Missing the rainbow.....

so the original plan for today, was to get the kids off to school, head to the mall to get back to walking each day, head home work on dogwatch stuff and maybe clean a little house......well last night gracie had taken a nap (highly unusual for her) and woken up complaining about a sore throat....i look in her throat....sure looks like strep to me. so i call mom and let her know i can not walk at the mall the next morning. so then, my wonderful sweet dog, hunter (who will cause more than his share of problems this day) needs to go out at 1 this morning. well he's been doign this thing, where we let him out and he goes tearing off to the back of the yard barking at who knows what, and does not want to come back in! now to me, this makes him a very dumb dog! it's freezing out, he has left a warm bed to go out there, and bark at something on the otherside of a fence that he can't get at and if he did, would probably pee everywhere for being a chicken! so once again, he does this, we finally get him back in the house, put him in his crate for punishment to which he barks and barks for the next hour, gracie climbs in bed with me.....chris has left for arkansas for the next 4 days, thank goodness my father goes to work early, so he could take chris to the airport at 5 this morning. fast forward to morning at a decent hour, i am emailing with my friend who asks if i saw the rainbow this morning.....nope, so i figure maybe that's a sign of things to come.....get to the dr's office, go back and wait, dr comes in but has things he has to enter in the computer first. so gracie and i are talking about our vegetable garden we will have once again. we decided our zucchini get as big as baseball bats so maybe we should use the last few ones as such and see how long they hold out. then gracie decides we should use tomatoes instead of balls....brilliant! then she comes up with using the watermelon vines to cut into baseball helmets! lol i said we could use the pumpkins as bases, and she said if we get chickens we can kill them, tear off the feathers and hang them up as "strikes"! hahaha! then we decided we could use beans as score keepers, and cherry tomatoes to write our numbers on the helmets and shirts! finally, i found MY rainbow in the day! she makes me laugh so hard sometimes and she is sooo creative! so the dr looks at her, and says yes it's def strep, he said i am not gonna waste your money on another test when i can tell it's obvious it's strep. he said most of his collegues would call that blasphemy but....i said well that is why we are here seeing YOU and not your colleagues! (another rainbow). unfortunetly, this is where the rainbow ends.....and there was not a pot of gold at the end. we came home and rested for about 2 hrs before having to go get in line to wait to pick up frankie at school and take him to piano practice, now we wait in line for about 40 min so we can get up front to get him in time to make it to piano in time, where we wait another 30 min for his practice to get over. we come home, and i hear, "where is simon" (the new bird they pooled their money together to get). simon is kept in his cage on the deep freeze. **side note, simon is a blue parakeet, named so for simon of the chimunks, they would like to get a green one to name theadore. well simon's cage is a disaster and had been dragged across the dinning room and was lying in front of the front door, however bird, albeit rattled was still safely in his cage, although, bedding, food etc....somehow NOT in his cage AND my lemon tree my mom got me for my birthday had alot of the dirt around it dug out! now this dog has been left alone at home numerous times and the worst he has done is gotten in the trash! you can NOT tell me he was not peeved off at us for putting him in the crate and you know what, he found himself back in the crate for awhile again! ohhhhh but the day we had. thank goodness for the rainbows in the middle!