Weekends are sometimes the two days of the week we look forward to the most. We might have plans with friends or just an outing of some sort – park (not now with all the snow, mind you), shopping, the used bookstore, whatever. And sometimes they are just really quiet and low-key.

Especially when you have a six-year-old who comes home on the Friday from school, looking a little tired and grumpy, only to realize she’s actually coming down with a mild gastro. At that point, she spends most of the day lying on the couch, watching movies and looking much smaller than she really is.

I felt so bad for her because she would be hungry (she was starving at lunch time and ate four slices of toast), but then her stomach would hurt and she’d end up on the couch again.

Then I had a little three-year-old who was apparently going a little stir-crazy.

I would have taken her out in the snow – or at least a walk, since playing in the snow gets old for her after ten minutes – but George wasn’t home today and Hayley certainly wasn’t in any sort of shape to accompany us. I’m not sure she would have had the energy to even get outside, let alone have fun.

And to round it all out, we also had the innocent looking Beagle, looking all pretty and angelic.

Looking at that cute face, you would never know that just last night I nearly traded her in for a goldfish because when I got up to refill my glass of water, she jumped up on my chair and ate the last giant piece of delicious butter chicken that was still on my plate. DEVASTATION is what that is.

As for me, I took it easy and hung out with the girls, trying to keep Breanna entertained (thank God for her dinosaurs) and tried to help Hayley feel better. We had never seen High School Musical so I put that on. Because I am still a teenager on the inside, I LOVED it and can’t wait to see the second and third one. That movie only reinforced my belief that life would be so much more fun and exciting if we all burst into song and dance at random intervals.

It was a quiet day, but that’s okay sometimes. It was warm and cozy inside, I got to play in Photoshop for awhile, had good (if a bit sickly) company, and found out that this picture was nominated as the photo of the week in one of my Flickr groups:

That’s pretty cool if you ask me. So altogether, not a bad Saturday at all.