Change of Plans

This weekend didn't go quite how we planned it....

First there was the computer virus that consumed everything. Our computer was at a complete standstill. John spent all of Friday night working on the problem. He didn't make any progress until he called our brother-in-law Marc on Saturday to help walk him through a fix. Even with Marc's help it took until Sunday night to remove all of the garbage that managed to get past our firewall. It is hard to believe that some people have so much free time on their hands that they sit at home and make up viruses to infect total strangers computers!

Then I accidentally backed the van into the car in our driveway. That was super fun! The best part is that when you finally manage to forget about doing something so colossally stupid, the kids will bring it up again and again and yet again. "Mom, why did you wreck Daddy's car?" "Mom, why didn't you look before you backed up?" "Mom, are we getting a new van now?"! The studies that show the dangers of driving while on the phone have clearly never looked at the dangers of driving with children that just will not stop TALKING!!!!

Next on my fun list of "don't try this at home" was giving Shane cocoa. Apparently he is allergic to Cocoa powder which is made from ground cocoa beans. We figured that out after giving him a single bite of a cookie containing cocoa. He ended up vomiting and then had diarrhea for the rest of the night. So now we have to stay away from milk, peanuts, and cocoa powder. The good thing is that Shane hasn't let his food allergies keep himself from being the chubbiest guy we know. I am convinced that he is approximately 70% body fat!

We also had some garden casualties this weekend. The deer got ALL of our cucumbers, squash, and melons. Even with a fence they leaned it over and ate the tops off all of our little 6 inch plants that were started from seed! We were not happy. I went out tonight and got a deer fence to lay across the top and then I bought new seed to replant the deer food. If that doesn't work I may have to see if I can round me up a hunter to get rid of the problem once and for all!

I have been doing some research lately and I am 100% sure that the rash I had a few weeks ago was poison ivy and not from the laundry detergent as I previously reported. With the good soil and all of the rain that we have had it turns out we are quite successful at growing poison ivy in our garden right along side our rhubarb. It appears that the source of the poison ivy in our garden is a 40 foot vine growing in the apple tree in our neighbors yard that is only a couple of feet from our garden. So, now that I have it all figured out I am petrified to go near the garden at all! I see leaves of three in my sleep. Why can't the deer eat that?

So there it is. Our fun filled weekend highlights. I don't want a repeat of that anytime soon....well most of it anyway.....