The Hampton Times

Whatever I caught on Saturday came back with a vengeance on Monday morning. I ended up staying home from work and went to the doctor to get a prescription for antibiotics. I'm hoping to make it into work tomorrow. Angie kicked butt today! She basically pretended that I wasn't home and took the twins to gymnastics (with Adrian), and then to school. I know it had to be so tempting for her to ask me to watch Adrian because it would have lightened her workload a little bit. But I really appreciated the ability to just rest all morning and not have to worry about looking after Adrian. And even after I got back from the doctor, Angie made dinner and gave all three boys a bath! Super Mom!! I'm telling you... Time to go rest some more.

Last night's "date night" was not all that we'd hoped it would be. I was feeling under the weather as the day wore on, and by the time we dropped Adrian off at my parents' house I was starting to feel achy all over. By the time dinner ended, I just wanted to go home and lie down, so seeing a movie was out of the question. Angie was tired, too, and was looking forward to just getting into her PJ's, having some hot tea and relaxing in the family room. Meanwhile, I started getting chills and just could not get warm. I felt light-headed and dizzy and then started to shiver all over. I dozed off and on while lying on the couch, and finally crawled into bed around 11:45pm. But not before taking two Advil and some NyQuil capsules. By morning, I felt a little better, although the body aches were still present. After lunch, I started feeling more like my old self again. It was a very strange 24 hours, that's for sure. So now it's just me and Angie unt...

The twins are with grandmom for the night and Adrian is taking a nap right now. When he gets up, we'll be dropping him off at Mom Mom's for the night and heading into Philadelphia for dinner tonight. After that, we'll probably go to a movie or something. I know we're both looking forward to sleeping tomorrow morning and getting out of bed whenever we feel like it!

Throwing Muses is playing at Philadelphia's World Cafe Live in early March. I haven't seen them play live in a few years, so I'm looking forward to it. I need to get off my butt and buy tickets first, though! I think it's on a Tuesday night, which kind of sucks since I'll have to work the next day, but it'll be worth it. Kristin's "other" band 50 Foot Wave is one of the openers, so that should make for a loud evening of rockin' music.

We're battling some sickness in our household. Dillon woke up Thursday night complaining that his ear hurt, so Angie took him to the doctor on Friday. Sure enough, he had an ear infection. So now he's taking some antibiotics twice a day for the next 7 days, and we're giving him Children's Motrin at night to help him sleep. You'd never know he was sick from watching him, though. All weekend, both he and Jason have been running around like madmen. Every so often one of them will cough or have to blow their nose, but other than that nothing seems to slow them down. I took them for a walk through the woods behind our house on Saturday morning, hoping it might tire them out a bit. It worked on Jason, but Dillon was still fired up when we got back. I don't know where he gets the energy from. Angie signed them both up for T-ball, which starts in April, so we'll see how that goes! I have a feeling it will drain Angie and I more than the twins... Adam and C...

We received a cookbook called "Killer Chili" from our friends Jeff and Lauren as a housewarming gift a few weeks ago, and I've been trying to make time to cook one of the recipes included in the book. Up until Saturday, I'd figured on "Pablano & Grilled Chicken Chili", but in the usual chaos that erupts when we go shopping with the kids in tow, we remembered that we were already thawing out one pound of ground beef at home so we switched recipes and chose "Sidecar Bar & Grille Chili," which is based on the chili served at the Sidecar Bar & Grille in Philadelphia, PA (of course). The recipe calls for 3 pounds of ground beef (serves 11, it says), so while we were at Wegman's we picked up an additional 2 pounds of ground beef (under Angie's protests that I'd be making "way too much" for us to eat), along with the rest of the ingredients (1 large green bell pepper, 1 large yellow onion, 28 oz. can of crushed tomatoes...

I uploaded some pictures that Angie and I took of the kids outside playing in the snow. The snow started falling on Tuesday afternoon (2/3) so Angie had them outside after school to take advantage of the opportunity. Of course, by the time I got home they were sick of the snow and were already inside. But it kept snowing overnight and I didn't have to work so I was able to get out there with the twins in the morning (see previous post). Since Angie didn't come outside with me, it was hard to shoot video of the kids tubing since I was also the designated launcher. But I got a couple of decent vids (see below). If you want to check out the pictures we took, just click the Picasa photo stream at the top right corner of this blog or click the link in the first paragraph for the slideshow.

Parkway closed because of the bad weather this morning, so I had my second Snow Day of the year. This, of course, meant "Get the twins in their snow suits because it's time to break out the inner tubes again!" Angie stayed inside this time with Adrian. He wasn't too into the snow last week, so we gave him a break this time. Although I think he might have liked it better today because it wasn't raining and miserable. It was actually quite nice. Unfortunately for the twins, their afternoon pre-school was not canceled so we had to cram as much fun into the morning as possible. I shot some video clips (again) and I took some pictures that I'll post later on today. For now, here's a pic of the twins: