I'm back!

Did you even notice I was gone? Well, our computer broke on Friday and then Nathan left early, early Saturday morning to ride his bike to OKC for the MS ride. He rode 68ish miles Saturday and 68ish more on Sunday. Do you know how macho I think he is? Very.
I took the kids to my parents Sunday afternoon and went to OKC to pick him up to take him to our friend's hotel room to shower, then to dinner with our friends and to go see the Avett brothers in concert. It was standing only. The Brothers started at 10. They were very fun, but by 11 we decided to sit against the wall in the back to let our feet and backs recouperate. Nathan, of course, was exhausted.
At 11:30 we jumped in the car. Our eyes were crossing and I was saying anything out loud that came to my mind just to keep us awake. We started the drive back home to drop my sis back at her car and then off to my parents' house to fall into one of their beds at 2:30am, only to rise at 6:30 and get the girls ready for school. We dropped them off, got Nathan off to work and I fell into bed for 30 minutes while Kate watched a movie. Then it was heavy-duty coffee time. Needless to say, Monday was hard. Oh well. We knew it would be and it was worth all the fun had.
Finally on Tuesday we pulled out our archaic computer from a closet, dusted it off and gave it two days to refresh itself. And now I'm back.

Originally, when the computer broke, I felt a sense of doom and said to myself, "Perfect timing, God. Why did the computer have to break on the weekend my husband would be leaving me with the kids for 2 days? Surely I will not survive." But actually, it was great. The girls "helped" me with their halloween costumes (2 down. 2 to go). Everyone wants to be a character from Tinkerbell. The house was really clean, because I gave myself permission to drink an ungodly amount of coffee since Nathan would be gone.
God is good and it needed to happen. I would have never committed myself to a computer fast on my own and it has, I think, rewired my brain to search out other things, like be productive and don't run away from stress, because there's nowhere to run, so just sit there and soak it up and deal with it and love it, because God is giving it to me for a reason.

Lola has shunned baby food. She dispises me holding a spoon in front of her face. She screams and shakes with anger at the sight of it. So all of the sudden, in the matter of a day, my 10 containers of baby food are not needed in this house, unless I want a smooth, healthy snack for myself. Lola also observes her sisters fighting and shakes her arms and says, "no, no, no, no, no..." to them. And then they start laughing at her and stop fighting.
I am happy for Nathan, because our last baby neeeeds him. She is the only one who has ever come to tears when he walks in from work because she wants him to hold her right away. She lays her head on him and touches his face and loves her time with Daddy, and I'm very glad he gets to have that with her, because she is growing so fast. It seems like only yesterday I had her wrapped up like a mummy for halloween and she was just 6 days old.

Well, this has been long and wordy.
Surely I will have my roman shades up this weekend and show you how the look!