I know I'm losing ya'

I know my little blog fans are dwindling away.... I swear though I'm not just a hypochondriac....I really have been sick. I'm aware of how often I get migraines but other than than I consider myself to be pretty healthy. Weird stuff going on in the last month or so.
About a month ago I was having my "normal" migraine and had to throw up (again normal), well I just kept throwing up for the next 17 hours. I've had stomach flu and food poisoning before but nothing like that, I was beginning to think I had appendicitis. I could have made a whole blog about that but then the next week I get sick and that episode is just a distant blur. It started with a sore throat for a few days then what I think was the flu. I literally did not get out of bed at all that next weekend. Then most of it went away and I was left with a sinus infection and horrendous coughing fits. Resigned to the fact that it had been over 2 weeks and I wasn't going to get better without medication...I finally went to the doctor. He told me I had a sinus infection at the very least and most likely pneumonia. Great! I am on the upswing but I am still not feeling 100%. I also feel like I've been out of touch for the past month or so. Sure I've been physically going through the motions of every day life: driving the kids to school and classes, cooking, laundry and on the computer checking e-mail. I have found that being sick was a cure for my Insomnia. I've been to bed and actually sleeping every night hence another reason why I'm behind on most other things.

Mia's birthday was last Friday and she had her first sleep over. I will post some pictures soon and get back to my regular "blogging format". It just doesn't feel the same posting without pictures. Anyway, I had to share this conversation during the car ride home from Mia's school last Thursday.
Mia: Nicholas wasn't in school today. (Nicholas is who Mia says is her boyfriend and she has consistently stuck by this for months now)
Me: Oh, is he sick? That'll be too bad if he's gone tomorrow too and miss your cupcakes.
Mia: I really hope he's at school tomorrow because he's the one I want to invite over for the sleepover.

Mind you I had told Mia "maybe" she could have a friend for a sleepover for her birthday. Since I had been sick I hadn't any plans for a sleepover, party....anything.

Me: Ummmm, well boys can't come over for sleepovers. (EVER!) Only girls.
Mia: What???! Why?
Me: Because that's the way it works. Only girls can come over for sleepovers.
Mia: Well, can he come to the party? (Party???!!!)

Now we're pulling into the driveway and the conversation is dropped. When Mike comes home I fill him in on our conversation and how I feel like we've really dropped the ball. I told him, "she's expecting something and she's going to be pretty disappointed there's no party. We need to invite someone over for a sleepover."

Now I'm racking my brain because it's Thursday night and I don't really know the girls in her class that well (she changes who she likes best at school daily except for Nicholas of course) and my friends from Moms and Tots that have daughters her age have told me in prior conversations that their daughters aren't' ready for sleepovers yet. Thank goodness for Lainee. Rachelle (Lainee's mom) is a friend of mine from our Moms and Tots group and Lainee goes to Mia's school (just a year older). Thinking Lainee being a year older is probably ready for sleepovers I log onto Facebook to see if Rachelle's on. Yeah! she is! We chat and a sleepover is set. Mia is very excited and I haven't totally failed on the birthday celebration.
Mia does question Mike over dinner though:
Mia: Dad, how come boys can't come over for sleepovers?
Mike: Because those are the rules. Boys stay with boys and Girls stay with girls.

So clear right? Where's the parenting manual for questions like these?