last night we did indeed go out for spicy Chinese food. Cleared out our sinuses it did. :)
We had hopes Stevie would try some, since we took his best friend with us. He did take a bite, but did not like it. :(
Oh, well. :(
Back to work tonight. Yuck. :(

Another sunny and beautiful day. :)
Getting a lot of housework done, in addition to getting all of the Middle School singlets and warmups washed. Dan is the only middle school coach now, so all of the unifrom washing duties (very imporatant in wrestling so as to help prevent skin diseases) has fallen to us. It's a long story as to why he is now the only official coach for around 50 6-8 graders, and I won't get into it today...
Will be taking the dog out for a long, blissful walk soon!
We are hoping to go out for spicy Chinese food tonight to clear all of the nasty stuff out of our heads...
Also have to have a family meeting about Bill's school trip to France, Steven's school camping trip, and our big trip to New Mexico and hopefully Colorado in June. I had asked for a week after New Mexico, thinking that we would be picking up Dad and bringing him home with us. Now that that is impossible, we would like to go to the mountains in Colorado instead. (bliss...)

Beautiful day outside. It's sunny and up in the forties. The snow is melting rapidly. I am wearing a t-shirt and shorts today.
Poor Bill missed his third day of school today with the bad cold I shared with everyone. I spent most of the day running errands.
One good errand I ran was buying a huge amount of perrenial roots and bulbs to plant as soon as the ground thaws out enough. My friends sent a huge basket of plants to my father's funeral, and also gave me some money to plant some flowers at my home. :)
So I bought a huge number of lilly of the valley, which my father had loved, to plant in the shade. Also a rainbow of day lillies, and some flowering vines that look pretty in the pictures. :)
I think I would like to buy two cherry trees as well. Dad loved his cherry trees in when he lived in Michigan, and they are also the favorite fruit of both of my sons...

Poor Bill now has the bad cold, missed school today...at least wrestling is over, he had the season from hell, but still somehow ended up with a winning record...so he doesn't have to try to practice/wrestle while sick again... :(
One day more of work, and I can be off. I am going to make myself do housework, no matter how much I am coughing this weekend.
Finished the Pressfield book, it was most excellant!

Bit tired today. Wish I could could shake this cold...instead I gave it to poor Dan on his birthday...reading a great historical novel by Pressfield called Gate of Fire, about the ancient Spartans and how they came to battle the Persians in a climactic battle at Thermopylae...possibly the best historical novel I have ever read. It is for people who are interested in the sncient Greeks, in explorations of courage and honor, in the birth of the Western world...

Well, our plans, as usual, changed today. We did get out to lunch, at Chili's, which we enjoyed. Dan looked like he was coming down with a bit of a cold.

When he finally got home tonight, he was feeling pretty bad...I fixed a nice, big dinner, we had cake and ice cream, and he is now resting. Poor man felt much too bad to go out tonight. :(

I know its not his fault, at least it isn't tonight, but tis strange how something comes up at least nine out of ten times he and I are suppose dto get some time together...much too often to be a coincidence, especially when we so rarely make plans...

Today is Dan's birthday. He is off at work, but if his work allows today we will meet for lunch. I have the night free from work, and we hope to eat dinner with the children, then go listen to some live jazz in Ann Arbor, if his work allows. We will be getting snow tonight, so he might have to go out and do snow removal...