Mark took the kids just now to take some brownies to some friends. I am supposed to be making dinner while they are gone. But here I am, blogging instead!
Don't tell him!

I have a cold too. It is getting worse everyday. Today I feel totally wiped out and drained of any energy that I may have had. I could pass for Rudolph too, my nose is so bright red from all the blowing.

Yesterday I had some good news though. My mom and dad are coming up to our house for Thanksgiving!!!!!!!! YEAH!!! We decided a long time ago that we were not going to make it to AZ for any of the Holidays until after the baby comes. So to have my mom and dad come up here is GREAT news for us!

Ok, I better get back to dinner. As long as it's ready when the boys get home it's all good right?!

Have a great evening.

***UPDATE: after finishing this post I put a pan with some oil on the stove and turned it on to heat up a, then I went to the bathroom. Forgetting that I had oil warming on the stove I started reading the new magazine that I had just put in the bathroom. oops.
Pretty soon I could smell the smoke, then the smoke alarm.
I ran out, opened the doors and windows and turned on a fan in an attempt to get the smoke out.
Little did I know that the alarm system that was installed by the previous owners was still hooked up to alert the fire dept when the fire alarm goes off. I knew that alarm was going off because it was very loudly saying "FIRE ALARM FRONT DOOR, FIRE ALARM FRONT DOOR ,FIRE ALARM FRONT DOOR!" but I had no idea how to turn it off.
Pretty soon the alarm stopped so I left the doors open and the fan blowing and returned to fixing dinner. But then I hear a car drive up and walk to the open garage to see who it is.
Any guesses???

It's the police and a fireman! Oh boy did I feel dumb. I told him it was just the smoke alarm and that all was ok. He wanted to know why the alarm was going off in the first place and then said, "were you fixing dinner?" like, we get this all the time; women fixing dinner and smoking out the house.
I apologized and explained that I didn't even know the alarm called them and that I would learn how to turn if off before it happens again. He says, "well, you need to take care of that soon because if it keeps happening we will have to issue you a citation." Then he asks me my name and says are you related to Cory Davis? Yeah, Marks cousin who is a county deputy. I reluctantly say yes we are related because I know that he will tell Cory then Cory can tease Mark! Great!
Anyway..... the officer and fireman leave and I get back to dinner again.
Mark and the boys arrive home about 10 minutes later and want to know if I burned the dinner because the house stinks and is about 40 degrees from having the doors open! After explaining what happened and Mark laughing at me, his phone rings. It was his friend Jason who is a firefighter and was on his way in the fire truck to our house when the police officer said it was a false alarm!! Great! The whole town is gonna know. Not to unlike living in St. Johns I guess.


Moral of the story- don't blog or use the bathroom while you are supposed to be cooking dinner!