Calgon, I need to be taken away!

I need to take a warm soothing bath this evening. It's been a challenging 24 hours. Last evening JR was an emotional basketcase. Everything anyone said to him brought him to tears. We finally understood that he probably wasn't feeling well when he vomited all over his bedroom this morning. I'm still trying to figure out how a nine-year-old doesn't try to get out of bed, but that's the way it goes. I've been way behind in laundry, so I was working on that this afternoon (especially given the clean up situation). While I was outside helping my husband put together the new basketball hoop that the Easter bunny brought for the kids, something happened to the washing machine and it flooded the laundry room floor. On the "up side" I had just finished drying the towels that I'd used to clean JR's room so they were readily handy. When I called my husband in to dinner, he announced that he realized he had put part of the portable hoop frame together incorrectly and was going to need to take it apart. Given my husband's lack of engineering ability, this is not terribly surprising. In fact, had I not gone out to look at it for myself, he would have put it back together incorrectly as well. The good news is that tomorrow is another day, and hopefully we'll have fewer adventures!