Reasons Why I am an Awesome mom...

I am an awesome mom. I survived Halloween Weekend..by myself. Here are the stats:

2 VERY sick people - as in one spouse and one five year old girl who had the fevery flu...for days and still going.

4 painted pumpkins - could quite possibly be worse than carving all four kids pumpkins simultaniously

1 gigantic mess made by the two-legged tornado (Ellie's nickname) - envision red paint all over herself and the pumpkin, and the floor, and the carpet and the stairs, and the bathroom door - Awesome.

1 night of trick or treating in the freezing rain. Awesome again. Me trick or treating for McKell who was too sick to hold her bag.

4 school Halloween parties

1 office trick or treat

1 Neighborhood Halloween party

Family pictures - with the sick people totally faking smiles since I couldn't reschedule

Halloween dinner of mummy dogs and apple monster slices...which no one ate. My attempt at a fun Halloween dinner.

Yes...I am amazing and tired. And I was so busy doing all this, I didn't get a picture of the kids in their costumes. We'll have to fake it in a week when McKell is feeling better. We'll just pose in front of the Thanksgiving decorations.

Impaled by the bathtub faucet

Just experienced my first impaling tonight, and I barely lived to tell the tale. I was washing the girls hair in the bathtub and my feet slipped on the tile floor. I flew head first into the bathtub, but the fall was broken when my stomach and the bathtub faucet met. I crawled to the girls floor waiting my untimely demise via internal bleeding.

As you can tell, I'm still here, so there was no death involved. Just a sore stomach.
It would have been funny had it not happened to me.
Tyler's first response, "Did the girls laugh at you?". Thanks, thanks so much, son.