A Royal Surprise!

Yikes! Yesterday I was cleaning the house in preparation for Princess, HT, and Bubba's visit today, when I heard the door being messed with. I went to tell the kids to stay away from the door (the don't go out on their own, but have been known to open it) and there stood Husband. It was 7:30 pm...he doesn't get off work until 12:40 am. I asked him what he was doing home and he said after the third time in an hour he'd vomited he thought it was time to go home. I don't think I've ever really seen him with a stomach bug. He thought it was food poisoning, but since we'd all been sick at some point in the past week, I'm not so sure.

He crashed for the night at about 8 o'clock and I bunked in with BabyGirl. This morning he was feeling a bit better but the fridge was leaking water all over the floor. Our ice maker water pipe had sprung a leak and the drywall and cabinets were soaking up the water. Husband had to run to town to get a cap to fix it. In the meantime, I took the kids and headed to Bucka and Busha's where Bubba and Princess were staying.

We'd been there for a while when Princess brought up a box from Art full of clothes for the kids and two more books. Then she brought me a bag full of books from QM, a letter from Daddy about my blog and the computer crashing and that he doesn't believe in coincidence, and a hair bow for BabyGirl. Shortly after I opened all that, Bubba's phone rang. It was Mama. He said no, he hadn't given it to me yet. Yes, he'd get it in a minute. Just be patient. I was sitting on the couch holding HT when Bubba brought up a big box wrapped in brown paper addressed to my entire clan. It was signed "Love, Abba."

I handed the baby off to his mom and sat on the floor to unwrap it and before I pulled the paper away, I realized what was under it. Daddy and Mama got us a new computer. I nearly cried. I had pretty much given up hope on having a computer and Internet connection ever again.

It's an emachines desktop with Windows Vista and an Intel Celeron D...not that any of that means much to me, but I am happy as a lark. NM (our resident computer geek) came over and set it all up for us tonight (turns out Daddy had called him earlier in the week to ask him about my crash). Vista needs to download drivers or something like that, so it's pretty slow at the moment, but that should be short lived. Vista will take some time to get used to, but I'll get it eventually.

Until then I may post infrequently and might not be able to keep up with yours, but I'll do my best.

For now, all I can say is, Thank you so very much QM and Daddy! I'm pretty sure you know just how much this means to me.