Crawling Out

Today I pulled my hair out of its 4-day ponytail (and then put it back up), and stepped outside for the first time since Sunday. I've been plagued with that awful chest cold/cough/flu? that seems inevitable at this point. Bless you, government, and the jury duty that goes along with it; this has been an easy week for Spencer so he has picked up all of my slack, even teaching part of joy school as I sacked out on the couch amidst crazy children running rampant. (I shouldn't really sing his praises though, as he has just jetted off to Utah for a long weekend.)
Realizing that I needed to get OUT, I figured I could manage a venture to the grocery store for some fruit, and to Target for activities for the kiddos to do during conference. At first it was wonderful to be out...73 degree weather, spring showing itself in many new, beautiful ways, fresh air... We got to Target and hurried through; I only had to say no about 50 times to the Can I have ___ question. Then at Safeway we lost all control. Tyler wouldn't ride in the cart, which isn't unusual, so he followed me around bawling, wanting to be held. Then I didn't have my membership card so I had to pay "full price" for all my fruits. We survived. I got home and have become re-acquainted with having my face in the toilet. It just gets better...