Everyone realizes that there is only one week left in September. Right?
Tamara hangs her head and moans, "Where did the days go?!?!?"

I was under the weather the entire week and still have a cough to show for it. My first antibiotics attempt was a train wreck. I think if a medicine lists insomnia as a side effect, I should just opt for a different one. Four nights without sleep.... Doing much better on the new meds....

Given I was sick (I mean sick to the point that my husband had to get the kids), what did me do....not a whole heck of a lot.... Here's the very short list:

• Sea foam play time
• Science in the garden -- this is really find the caterpillars on our milkweed plants
• Finished edits for The Tea Party which goes live this coming Wednesday
• Clicked the button to release the print version of The Tea Party (because Amazon says it needs up to 72 hours...)
• Kids had more play dates than typical for a school week
• Girls went to a friend's birthday party and had a great time (Tamara slept)
• Still managed a meal every night because everyone needs to eat, even a sick Mommy

Sure, it looks like a long list, but trust me when I say that I did mostly laundry and dinner without much else. Some weeks, that's the best you can do.

That's it for this weekly round-up. Catch y'all next week. Cross your fingers, pray, or send healthy vibes my way. Thank you.

This is coming out a little late due to illness -- one freakishly weird pounding headache. Probably the summer flu. Icky. Either way, I'm keeping it brief because we did fewer things last week!

Things we did this past week:

• 2 failed science experiments
• Made banana bread with TM
• An ornament for Halloween
• Finished the formatting and set The Tea Party up on all retail sites
• Completed first drafts for books 3 and 4 in the Emma & Ava series
• Released Little Witch Girl in paperback

That's the best of this last week. See you next week, hopefully healthy and with more to share.

I make one batch then split it so each kid gets a bowl for their color choice. My eldest remains firmly in the pink camp. My youngest is much more willing to experiment. Thankfully, they will eat any color pancakes.

Even better, these can be frozen between pieces of wax paper. This is critical for my youngest who takes after my baby brother. She wants pancakes every morning and I don't often have the time to make a fresh batch. So, out of the freezer come the leftover pancakes. 30 seconds or so in the microwave and my youngest is a happy kiddo!

#pinkpurplepancakes