Last Friday, I started coming down with a cold. Both Saturday and Sunday I had a lot of things planned, but only did the things I could not put off. Most of Sunday was spent lying on the couch and dozing off and on. On Monday, I was feeling much better (and the kids seemed like they were getting better, too) so we went to our "back to school" picnic. It was a nice day, and we all enjoyed getting out.

Tuesday, I realized I was not over being sick and was feeling even worse than I had over the weekend. I didn't start feeling better until Thursday. We did manage to get most of our school work done, in spite of being ill.

Today, I got up and spent a few hours getting the house in order, and then after lunch we headed to the library for the "American Girl" Club. The girls absolutely love this. Every month they focus on a different doll character and make crafts and have snacks that are related to the time period that the doll represents. We checked out our usual stack of tons of books (which always seems to generate strange looks from the librarian, but I'm not sure if it's real or just paranoia). Then we did our grocery shopping again.

I gave dd10 homework for the first time ever this weekend. She was working on some long multiplication problems and after several hours on Friday, I assigned them as homework over the weekend. She finished them up tonight after requiring some motivation from Dad. Once that was out of the way, she did really great with them.

I'm looking forward to going to church tomorrow. Our friends are having their baby dedicated, so it should be a very special service. I was disappointed that I missed several baptisms last week. I am glad we are all well enough to go tomorrow.

Anyway, for some reason when I was sick I could barely stand being at the computer. Hence, the long blogging absence. Better now!