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I know I know.  You are made at me because I didn't write you last night.  I am so sorry, but I guarantee you that I was totally out of it and couldn't even turn on my computer if I had willed myself to do so.  I got the stomach flu.  Ugh.  And on my birthday to boot.  I spent my birthday sitting in the bathroom praying for death (okay slight exaggeration but you get my drift).  I hate throwing up.  Oh man I haven't thrown up that much since I had morning sickness for 3 months with Buffalo.  It was beyond miserable, and it sounds like out of everyone who got sick I didn't have near the worst of it (thank you Jesus, I just might not have survived.. okay okay again slight exaggeration).  Not only did I get it but so did Buffalo, my friend Mama T, her daughter L, Casey Lou, Dad, Mom, Auntie M, and the list goes on.  Let me just take you throw Sunday and then maybe you'll have pity on me for my late post.  So 11 ish Quinnie had an accident in the bathroom.  I mean #2 from floor to ceiling.  (yeah yeah exaggeration but it was pretty bad) So there I was on my hands and knees scrubbing the bathroom. I felt so bad for the little thing.  She was a sack of potatoes who just wanted to be held.  Sweet Mama T cuddled her up while I was cleaning and packing up the car for our trip back home.  About 30 min. into the trip in the middle of nowhere I said "oh man I got tummy troubles".  Honestly I thought I was going to have to pull over and pop-a-squat any where but of course there are no trees lending any sort of privacy in Eastern CO, fortunately for me we came upon a rest stop.  Mama T couldn't stop laughing at me and my little predicament.   Should have known right then that this was not going to be a fun trip.  After our little detour to the rest stop we got going, I felt much better after that and we started to make up time.  About at the NE border a deer leaped out in front of us and I nearly hit the thing.   Mama T and I screamed the kids all laughed and asked if we could do it again, I had swerved big time to miss the antlers coming through my window, I know I know you aren't supposed to swerve but my instincts kicked in.  I think I missed that sucker by inches.  We stopped because Lou had to go to the bathroom and that usually means it is an emergency and I needed to calm my nerves.  After our 2nd stop we decided to stop in Ogallala for dinner, went to Wendy's sat in the drive through for what seemed like an hour and then it happened.  Mama T said she couldn't eat her tummy was rumbling.  Little did we know we were in for it.  About 30 min. after our stop Mama T said she had to get to a bathroom.  I stepped on the gas and got us to the next gas station as fast as I could.  And that is when it all went downhill.  That's when we knew she had the stomach flu.  We stopped at every rest stop we could and the rest of the trip home was just miserable.  I felt so bad for Mama T.  I dropped her and L off at their house and started to get a little queasy myself.  It was terrible.  I promptly started getting  the chills and throwing-up 2 hrs after I got home and didn't stop until the next day.  I have not been sick like that since M & M's wedding weekend, oh what fond memories.  I tell you what even though I got the stomach flu I still had a blast at my CO birthday party.  I don't know if Mom and Dad will invite us back we seem to always be sick, or get them sick when we come back from NE, I'm hoping they don't hold it against us. I snapped this picture while laying on my own "sick bed".  Buffalo had a nice little bed set up on the chair.  He is so cute even when he was up-chucking every few minutes.

I don't have any recipes for you, we haven't eaten in a few days.  I'll try and come up with something for you.  I love the headband.  Hope it will show up in my stocking this year, especially now that I live in such a cold place.  It would get a whole bunch of use!

Miss you!!