let's party!

I love perusing Pinterest and admiring all the fun and amazing things people accomplish. I saw this image and HAD TO MAKE IT. 

How festive and fun is this?!

I ordered WAY MORE ping pongs than I needed off of Amazon. I used a seam ripper from my sewing kit to make my little holes. My lights had a little hinge on the side so I didn't even need to worry about hot gluing the loose lights to the balls. Bonus!

I hung the lights during Christmas for a friends birthday party in December and I am planning on leaving them up for the New Year. 1) because I'm still morning sick and 2) they just add a little flare and fun because I'm missing my Christmas decorations.

Now, I have a HUGE bag of ping pong balls and don't know what to do with them. What projects have you seen or done that include ping pongs.

patience

Everyone has gotten sick now. Yep, I've joined the ranks and am SICK! Both Joe and Corban threw up and felt bad for a couple of days. I guess the virus weakened a little going through two boys or this virus has a funny sense of humor, but I'm not throwing up I'm .... well, having trouble at the other end.

We went to a friend's birthday party last night. We bowed out early because I spent more time in their bathroom than I did conversing with everyone. Yikes! I practically yelled at Joe to drive faster because I didn't think I'd make it to the bathroom on time! "I'm driving safe, Amber." Don't tell me that! Just get me home!

Joe spoke in church today and I taught primary. I guess I should of stayed home and not infected everyone with my germs, but I'm a sharing kind of person and wanted to spread the love. I hope I'm better for all the Halloween festivities!

chunkage

For about 3 weeks, Corban has been sick. He's had molars come in, drank some acetaminophen, and gotten a gastrointestinal virus. Sleep is a luxury and our elliptical machine has stood dormant for all this time. The doc told me this pattern of throw up, no throw up could go on for another 5 days.

I was watching my grandma tonight and feeding her dinner when Corban looked at me and I looked at him and he just threw up. As I continued to stare at him, he threw up again! What kind of mom just looks at her son while he throws up? Oh, I'll tell you. A mom that has been thrown up on or seen her fair share of throw up to not want to do anything about it, that's who! This was at my parents house, on their hard wood floors. After the throw up stopped, I ran him to the bathroom to rinse off and wash away what I could. I then cleaned the floors. I guess I waited too long and some of it seeped through the teeny tiny cracks in the wood. Nice.

In mydefense, I did warn my mom what was happening and told her I was afraid of Corban throwing up tonight. She assured me that everything had been thrown up on before, but that's not so. They built their new house post kids! Oh, well. I tried spraying 5 year old Lysol but it ended up smelling more like stale, old perfume. Yuck! I had to open windows and hope the cold air would freeze those gross smelling molecules out of the house.

It's almost Corban's bed time. Should I work out or go to bed?