my brain in tangents

This post will have a few tangents but it will all come together in the end...if not I blame it on the Theraflu. I'll start off with the fact that I am recovering from the flu-like sickness that has hit everyone we know...and I thought I avoided it. But it looks like I'm one of the last few to share in this community effort of building our immune systems. And as a friend of mine who just wrote me an e-mail recently said, "all I want is my mommy right now. " But since my mommy is thousands of miles away, I have to suck it up and lay around all day while my kids watch way too many videos...mommies don't get sick days.

Which brings me to my other tangent. A friend of mine came to pick up my boys while Ansley napped so I could rest and give the boys some good play time with their friend. Let me just say, that I am thankful for great friends.

And this leads me to my last tangent. This same friend gave me a gift a while ago and it has just sat around because I wasn't quite sure what it was. My first thought was that it was little air fresheners because they had a strawberry smell to them. They came in this cute little packaging...

...but the directions were in Japanese.So I went to open one thinking I would set it out as an air freshener (not quite the scent I would prefer) but noticed it was kind of runny. Underneath these cute little egg shaped containers I found these.They looked spoon-like to me so I assumed it must be something to eat. Now usually I am sort-of adventuresome when it comes to trying new foods but I was really hung up on the idea that these were air fresheners...which made it hard for me to think of ingesting them. Well to make a short story really long, I asked another friend of mine who travels to Asia quite a bit if she knew what they were (because I was too embarrassed to ask the friend who gave them to me...dumb I know), and she told me it's like a jello and they're really good. So what did I do with the last two that weren't open yet? I gave them to my boys and they gobbled them up. Don't worry, I did try a little bite before they ate it just to make sure it tasted like a jello-y substance.