Born 'n Bred Country Girl

Over this past week, my two kids (almost 3 and 11 months) have been sick with the flu. Normally this means lots and lots of work but surprisingly this time around our oldest has been able to tell us when he is going to be sick and has actually been able to get 'it' into the bowl. So that leaves us with one child to clean up after-not bad!

So besides the occasional episode, my husband and I have found ourselves with some free time. Our oldest wants to watch movies (so we oblige) and the youngest wants to sleep (so we oblige). So now what? We found ourselves wandering our small home with nothing to do. This doesn't happen very often that WE get to do something that WE want to do and for ourselves. Considering that the bug was still alive and well we couldn't make it out of the house and risk contaminating some poor person at Tim Hortons (oh how a nice steamed chocolate mocha would taste right now). So what did we do? We cooked ourselves and nice turkey dinner praying that we too wouldn't get sick and have to bring up all we had over ate on. We actually made it outside for a mini walk to the local playground to get some fresh air (more for our sons sake- we wanted Tim Hortons). We created little projects by scouring the walls for imperfections that we could patch.....so sad I know. Really pathetic.

Finally, yesterday after three days of restless boredom my husband and I settled in downstairs while the kids slept and did nothing but sit beside one another, each on our respective computers and surfed. What peace we found together for the FOUR hours the kids slept. For four peaceful hours we were without kids (figuratively speaking). I wish I could say we were a little more creative. But for once in a very long time we both were in our element. Remembering what it was like to be without responsibility and be free to squander our time as we please.

This is my husband playing call of duty 4. Yah he's a little intense and shall we say addicted to the game. His surfing lasted about all of ten minutes before he immersed himself in the gaming world.

Oh the good 'ol days.