Not this time!

After some hopeful talk about snow, and rumors abounding, the above picture - and the expression on the weatherman's face - says it all.  No snow for us here.  Not even a glimmer of hope!  This was for tomorrow night, so at least we're not let down at the last minute or anything.  Sometimes they project snow, snow, snow, and we get nothing at all.  Those are the worst!

Today, Madison stayed home.  She was coughing in the night, and was even running a fever at one point.  We medicated her as best we could, and supplied her with plenty of tissues.  But it's one of those things you just have to wait out.  Hopefully she'll recover a bit more quickly, but at least this isn't the flu.  It's a fever with coughing and congestion, sure.  Just not anything monumental.  We've been through that - in fact, this time last year, Madison was struggling with strep throat, and then mono.

So she stayed home today, and we did some homework and also some piano practice for fun.  Daddy and Madison are getting better and better, quite slowly, but also quite surely.  Soon, we'll be master pianists.  Maybe we can even do some of those fun duets!

Mainly Madison was on the couch today under the covers.  The weather isn't all that cold, but we want to keep her warm, of course.  She read books and watched some television, and basically rested.  Daddy was at work today, preparing for a message with pirates tonight.

But we did a few other things, most notably work towards Summer Xtreme and even some assistance with the services upstairs for the grown-ups.  Oh, and check out this ad we made for a movie date coming up.

This ad makes me so happy.  Do you see Chun Li in it?  I think that was put in there just for me.  A graphics guy here does a lot of our stuff, and did a swell job with this one.  I think Madison will definitely be with us this night, but I think she'll be watching the movie with us at home too:  it's "Wreck-it Ralph" again.

It was a longer day, but that's the way these work days are.  Can you believe the fast is half-way over with?  Fast or no, time travels quickly.  Sometimes with the fasting, you feel time stretch out in such a brutal way.  But Mommy has been taking good care of us here, that's for sure.  Meal time has been something exciting just about every night!