Three Times The Fun

So they say bad things come in three's right?  That's certainly been the case with our house the last few days.

I was so stoked for the weekend. I took Friday off, hubby and I had some plans and then we were going to go to M's Valentines Day party at school. I always make the parties but this one was special.  They've been skating in PE and a few classes got selected to have a skating party.  M's was one of the classes. And they were letting the parents skate too. She was SO excited. That's all we heard about the entire week - the skate party.

Unfortunately, things didn't turn out so well. As soon as we picked them up from daycare Thursday, we knew. Off the urgent care we went and sure enough, they both tested positive for strep. So not only were they sick but both of them missed out on their Valentines parties. Such a disappointment.

Then, hubby banged up the car. Nothing serious - busted taillight and scratched bumper - just enough to cause damage but not enough to make it worth filing a claim.  And the little things that don't seem so big always end up costing a small fortune. Of course, I can't talk because I've done far more damage to all our vehicles than he ever has. In fact, I think I've still got one or two on him. Like the time I backed into his truck. Listen, he was pulled up beside me at a weird angle and I didn't notice when I started to back up. I mean, who pulls in like that anyway? You can't pull in catty-corner and think you're not going to get hit... But of course, he's all like "...look behind you before you back up blah, blah, blah" and suddenly it's my fault...

So we scrapped our Friday plans and I hung around taking care of some sickies.  The antibiotics kicked in so Saturday we had our own little party. Totally not the same but at least it was something...

We spent the rest of the weekend pretty low-key and lazy, gorging on chocolates. Okay, I was the only one actually gorging. Man, it was ugly. The good thing is that I just got it over with - I just hurried and ate them so now I don't have to worry about being tempted anymore.

We got an extra snow day, which was awesome. It would have been more awesome if the school hadn't called with the closing message at 4:40. But hey, we got an extra day at home so I'll take that kind of early morning wake up call any day.

And just when I thought things were winding down I feel the house vibrate. "Did you feel that?" I asked the hubby. I was totally thinking it was an earthquake. But then almost at the same time he said "Do you hear that?" and there was a loud vibration coming from the middle of our wall. What the heck?  So he ran upstairs to check...actually, I'm not sure what he was checking but whatever it was it was not the problem. Then he ran outside and our unit is vibrating like crazy. Something was definitely wrong. So we had to shut it down.  We're fortunate that we have separate units for the upstairs and downstairs but all I could think was cha-ching!  Now we've got the car and an ac/heat unit to pay for - fun times!

And all of this as I was just thinking about how awesome it's been that I broke my tradition of getting a speeding ticket in January. At this point, I think I would prefer the cost of the ticket...