sick day

Why the sad picture? Work was soooooo crazy this week. This is how all the kids looked this week. We had teachers out this week because they were sick and we had a bunch of kids sick this week as well. Some of these kids stayed home... and the rest came and were just grumpy and fussy all day long. And a group of four fussy, sick toddlers is NEVER a good thing. Since we only had 4 kids (we normally have 8. The ratio is 2 teachers to 8 kids) I ended up in the room all by myself each day. one day this poor little baby girl was screaming because she was so tired and so so so so sick and I wanted to sit down and just cry with her!! Ahhh!!!!!! Please tell me that parenthood is easier than watching a bunch of sick toddlers! I like to tell myself that after watching 8 kids all at once, having just one kid at a time will be a breeze....

right??

Each night this week before I went to bed I would tell Steven, "Hey! Maybe I'll be sick and I won't have to go in tomorrow!" Well, Thursday morning, I woke up with a sore throat, stuffy nose, bad cough, and I was barely able to talk. My wish had been granted.

It was probably the best sick day I've ever had. This is what I did:

I ate TONS of girl scout cookies while watching nearly half of the 6th season of Gilmore Girls, it was wonderful. The peanut butter cookies are by far my favorite.

I also read this book:
This is one I've been wanting to read for a while and so I was ssooo happy to finally get to read it!! I have read several of this author's books and I LOVE her.

This book is about a woman named Jane living in New York who is obsessed with Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice (the Colin Firth kind). Her Great Aunt finds out about this obsession and so she buys Jane a... "vacation" to a place in England where the guests get to dress up as people from the Austen time-period for three weeks and live the lifestyle. Not only that, but they have actors who try to "woo" the women visiting. Jane goes in hopes that she will be cured of her Darcy obsession.

Overall, I liked this book, but the "wooing" got a bit cheesy (even for someone like me who loooves Austen movies) and the whole idea of it was a little hard to believe. I still enjoyed it though and it was sooooooooooooooooooooooo nice to read a book that wasn't a TEXT BOOK or something.

Such a great sick day, I want another one already.