Ooops. I wrote this, but apparently never published it. Ah well, it’s only a week old. Oops.

Well, Mardi Gras has come and gone, and for once, I’m glad. It wasn’t the greatest holiday. Mostly because of my back. I couldn’t do as much as I wanted to, so we only managed to make it to one parade. And then the weather was yucky on the other days, so we were stuck inside. Bleh.

Friday, I was home sick with a fever. I haven’t had a fever in a very long time, so that was weird. I had to go to Traffic Court in the morning, though, (woo hoo, got my red light ticket knocked down to a non-moving violation. Whew!) but afterwards, I laid on the sofa, watching the TV show Bones from season 1, episode 1. Good show.

I was feeling a bit better on Saturday, but we were trapped at home because of parades in our area, and the weather. I get cabin fever very easily, so it was not a fun day for me. But late that afternoon, before I went completely insane, I loaded the boys in the car and took them to Barnes & Noble to play with the trains and look at books. At least we got a little fresh air.

Sunday was our big day to go out and do stuff. Fortunately, the weather was gorgeous! The boys wore their new shirts I made them and I loaded them in the wagon. We left the house a little later than I would have liked, so we had to park reeeeally far away. I swear, I pulled that wagon a mile to get to the parade. It didn’t seem to bother my back any more than usual, thank goodness.

We got to the parade and met up with some friends.

Saw some interesting sights. Like a pig being roasted right there on the neutral ground.

Then I pulled the wagon a million miles back to the car.

Playing at home:

Monday was more boring.

And Tuesday wasn’t terribly promising, but we ended the day at our friend’s house for a little shindig. There were people there dressed funny.

But mostly the boys just had fun running up and down the stairs, trying to give me a heart attack.

That’s about it. So glad to be back to normal now!

So Mardi Gras was two days ago, and wow, did it ever sneak up on me. It was relatively early this year, and what with the Superbowl and all, it just came and went really fast. But we managed to have fun…

It was really cold late last week, so I didn’t make it to any parades until Saturday morning. I took the boys to see the day parades with Ren and her family. It was a gorgeous day! Kind of chilly, so I put the boys’ Mardi Gras shirts on over their sweatshirts. They looked like Sta-Puft Marshmallows.

(I wasn’t original this year. Last year, I also made them shirts that said “This One”, “That One”, and “The Other One”. Next year I’ll try to think of something new.) My, how they’ve grown!

One fun thing was that we were in the same location to watch the parade this year as last year, and a few people came up to me and said they remembered the boys from last year. One woman took a picture of them to send to her 55 year old triplet brothers!

On Sunday, I decided to get out of Dodge and took the boys to spend the night at Aunt Renny’s house. Miles especially looooves Renny, which I suppose is because he knows she’ll be his mother-in-law one day. Sweet boy.

Renny’s house is fun because she feeds them waffles with syrup (she is so brave) and has fun toys for them to play with.

I headed back to town Monday evening, and on Fat Tuesday, we took the boys to see the big parades. We got there too late to get a good spot for Zulu, so we went and staked out a spot for Rex and waited a couple of hours for it to start. Fortunately, the boys had an entire pack of wipes to occupy themselves with…

Finally, the parade came by, and we all got some good loot.

And that was our Mardi Gras. The end!