Like sands through the hourglass....

...these are the illnesses of our lives. The diarrhea bug is visiting again (SJ & JM), which made us cancel our trip to se the inlaws AGAIN. (Different bug, but same result as Thanksgiving.) While I'm not especially broken up about it, I am bummed -- the boys, however, are crushed. Poor JM wrote a story about seeing Grandma & Grandpa, and drew pictures of the visit and everything. Now, the next time we'll be able to make the trek will be in mid-February....God forbid they make the trek up here (haven't in a couple years, FIL "can't make the drive" anymore -- i.e, WON'T make the drive). I guess you can do that when you start getting old and crotchety....so help me, if JN turns into his old man, I am getting the hell outta here.

A quick key, since we're all new here and everything.....
JN -- my DH
SJ -- my 10-year-old son
JM -- my 7-year-old son
JA -- my 4-year-old son
Too many J's, I know -- TOO DAMN BAD!!! I hear enough grief about that from my family, I don't wanna hear shit about it here. It is what it is -- deal with it. Learn the initials, love the initials, be the initials....you'll cope with it all, come out on the other side intact and be just fine.

All this not-going-to-visit-the-inlaws-because-the-kids-might-be-sick thing is the fault of JN's brother and his wife and kids. Last year, they KNEW their kids were sick, and even though my inlaws asked them NOT to come, they came anyway and my inlaws got it. My MIL got it so bad she was hospitalized for a month, and her vision didn't return for almost 6 months. So, the inlaws are overly-paranoid, and understandably so. But my BIL & SIL should be SHOT....they live close enough to see the parents anytime, even just for a day visit. We don't have the same luxury -- we have to arrange visits months ahead of time, coordinating the boys' school schedule with JN's work schedule, etc. Having the BIL & SIL being selfish and making the inlaws sick last year now screwed us outta coming in, out of fear of them getting sick again. WE'RE paying for BIL & SIL being selfish assholes!! PISSES MY SHIT OFF. So, since we're all FINE, we're trying to have fun with the boys here this weekend....went bowling last night, going to the waterpark today. Of course, I'm having the period from hell, and can't swim unless people want me bleeding through my suit everywhere, so not-so-much fun for Mom -- what else is new, right? Sorry so graphic, but I'm sort of a tell-it-like-it-is person, ya dig? I got no time for sugar-coated bullshit -- I spew enough of that to get through my daily life to make myself sick.

I *will* have positive things to talk about soon, I promise....but WOW, is 2006 ending with a pissy-ass fizzle....