Not for the faint of heart

So.


Its been a long couple of days. A long, gross, pukey mess couple of days. Blech.

Since Friday night, my whole little Hocker family of four has been completely consumed with the flu. There is just no denying it. My laundry room is full of foul laundry to wash, we've gone through who knows how many bottles of Gatorade and Pedialyte, and our DVD player has put in overtime in the amount of movies we've watched these past couple of days. It just hasn't been fun.

Dave came home from his track meet Friday night and seemed fine. He went out to Wendy's with the track kids after the meet, and all was well. Fast forward to later that night where the, you know, begins. We chalk it up to food poisoning and move on. I take the kids to Mimi's house to let him get some rest. Enter Sunday evening, when Dave is seeming to be on the upswing. James takes bath because his tummy hurts (which makes sense to me- he ate two pieces of pizza at dinner!) to help. After I hear him cough (or choke? It was a very weird sound..) I go to the bathroom to see that he has tossed the cookies. A couple hours after that, it was my turn! Yay! And in the morning (after being up all night, you know...) we find that Clara indeed did get sick too, but didn't let us know. It was dried everywhere in her crib. She even handed Dave a grape from her dinner when he came in to get her. So nice of her, right?

So let's recap:
Number of times someone, you know...: 20+
Number of times someone, you know....in the toliet, or right place to throwup: Let's say 12ish
Number of loads of laundry we've done: Countless
Amount of time spent watching movies: Probably three days straight
Days taken off work: Two

Hopefully, we've reached the end. No one has done anything for almost twelve hours, so that has to be a good sign. We're praying we get done with this soon!

Aren't you all glad you stopped by to read my bloggity blog today?

P.S. Shout out to Mimi and Corie who provided us with things to survive- laundry soap, movies, coloring books, Pedialtye, Sprite, etc.. We are so grateful. And even more grateful that we didn't get you sick!

Dave, Karly, and Harry: I love you.

Today is a very important day for two reasons. First, it is my brother and sister's wedding anniversary! Six years ago today this happened:

Lauren, Karly, and Me

Karly's sister Lauren and myself.



He looks so little here! I guess I do too....



So it's pretty special that today it's been six years for them. Congrats Dave and Karly! I do love you both so.

The second important thing that happened was I got this in the mail today:

De de deee! I didn't even order it! I went out to get the mail with the kids, per usual, and there was an Amazon package in the box. If you read my sister's blog at all, you know that she loves, loves Amazon. I was so surprised to open the box and see those three looking lovely people back at me! D & K got me this just because the love me. They're pretty awesome, right? Too bad the only thing that I got them for their anniversary was a phone call. They are definitely the better gift givers, to be sure.

My Entertainment Weekly

I love getting my Entertainment Weekly. It truly is a high point on my Fridays (or Saturdays, which by then, I am a little peeved that it hasn't come on Friday. But that's beside the point). Dave gets about forty-eleven sports magazines, and this is the one magazine that I get, so it is a pretty big deal. (I really want to know, how can there be that much to write about sports? On a weekly basis? In so many different magazines?) So, I would like to post my own version of EW, and list some things of the entertaining variety that I am anticipating.

Bossypants.

There is something about Tina Fey that I just love. This past year I have really enjoying getting into 30 Rock. I can't believe I haven't watched the show until now! (Though I did watch some episodes last year) Every week, I love her. Therefore, I can't wait to read her book. I've been hinting to a certain someone that I am married to that I really have been looking forward to this book. Hopefully, that someone gets the hint. We'll see.

Harry Potter 7 Part One.

If you know me, you know I love Harry Potter. Love Harry Potter. I want to enroll into Hogwarts. Unfortunately, since this is a work of fiction, I am unable to do so. I think this might be the first DVD that I buy when it first comes out. I want it that bad. (Wait- I did buy season three of The Office when it first came out, but that's all. I promise). I won't be getting it on Blu-Ray as this picture implies. We're not that fancy over here. And if you can guess where I am going with this, the next thing I am most looking forward to is....

Harry Potter 7 Part Two

Seriously, don't you just get chills looking at that movie poster? I mean, I think that it says everything that needs to be said. "It All Ends." I. Can't. Wait. And even better news, reading on my trusty ew.com, I've come to find out that they had a documentarian film behind the scences when they were shooting the final films, and plan on possibly releasing that documentary. Let's just say, I hope they do.

Water for Elephants

This is the next book we are supposed to read for my book club. I've had it patiently waiting on my nightstand for a long, long time. My MIL just raved about it, and I can't wait to get into it. I know it is now being made into a movie with R. Pat., but to be honest, I was excited to read it before all that Hollywood hoopla. I just have to finish LotM before I can start it (and that book just will not end!).

Adele.

I'll be honest, I don't really know any of her songs. I don't know any of the songs off her first CD, and I haven't heard any off this CD. Yet everywhere I look, people seem to love and rave about her. So I am interested in just checking her out.

Something Borrowed.

My main reasons for this are A. I like two of the four actors/actresses in the movie and B. It seems like it has been a long time since a good rom com has come out. Since this one is based on a book (that I started to read, but don't remember why I didn't finish it), let's cross our fingers and hope it's good.

The Office.

I'm not excited to see Steve Carell leave. I am excited, however, to see how they handle his departure and who replaces him. I personally can't imagine Scantron without him, but the show must go on. Does anybody else think they should have ended the series with him leaving the show? I mean, the show has been hit or miss these last couple of years, and to continue on without him, I think that we might land more on the 'miss' side of things. Oh well. We shall see!

So, what's on your Entertainment Weekly? What are you looking forward to?



Today...

- I woke up to the sound of rain through my open window. Both the rain and the open window are two very good things.

- I had a sad daughter all day, who needed to be in my arms, all day. Culprits of such sadness could be due to A. Sickness B. Teething. I am going with B., since she was feverish, had a runny nose, and when she was crying in her high chair at lunch, she kept pointing at her mouth. And when I say all day, I mean all day. Even just a quick bathroom break  for myself was too long for her to be out of my arms. Poor widdy. I did love cuddling with her, though.

- I had a daughter who took a three hour nap and a son who took a two hour nap. I know, I am spoiled.

- I did a lot during said lengthy naps. I....worked out, cleaned two bathrooms, got rid of all the old, gross leftovers in my fridge, cleaned up from lunch, dusted the cobwebs from the ceilings and walls, got grossed out by how much cobwebs their actually were to dust in my house, considered sending out an apology to all peoples who have been in my house for the last 2.5 years, since I was apparently having you for a visit in a spiderwebd, stretched, and lastly, wondered why is it that when I decide that I am going to take a nap while the kids do, they end up taking one of those annoyingly short thirty minute naps, but when I decide to actually stay up and do some things around the house, they sleep forever? I'd rather only clean for thirty minutes and sleep for two hours. Oh well. 

- I almost didn't work out today during naptime because I was actually having a good hair day and didn't want to put my hairin a ponytail. How lame is that? I wasn't even going out or anything. No one was going to see me. Why did I care about saving my good hair day?

- James fell and skinned his knee. Nothing that a Woody bandaid can't fix.

- We played outside! Though it was a bit windy, wasn't it just lovely today?

- I again started to read Last of the Mohicans, and after three pages, stopped. This book is going to be the death of me.

Now....

- I am in bed while typing a blog with my hubby sleeping next to me. I have two sleeping kiddos in their beds. I have my window open with a cool breeze coming in my room. I hear all the lovely night sounds as they fill up the night, and I think, Life is good.

My Volvo

My cousin sent me this video the other day, and as a former Volvo stationwagon owner, it totally made my day. You see, my parents, back in the day, had this blue Volvo stationwagon and when they got a new car, they gave the Volvs to my grandparents. I remember my Grandma driving it all of my life. When she got older and couldn't drive anymore, it was given to us cousins to use as our car. In high school and college, we each would get a turn with it every other week or so, which worked out pretty nicely between the three of us. It was a pretty sweet ride. I did have some Volvo pride, because you have to admit, though it is a ugly car, it has something that is oddly cool and attractive about it. In college, I had it one week, and it wouldn't start. Sad day. Mind you, it was about twenty years old, but still. I still have the memory of it being towed away out of the Bowles apartment complex parking lot. Sigh. There were a lot of good memories in that car.

The video is is explicit, so if stuff like that bugs you, I wouldn't watch it. Or as my cousin said, "Don't watch it when the kids are around." I understand that most of you probably haven't owned a beauty like this, so the video might not warm your heart as much as mine, but it is still worth your time. I promise you'll be a better person for it.