with and I just think they will be great together.
I am pretty tired today. I feel like I just need a nap. I’ve been going to bed late and having to get up with the girls through the night. And I can tell I had no nap on Sunday.
I think Scott might stay home with the girls and let me go to youth camp by myself in June. We just found out David Nasser is going to be the speaker again which is really cool. I’m getting really excited…one week with no husband or kids while they are all safely tucked away at home together. Woot!
kids STILL sick
So last night Lexi about coughed up her lungs and I had to get up and give her a breathing treatment at some point in the middle of the night. Scott was up with her around 6am to hold her in the recliner so she’d quit coughing. Emma started the coughing and sneezing this morning and Lexi’s one eye looks suspicious. Great, they are trading illnesses. I find myself quite tired this morning.
Paci gone.
Lexi made it through the night (sick) without a paci last night and only asked for it twice today..once when she got up and now when it’s nap time. She’s still whining in her room not wanting to take a nap but knowing she slept the night without paci, I’m not giving in. I really think paci is gone for good. Yipee!!
Spring is here!
I’m so proud of myself for cutting a few flowers in the yard and making a little bouquet. I have the vase on my desk and it makes me smile inside every time I see it.
Chris!
I can not say enough good stuff about Chris Daughtry’s free concert in Greensboro Friday night. C and I ended up going by ourselves. It took an hour longer than the normal 1 hr 45 min. ride which did make for quite a long unplanned road trip but fun nevertheless. I have never been to Greensboro and made it simply by Google maps which I was quite proud of. Even found a parking space on the side of a downtown street where someone was pulling out of even though all of the parking decks had Lot Full signs on them. There were droves of people walking towards their Main Street and there was no doubt we were in the right place.
Once we got down there, we stood in line forever at Papa John’s even after they ran out of pizzas and were waiting for another delivery of personal pizzas. The downtown was obviously not expecting the huge turnout and the vendors were few and far between. I have to say Charlotte does a much better job of feeding the crowds. Anyway, with pizza and drinks in hand, we made our way to the stage to put our stake in the crowd and didn’t plan to leave. We scooted up as we could, but I’m telling you soon enough we were packed like sardines. I couldn’t even move without my camera hitting against someone. People were standing on nearby roofs and hanging out restaurant and business windows. We were pretty far back but I could see the stage and Dad’s super-zoom lens got decent pictures. The sound was great though, no problems hearing.
C got faint though before Chris came on and had to get out of the crowd. The weather was a warm 75 and in a tight crowd, it felt more like 90. I stayed put though and she called to let me know she was ok, she could still hear fine and was just going to watch the big (huge) screen. 
I had stood in my spot for about 2 hours by the time Chris came on stage. I was stuck in the middle and couldn’t tell how many but I knew from the traffic trying to go through and the sound, it was a lot. They announced that although they had expected 7-8,000, the estimate was 23,000 people were in attendance. Yikes. (I’m not sure if you can see it but I was standing to the rigth of the light pole that is to the right of the white tent).
Chris sang almost every song on his CD, 2 covers and then sang Home like 3 times. He sang them beautifully and it sounded exactly like the CD, which I love because some people have completely different recording voices. He came back twice to sing more because guess why?? He is using the footage from the concert for his next video for Home. Woot! I am so excited. The crowd was definitely pumped. And I was in heaven! It was so great. He looked great, coming out in a black tank, looking as if he’d been working out quite a bit. He had a beard, shaved from his chin down. And lots of eye makeup, I presume for the video shoot. Maybe he does that for all the concerts, probably but who knows.
C and I met up after he finally stopped after 2 encores (the second time asking our permission to sing again to get more shots for the video) and I bought two concert t-shirts. One short-sleeve and one long-sleeve with a hood. We then tried to get a glimpse of him going to his bus but the event staff shooed away anyone without backstage passes.
I proudly made my way out of downtown and back to 85. It only took us about 1.5 hr to get back home although I didn’t actually get home until about 1:30am. I was so excited I wasn’t tired at all though.