This was supposed to be Thursday's post...

As I have mentioned earlier this week, I had been struggling with some major depression, so on Thursday night when Mercedes suggested that we have our party night, since Friday was a day off school, I was less then enthusiastic to say the least.

But I decided that I would summon up every ounce of energy that I had and try to have some fun with my daughter, even if that meant leaving the dirty dishes on the counter to wait until morning to be done.

Being the creative little girl that she is, she decided to make up a game for us to play. First she gathered almost every blanket in the house and spread them out end to end from one end of the house to the other. Then on each blanket she put 3 Webkinz. The rules were as follows...we were each to stand on a blanket 2 blankets apart. One Webkinz was our "enemy" that we had to protect, the other two were for us to use to attack with. The idea was to try to get onto the other persons blanket without getting hit by one of their webkinz or to hit their "enemy" with one of our webkinz. How she thought up this game I do not know, but we ended up having so much fun!

We were laughing and giggling and trying to be sneaky....trying to inching forward on our blankets without the other person noticing, or trying to hide our enemy in the farthest corner of the blanket as possible. Well we played that for about an hour and we had a blast! I was so glad that I made myself get up and play with her, cause those are the memories that I want her to remember.

Much better then all the memories she will have of mom barely able to get out of bed and get dressed.

You can see in the pics the different blankets laid out and the webkinz (3 per blanket) all set out carefully selected in appropriate groupings.

After the Webkinz Blanket game, Mercedes decided that we needed some music on and she decided to play rockstar for awhile and I took advantage of it, grabbed my camera and did something I haven't done in quite awhile...took 100 pics of her just being her!

But I will save the best of those pics for the next post.

By the time we were done all that it was almost 11:30 and she had worked up quite an appetite and as a final fun treat we jumped in the car in our jammies and drove down to the local 24 hour convenience store and bought a bunch of junk food and came home and had fun junk food at midnight for our bedtime snacks!

Mercedes said it was one of our best parties ever, and I honestly had to agree with her!

I was so glad that I had made myself get off the couch and just get up and play. It had been awhile since I had just played with her and it was fun...just plain, good old fun!!

And it was good for me too! It was the beginning of me getting out of this slump that I've been in.

But you'll hear more of that later...don't want to post all the good stuff in one night! ;)

So I'll be back tomorrow with more of my fun weekend adventures, including a couple new pics of me...with a new look.

And even with all the play (and there was lots of play this weekend, both kid play and grown-up play), I even managed to get some cards made too, so there will be some of those posted as well, so make sure you check back soon...you never know what you may see! :D