You gotta love getting a voicemail that goes like this:

From J: Hi there. So I was calling so that you could talk me out of doing a potentially stupid thing, but since you are not answering, I guess I’m just going to go ahead and do it anyway.

Oh yes. And you better believe that I called him back the minute I got that call. And I got his voicemail and left a message something to this effect:

From C: Um…seriously? If you think it might be a potentially stupid thing…why are you still going ahead with it?  Call me back. Now!

Thankfully it wasn’t actually something stupid. At work on Friday they had a bunch of tech-y stuff they were playing with and he decided that we really needed an Xbox 360 with the Kinect thing.

Eh. Whatever. I am so very blase about all of that tech-y stuff, but I know better than to talk him out of his electronics – that would be like him trying to talk me out of something crafty. So needless to say, he came home with it on Friday night.

And now I give you further proof that Daddy is by far the more fun parent. The girls think he is a hero and are obsessed with the games. But Mommy does loves how crazy active the games are. Emma was actually sore on Sunday morning from all of the jumping and movement she did on Saturday. Daddy and I still disagree on the “screen time” debate – but it will give me lots of practice trying to get action shots in low light. (Which I clearly need!)

We transformed the playroom into a gaming room for the SuperBowl for the kids who didn’t really care about the actual game.

And yes, I know Em has a Favre jersey on and he is no longer with the Packers (and also a creepy old man who doesn’t understand how camera phones work), but she doesn’t know any of that and it is the only GB jersey Daddy has. Plus, she only watched the halftime show, so I think that little detail can be overlooked and no harm done.

Wednesday was the much anticipated “Special Friends Day” at Addie’s school. Daddy got asked to be her special friend and off they went happily skipping to her school.

About an hour and a half later, J. walked in carrying a very lethargic parcel of a girl. And this is pretty much how she looked the rest of Wednesday and most of Thursday…

I hate it when the girls are sick. But now that they are a little older, they know enough to just sofa surf for a bit and take it easy. And that makes it much easier on everyone. She did however try convincing me that she was okay to go to school on Thursday (even though she had a raging fever of 101).  I think it was just because she wanted to deliver all of her kitty valentines to her friends. (They were delivered – thank you, Brandi – and the valentines for Addie were even delivered back to our house! Such service.)

Emma finished all of her Valentines as well…

Her class had a Valentine’s Day tea party celebration that I was kind of in charge of coordinating. I was very excited – as we had many fun things planned and the kids were REALLY excited about it. But alas, I had to bail out and couldn’t party with the first graders since I was home with Addie. I was kind of disappointed, but the other moms said it went off without a hitch and Emma had a great time, so no worries.

What did I do with an entire day housebound?  So, you know how I really hate…HA! J. is cringing right now. Every time I start a sentence with, “So…you know how I really hate (insert some sort of travesty here)?” He just knows that there is going to be some project tied to my proclamation.

And of course, there is.

I really hated the wallpaper in our little breakfast nook/kitchen. (Apparently I hated it so much I cropped it out of most photos, but you can get a glimpse of it here.) It was too much. We have a Spanish-style house with really cool Spanish tile in the kitchen…and this wallpaper is the last thing that should have been put up in there.

So it came down. And I spent the majority of my day stripping the glue off, so that we can paint it nice and fresh and new.

And even stripped with just the primer paint it already looks a hundred times better. Now…to find a color to paint it.

The girls have a four-day weekend, and I already promised them that we would paint their rooms, so I foresee an awful lot of painting in the near future. (Sorry, J.)

Before our crazy (short) week around here – as in last weekend – my view was a little bit different…

That was my plane from Orlando to Miami on Saturday. Yeah. That IS the cockpit. No flight attendants, only the pilot and co-pilot and there was no door separating us from them, either. Now, I am not a nervous flier, I actually kind of enjoy flying. But when the plane starts shaking, you can see the runway (out the front windshield) still a good couple hundred feet below, and then you watch the co-pilot flipping about twenty switches as fast as he can…yeah, it makes you a little bit uneasy.

Needless to say, I made it safe and sound to Miami and the SuperBowl! And then I was treated to views like this…

And hey, there’s that boat featured in our Team Up Thursday yesterday…

And I got to go to my first SuperBowl…

And even though my Colts didn’t win, it was still the SuperBowl…

And it was pretty cool. We had great seats. Besides football we got to see The Who (I didn’t even know I liked them – but their halftime show was amazing!) …

And we were entertained by the slightly drunken antics of Jamie Foxx who was just a few rows behind us up in the suite…

Yeah, it was pretty spectacular. And well worth the crazy traveling and jockeying around to make it all work.

Thanks for taking me, J. It was so much fun.