It's A Purple Kinda Thing: where did the week go?

I just looked to see that it has been a week since I last posted. It was a crazy one though so I guess that would explain it. Last Thursday my niece Kristi came down with her daughters to spend the weekend. I don't get to see the girls very often so it was a lot of fun. Friday Kristi went and got her boys. That is big news because no one has seen them for a year, including Kristi. So my house became a party zone. I made a big ole pot of Gumbo (which didn't turn out right, I am still pissed about that) and lets see, we had, at one time, 17 adults and 18 kids (roughly) here in the house. This is after a freak snow day for which I had my five kids, 2 of Michelles and 2 of Kristi's here allllll day. So by the time the night was over, I was sooo ready for the sister breakfast on Saturday. We got up and went to the first "garage" sale of the season, (yeah!!) and then went over to Deanne's for gift giving. Cindy brought these scrumptous apple dumplings she got off of this website http://www.thepioneerwomancooks.com/ OMG so worth it just for that recipe. And the ladies that were having a meeting in Deanne;s shop had a wonderful apple pizza made with sugar cookie dough and carmel. There is a reason the calories don't count on a sister breakfast. Then we all went up to see some hellaciously expensive condo's, that was a total blast. I still don't get the balcony that you can't stand on in an atrium that has no fresh air. I guess I am just too low class to understand the point of it. ANYWAY, we then took off to the Horseshoe casino buffet. LOVE it! I would like to try a new resturant since we have gone there so many times but I am good with going there too. Great food. Then came the shopping portion of the day. I got a couple of things for easter baskets and just enjoyed being a grown up. I got home around 6:30 -7 some where in there, to find out that not only had Mikey not gotten the kids dinner, he went out and left Chick in charge (with Gage but still that is alot of kids). Jake and Emily came over and helped keep the killing down to a dull roar. We ordered pizza, 6 large. Mike, Kristi, Susan, Gary and Bill came back and by the time that it was all said and done, everyone had eaten, there was 4 pieces left. good gravy. Sunday I was not feeling good at all, when everyone left around noon, I felt so bad but all I wanted was to go to bed. Mike ended up wanting to go to walmart so we did that. Then of course, all night long I was up and miserable. Monday I had to take Blondie to an appointment and I was still dragging. Today is the first day that I feel mostly normal. I say this after I overslept this morning and almost made my kids late for school. Now Mikey has it though so watch out!! We were talking about the weekend, though and he was telling me that the craziness is how he remembers his parents house being on the weekends he was home on leave, everyone would show up at some point to hang out for a while. I love visiting so I was in heaven. Chaos doesn't usually bother me too much so that helps :)

I reread all of the Suzanne Brockmann books I have in the Troubleshooters series so I am so ready for the new ones to come out. I have them all in paperback so its killing me to wait till they are released in that form ( I do not care for hardback) . I also have collected all the material for my current project, I am excited to share it when I get it completed.

Here is my little spelling stud..