Saturday night fun!!

My Friend Jessica lived across the street from me when we lived in Greenfield. I have missed her dearly since our move to New Palestine. I keep trying to get her to move here with me! We got to be good friends when our 8yr olds were just tiny babies! We walked every morning in the summer and spent most of our days together. Her husband works as a project manager for an environmental clean-up company. This really just means he is gone for 3 weeks at a time. Then home for a week. Well, her husband is gone, and so is mine!! We decided to have a sleep over! What fun it was. The kids played all afternoon long. Took some baths and went to bed! They really went to bed! No fussing or arguing! Can you believe it?

Tomorrow is a big day!

Yikes!! Where did the week go??

Today is Friday! I worked all day long! No, really, I went to the hospital and put in my 12 hours then came home to a huge mess!!! MeMaw watched the kids for a couple hours after they came home from school. She brought fried chicken, pancakes, and purple slurp(aka grape soda)!!! Oh! Did I mention the pancakes were chocolate chip? I think the cocoa was the only fruit/vegetable they received tonight. But, they survived, and know they are loved by many!! I must now get some rest. I am pooped!!!

This is the Day!

This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.

Today was like so many in the recent past. NO SCHOOL! Again. So, What will we do? Rejoice and be glad God has given us another day!!

We went to the gym again today. This time to play in the kids area. They had fun I'm sure. Then off to Sam's club. Apparently, the kids like to eat food, and they reminded me we had none at home. But, what a blessing that trip was. They eye doctor was not busy and I decided to act upon an idea God had given me.

You see Grace is having some difficulties with reading. She is improving everyday. One day while we were talking about her school work, we discussed what the words looked like to her while she was reading. "They kinda get jumbled around. I read the same words twice." I too remember having this difficulty. I didn't get glasses until I went to college. It was a whole new world!!! I suddenly enjoyed reading!

Well, I spoke with the doctor and asked her to check her again. This time too look for an astigmatism. Wouldn't you know it, she does have one popping up on us. With that, I decided it was worth the $50 and get the glasses, however slight it may be. I hope it helps.

We packed up and went to MeMaws for dinner. Pizza, Cail's favorite. We also played some board games and did a puzzle. It was fun.






Then off to MOPS. It was Coffee Shop Night. What fun. We listened to some music by Josh Meyer and Rob Doyle. Of course we talked and drank some yummy drinks and ate some nice pastries.


Home at last. Good thing we have a 2hour delay in the morning. It is almost 1000pm already!


Good Night my Love

Mama

Here's our day in a nutshell!

It all started with a phone call at 0515am. "New Palestine Elementary classes have been canceled today due to weather." Mama slept in!! I was aroused by two children at 0715 who were worried about not getting up in time. Who knew they loved school so much. So instead of getting ready for school, we just took our time and relaxed.

We started to venture out to the Children's Museum. That was quickly rerouted to just lunch, bowling at Family Fun and Fitness and an early team practice for Grace.

After dropping her off, the boys went sledding, and played Wii with the neighbors.





Ellie took a long nap. Awakening just before our return trip to get Grace!



Grace is working on her Level 6 routine. She has only worked these routines for about 5 weeks. She is ready to compete on Sunday they tell me! Who would have known. She just has to score a 31 and she will move on to level 7 for next year.



She did not feel well toward the end of practice. But she still gave all she had! What a trooper!!




Can't wait to see what blessings tomorrow will bring!

Only 20 more days till we pick Glenn up after his trip around the world. Really, his flight pattern will take him 22000 miles around the world. I am so very jealous.

Mama

Why I Haven't Bought New Laundry Baskets

Over the past 12 years of marriage I have gone through about 7 laundry baskets. Currently we are down to one! I have had this basket since college. It is a trooper! Hard plastic, stiff, ruff and tumble. Well built. Since technology has advanced, the structural durability has decreased. Yesterday, I broke down and bought three new ones. But, here is why I haven't bought them before!

100th Day of School

Today was the 100th day of school. Can you believe the school year is more than half over? How quickly it goes. The kids have really grown this year. Grace has brought her reading level almost up to where it should be. Cameron is learning to take it slow and get it right the first time. Cail has learned his Kindercore words, now working on Snoopy 220! Ellie has improved her spelling, writing, and pretend play.

Cail Counted out 10 sets of 10 Cheerios and made a necklace to wear today. He promptly ate it upon returning home from school today!

My Little Homemaker

This is Ellie. She is an amazing gift from God. She has her own style and definately her own way of doing things. She really likes domestic activities. She likes to cook, sew, and best of all scrub the sink and put the dishes away!! Can you believe it? But she sure is cute doing it!!







Watch out! That tower just might fall over!


Whatever!


Now, let's see who we can call!




She LOVES fried chicken too!