Get ready, get all the kids dressed
Brush hair, put on shoes
Strap each kid into the car
Spend the next ten minutes looking for Sadie’s coat
Let the dog out, feed the cat
And run out the door
Drive 2 minutes and take them all back out again
Then run off to school
Full day of grading, talking, discussing and arranging
Back home, Jake to sleep
Medicine for everyone
Little curious George and then girls to sleep
Day two of no binky during naps
And went pretty well
45 minutes later Jake wakes up crying and coughing
Maybe we should take him to the doc after all
Call the dr, got an appt
Load everyone up and head out
Jake yes on bronchitis 😦
But that wasn’t a big shocker
So then off to pharmacy
Drop off, 15 mins to kill
Chick fil a for fries and nuggets
Back in line for the medicine
Same people in line next to us
Same walrus mustache
Smiled and waved 🙂
Stopped to wash and vacuum the car
Jake finally doesn’t cry during the wash 🙂
Finally home, baths and pjs
Jake to bed fast, not feeling good
Girls night to have a “party”
Choc milk and popcorn
And Afro circus
Jake walked up crying hour later
Girls feed him popcorn
Then he’s ready to go back to bed
Finally bedtime for girls
What a relief!
Jake up crying two hours later
Running a fever…
Rest of the night laying on my shoulder
Medicine every four hours
An hour crying before and after
Fever finally broke
We finally slept for a few hours
Up, dressed, and having scrambled eggs
What day is it again?

Its still in the 90s here 😦
So we are still swimming in the pool 🙂
At some point i really wouldn’t mind some cooler weather but around here that doesn’t hit until mid_october so hey, might as well enjoy it while it lasts
We’ve spent the last week or so being grumpy around here
Things with the business are crazy and we’ve kinda reached the point where something has to change or we might go crazy…
So our new secretary starts tues 🙂
And hopefully that will mean we can stop having to do paperwork until midnight every night….
And that along with a few other changes will hopefully ease things up a little bit….or we might just continue to go crazy….ha ha that’s always still an option….
I think that sometimes things have to drive us crazy…
Because then when we are finally fed up enough, we act and we are maybe more rash than normal and maybe more creative also…
And maybe a little anger and frustration is healthy….
after all, even Jesus got fed up and cracked the whip on some people, right? Sometimes that’s a solution too 🙂
So here’s to being less grumpy 🙂
And here’s to a better week with our new solutions 🙂
Maybe this week will be more of the miracle part of the story and less of the whip cracking 🙂

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But for being a loyal customer,
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Ah Summertime, I am almost sick of you…
We have done a lot so here’s our summer playlist
A list of all the things we have done… well, mostly 🙂

Go to Riverwalk 🙂

Took the Girls to see Madagascar

Played in the Sandbox: BEST. TOY. EVER.
They played in this CONSTANTLY all summer

Played in ANY kind of water available 🙂

Thursday concert at the Marketplace 🙂

Made cement paint (baking soda and corn starch basically)

….to be continued…

So you know how you always hear (and say) that you want to tie your kids up and put them in the closet?
Seems I’ve always heard that sarcastically said by moms I know at the end of crazy days
Sarcastically of course 🙂
So confession time… I actually did it.
Well, I half did it.
I did shut my son in the closet.
For the night.
With a pillow and blanket though? lol…
Call CPS right? Crazy mom….
So here’s the story…
HM had to do another bid near the coast
So came home late Fri and said:
Why don’t we just go stay in a hotel?
Ended up NOT staying in my Fav Hotel 😦
Just because we wanted to get a little closer to the bid
So we stayed at this other hotel
But didn’t get there–traffic etc–until like 11pm
And there were no cribs available 😦
And Jakejake was INSANE.
And frankly so were the girls!
They were so excited to be in a hotel room
That after leaving at 8pm,
Sleeping for a good 2-3 hours
And then getting UP AGAIN at 11pm
It was almost 2am before they crashed again
And Jake would NOT let me rock him, hold him,
Wouldn’t drink a bottle, do anything
He just wanted to run around and play
…and scream… at 1am….
So we took everything out of the closet
Put in a pillow and blanket
Laid him down
And shut the door very fast 🙂
And I stood there and held the door shut 🙂
Then he screamed for a good 5 minutes
And FINALLY (2am) fell asleep
And that ladies and gents, is how you put a crazy Jake to sleep without a crib 🙂

Okay, so the other day I was thinking:
Man, I have been a really slacker blogger lately
I just feel like I have NO TIME!
I guess the 3 extra kids around here are a factor
And then today I decided to do this entry
And realized: wow, we’ve been done a lot of projects

But is that really different than usual?
I mean my husband is just so good at things
It seems like we are always working on a project… 🙂
So here are our recent projects, our official TA-DA! entry 🙂

1.  WALL:
This one has been a long time coming….
Remember this nonsense?

I don’t want to really remember when we actually finished this wall
But it’s been ALMOST finished for um… several  years I think
So here is our FINAL Before and After:
And actually painted the whole thing too:
It really is amazing what a little paint can do 🙂

2. BACK PORCH
the good thing about my painter husband
Is he gets things off jobs for free
So here is a prime example:
We got this cabinet set/bar/sink:
And because we got that now, and because it needed a plumbing hook-up
We moved this table thing we had there, over by the window
Installed another cabinet
And redid the Sandbox with a sheet 🙂
(works much better than that crap black garden paper stuff)
I had to actually clean off table to take this picture
It is rarely empty 🙂
That is our activity center these days and it’s current location is SO much better
So with all those changes, this is our new patio:
Much love 🙂

3. MOTOR HOME
Okay, and FINALLY… well almost….
It still needs new carpet actually
But we have ripped off all the ugly curtains and things
Redone all the walls
Which these pictures do not show 😦
You can’t even tell….
But just trust me it looks SO Much better!
And it even got painted…
But you can’t really tell….
So just take my word for it 🙂

So here are the BEFORES:

And here are the AFTERS:

Still gonna get new carpet I think
And at some point they will put the blinds back up 🙂
And the quilt I made for the bed is like two seconds from being finished 🙂

So there you go 🙂
Don’t you feel better now?
hahahaha….

So what is worse?
Going to your 20 year High School Reunion?
Or going to your husband’s?
Hahaha….
I thought it would be really boring
But I actually had a really good time

We talked to a ton of people
And at our table the ladies were HYSTERICAL
Best quote of the evening:
“Baby, you paid $5 for the food, and $75 for the company…mmm-hmmm”
lol…
And from HM: “We’ll have to make this at home: I had no idea croutons and strawberries went together”

Kinda crazy to hear all the stories
Crazy to see people who last knew each other when they were 18 years old
And now they are all 38 and still just people…
I sat at the table and listened to them all and thought:
These people and this evening is no different than if I went and spent the evening with all my students from school
Only these people are just older and more experienced,
But still just the same people, the same personalities that existed before and always….
Makes me actually excited to go to my own someday
Haven’t gone to any of them yet, but I think I will now 🙂
(both of them I think) 🙂

Also my other thought, prompted by this and by Sadie’s party
(which were the same day btw)
was that we all have so many people who care about us in this life
And I’m not talking about family
Family of course cares
But since we were going to this reunion, I’ve been thinking about my HS friends
And realizing that my BEST real friends in HS
Were rarely the same ones I called my friends
Most of the time my “friends” were some of the biggest retards around
And I don’t know why I didn’t realize that as a teenager
Thinking back I had a TON of good friends and a ton of people who cared about me
And I didn’t even acknowledge them as my Friends.
And has that changed?
I’m not sure that it has?
I think of the people who came to Sadie’s party
And those people are the same people love and support me and my family:
They come to parties, they read this blog, they pay attention to us,
They sit by us at church, they love our kids, they teach them, they play with them
And yet, we aren’t BEST FRIENDS, but why aren’t we?
Why do we so often not acknowledge the best friends around us?
So that’s my thought lately,
Gonna try to pay more attention to and be grateful for my Real Friends
Who are already Real Friends in every way
And who maybe I don’t “count” as my Real Friends
And I should 🙂

That was also the impression I got when HM and I talked about a certain person who DIDN’T go to the reunion
And how despite how much that person THINKS he is alone
He isn’t.
No one is.
He said he couldn’t remember anyone’s name from HS
And yet that’s all anyone did all night was ask where he was?
Funny….
Seems like more and more it seems clear:
We don’t have to deal with being alone
We have to deal with convincing ourselves how alone we AREN’T
🙂
Have a good day friends 🙂
love you! 🙂

Had a great time at Sadie’s party on Saturday!
Thank you everyone who came,
Everyone who swam with us
And everyone who came and visited
So nice to see everyone
And so thankful my daughter has such wonderful people who love and support her
Happy Birthday Sadie!

So you know how every family has it’s own little jokes?
Well lately in our 4-2-1 household
And really our 10-9-4-3-2-1 household three days of the week
There is a standing joke
We sit down at the table, everyone folds their arms for the prayer
And then one person goes “Heavenly Father….hwaah”
(make the throw up noise, how exactly is that spelled anyways?)
And everyone just busts up laughing
I posted it on FB but just in case you missed it:
Kelsey was sick the other day
Threw up like 5 times but didn’t ACT sick at all
So the first couple times I just wrote it off to chance:
We go to the spray park and as I’m getting everyone out,
She pukes on the grass: ALL fruit snacks 🙂
Wow, I thought, no more fruit snacks for that kid! haha…
Later, she pukes in her bed, then outside,
And so I make her go lay down for awhile
But then when we sit down for dinner, she comes running
So whatever, she  had been laying down for like an hour?
Guess she feels better?
So it’s always a fight for who will say the prayer
So the consensus is that since Poor Kelsey is sick
She gets to say it.
So we start to say the prayer
(WE because I have to help her)
Heavenly Father… Heavenly father
Thank you for the food….food….
Please bless I will feel better….pause…pause…
Then she gets this weird look on her face….
And hwoowh… puked ALL OVER
Everything she had eaten now ALL day
(Even though she had already puked like 3 times)
I got the last of it in a bowl, but it was gross
Right there at the dinner table,
in her food, all down  her front
Right on cue… it was classic
And she was SOAKED with vomit right
Looks down at her clothes, and is very distressed:
My clothes! she cries and tries to brush it off
Spraying bits of vomit everywhere 🙂
I think everyone yelled NOOO!!! at the same time  🙂
So we picked her up, dropped her in the sink,
Hosed  her down, got her new PJs and she was banned from the table that night
Puked one more time about 24 hours later and was done.

So fortunately, Kelsey has a good sense of humor 🙂
Because the very next dinner, Chase made fun of her
Re-enacted the whole thing
And she just laughed and they all did it
So funny funny… Dinner prayers and puking… hysterical round here…

900 Blogs
And in honor of that
Wordpress has a little reminder for me:
You have reached your uploaded graphics limit
Better upgrade or you’ll run out of room
Ya right… You really think after 900 posts
And 6 years later
That I’m suddenly worried about the whether I have the standard version or the Pro version?
Ya, don’t hold your breath 🙂
And heavens, I bet I am at my limit
I have 6 years of crap on here, how much space is that anyways???
Can’t you like, store it or something???
So happy 900th blog 🙂
You’ve been a lifesaver more than once
Here’s to the thing that keeps me sane 🙂