Well, today I am home from church.  I am officially sick.  Last night I was runnng a fever, but today it seems to have broken.  I hope the fever stays away  We are supposed to be traveling back to SC in just three days.  I need to get better quick!!!!  This is giving me the opportunity to have lunch done when Jason and the kiddos get home.  I am having roasted chicken, sweet potatoes, stuffing, green peas, corn, rolls, and cherry cobbler.  While it sounds like a lot, it will not take very long at all to prepare.  I placed the potatoes in the croc pot to cook, the chicken in the oven, and the rest is easy. 

We will be clocking in next door tonight at 9pm and will not be clocking out until Tuesday at 9pm.  Yep, you read it right, we are pulling 48 hours.  We are blessed with the flexibility to be able to run home and nap while the other covers, so that is a plus.  And, Jason loves to work all night, so he will doing most of the night work.  I am not much of a napper, so we will see how I react to all of this, LOL!!!!

I have been searching the Black Friday adds this morning.  Not a while lot appeals to me.  Maybe it is because I feel cruddy and the thought of being at out in 20 degree weather at 4am just doesn't sound like fun to me right now.  I think it is mostly the tradition of it all.  Whether I buy anything or not, my aunt and I (and sometimes my mom) each year are out at WalMart at 4am to watch the people fight like idiots over $3 croc pots and Barbies.  That is the best entertainment I get all year.  Then there is eating out.  We always have such fun with this.  One year I poured a glass of tea on my aunt at Bob Evans, another year we ate at Chili's and my mom ordered a Chili burger.  She was a bit upset that her burger didn't have Chili on it.  I explained to her that it was a Chili burger because we were at Chili's.  I guess you had to be there to get the full humor of it, but it was funny.  I think that was the same year I ordered a Chipotle burger and pronounced it wrong and it was really funny.  We have a lot of fun on Black Friday.  It will really be special this year because we were unable to get together last year for Thanksgiving and it has been almost a year since we all have all seen each other.

We are taking the week off of school.  I think to try to do anything this week is pointless.  We will resume on December 2 and go until Christmas week.  I do need to get Conner schedule to take the ACT and set up an appointment at Vol State to get information on the dual enrollment program for next year.  He is wanting to go through paramedic training, so it is our goal to make sure he is ready to start his training right after graduation from high school.  While I am glad he has finally chosen a career, I think he would make an awesome nurse (which I think he would like to do as well, he just still has the stereotype that men aren't nurses and he would get made fun of). 

Gotta go get my cobbler in the over!