Now that we've talked about the ugly and gotten that over with, let's balance things out with the good.. ☺  I'll begin by sharing that the boys both had amazing days at school. Elliott lost a point and ended up having a green day instead of a teal day, whatever the fuck that means. Green seems like it would be a good color.  Either way, it was a good day.  After the boys got home and I was feeling better, we ran some errands and went to CiCi's Pizza for dinner as a family.  That doesn't happen very often at all and it was really nice.  The absolute highlight of my day took place after we got home from dinner and the errands we had to run.  Emmett has a report…

As days go, yesterday was a mixed bag of good, bad and ugly. This post and the following two will each explore things that happened yesterday.  Let's start with the ugly and just rip the bandage off right away.  It was about mid-morning (9:00 am-ish), when out of nowhere, I got really sick. I don't know what it was but it was horrible. I had to go back to bed. I had reflux really bad and when I would fall asleep, acid would creep up causing me to wake up, unable to breathe.  This happened a few times, even sleeping propped up and it was fucking scary because I was gasping for air. I had to aggressively clear my throat in order to be able to breathe again.  Emmett used…