How I spent my summer vacation... no, not really

But this is how I spent my weekend.

• Patronized local carnival with boys.  
• Watched 7-year-old win a fish.  Yay!  A fish!
• Named fish Leo.
• Took boys to local pet store to buy new fishbowl, fish food and little fish toys for Leo.
• Watched Leo die right before our eyes exactly 24 hours after we brought him home.
• Made someone else flush Leo to his final resting place.  Leo, I hardly knew ye.
• Explained death to 4- and 7-year olds. 
• Promptly replaced Leo with Lou.
• Watched 4-year-old break my cell phone.
• Spent 50 minutes (15 of those minutes with actual Apple employee) at the Apple store (with the boys) to fix above cell phone.
• Held 4-year-old the entire time in Apple store (50 minutes) because he cried.  The.  Entire.  Time.  (50 minutes)
  
• After 14 minutes with Apple employee, determined I am not, in fact, the cell phone contract holder.
• Left Apple store.  Empty-handed (well, except for 4-year-old still in arms). 
• Determined said 4-year-old had a fever of 100.
• Remembered his first day of school is tomorrow.  Of course.
• Found 5 things to describe the 7-year-old that he could take with him to school.
• Gave a bath to 4-year-old (while he screamed in my ear). 

I believe, after this weekend, no one can fault me for my overindulgence with Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy this summer.  I now realize I was preparing for this very moment so I could remember the good times and not this past weekend.

So, really, I'm a prophet, not an alcoholic.  Whew.