it's now midnight and for some reason i can't sleep so here i am. just got done reading blogs. funny stories trace. is this the same damian that also likes to wear meat on his face? :) you know how sometimes you know something, but have a hard time saying it to others, but then you hear something or read something and you think, "yes! that's what i wanted to say!" that's how justin's quote on mary's blog was tonight. "i praise the lord in my strength and worship him in my weakness." very cool. i'm realizing that's how my parenting classes are. i read all this awesome wisdom and when i go to try and share it with these girls it comes out all crazy and choppy. so i think i'm just going to have to plagaerize (sp?) and memorize lines from the book. i was just reading a parenting book if anyone was wondering where the tangent came from

this weekend was a great time with the family until the end. we went up to columbus for the ohio st vs michagin game and also thanksgiving with my fam. the game was very nice of course with the victory over mich and the meal was incredible as ever. so saturday night we are sitting around playing phase 10 and laughing a lot as usual when about midnight my brother starts complaining about his stomach hurting and we make fun of him for eating too much cheese dip. and then about an hour later he's still complaining and next thing we know he's in the bathroom throwing up. oh poor guy we think...he must have eaten way too much. so the next day my parents had some errands to run and when they get back my mom looks awful and says she's not feeling good and next thing we know she's throwing up. 'ut oh' we all think. but the rest of us seem to feel fine so we don't think much of it. so ryan and i pack up and are heading back to lexingon sunday night when i start to get a mild stomach ache. i figured i was just freaking myself out so i made ryan distract me, but an hour later there i was on the side of the freeway and you can only guess what i was doing. so we stayed in cincinnati that night and after getting up a couple of times during the night i felt better but fluish the next day. i called my family and found out that my sister and brother's fiance had woken up in the middle of the night with the same thing. it's still a mystery because we can't figure out if it was the stomach flu or food poisoning. and neither ryan nor my dad got anything either. it was kind of surreal like a movie. we were all dropping like flies! :) but today i woke up feeling perfectly fine. so that's good at least. plus i told ryan i was the lucky one, because i got to binge and purge guilt free! :)

i hope u did ok thru that trace. i tried to make it as G-rated as possible. tomorrow i am getting a babysitter for hannah and i am taking the girls at the nile out for lunch and then we are going to see finding neverland. that should be a fun time! i'm working there all week which is fun for me, but hannah hates it there so this will be a good break for both of us.

have a happy thanksgiving everyone and beware of the greenbean casserole!