MOMS

My Mom is down for a couple of days, and can I just say that I love having my mom here. It is so nice to have her here to go shopping with. Pick up thomas when Alyssa is napping, and of course just to sit and have coffee and conversation with. I think that I will keep her and poor Dad will just have to adjust. But then he would have to live on toast and sandwiches and that wouldn't be nice either. HMMM... Well okay, she can go home to him on Wednesday. That is when he is flying in from Holland, which he spent three weeks there with Kathy. They had a wonderful time, and the Eiffel Tower is really high, I am told!

Wow! It has been a while.

For the whole weekend, we were up in Sackville at a hockey tournament. Micah's team lost every game but oh well. They played pretty good the last game. So we stay over Saturday night to be with Esther and chuck and Alyssa, is sick. And I mean gross sick.

On Sunday we return home, but not before Mike and the boys go to the Acadia Vs. NHL oldtimers game. Alyssa and I shop for a while but I am not feeling that great and just want to go home. Mike tells me to get healthy, because I am always complaining that I am sick. WELL, in the middle of the night, I am so sick, that I can't stay out of the bathroom, then Thomas comes up, runs into my bathroom door and pukes all over the floor. Try cleaning that out of carpet at one in the morning. He then proceeds to sleep on our floor, and throw up every hour. He stays home all day and sleeps all day. I mean all day. Woke up and six at night, and went back to sleep, at eight-thirty. Alyssa, who we thinks is better, is laying with me on our NEW WHITE couch. See where this is going? Yes she spews orange juice all over me and the couch. What am I more concerned about? Yes my couch, and her of course. She ends up sleeping with me last night as well. Both of the kids still throwing up. Thomas is home from school, again today. And Alyssa is now curled up in is arms sound asleep. On the plus side, I am feeling better and even showered and everything. I paid Micah to stay home yesterday and look after Nick, so I could lay on the couch and sleep. He earned his money as he looked after Nick, Alyssa, and me. Gotta love older kids!

Another day, another dollar?

Does the whole wednesday thing mean that you get to take a day off, or that you should really clean your house? I want the day off. Every time I turn around, there is toys in my "no toy" zone, more laundry to do, and dishes galore. I am just scared that if I stop today, the work tommorow would be far too great. Course, I could stop blogging, and get to work, but...

ARGH!!!!!!!

What a morning! It started pretty good at seven thirty with the dog coming to wake me up. Alyssa slept from eight to eight which was great. Thomas had hockey at eight forty-five, andso off we were. I decided to take the van and let Mike take the car and than trade when he took Micah to Canning. Turns out, Thomas' practice was in Kingston. This I found out after taking him to Greenwood. Call Mike he says its in Kingston( would have been nice to know beforehand). AND HIS PRACTICE IS TWO HOURS LONG!!!! So cold.
ANyhow, Mike comes to take the van, and is gone for about five minutes before I realize he did not pass me the keys to the car. Can I just say that it is a good thing I am friendly and know quite a few people. One man drove us home, while another lady loaned us her car seat for Alyssa. Because who knows where the extra set of car keys are. Not me.
Morale of the story. If you want something done right, get up earlier, plan ahead, and don't ever trust your husband to give you all the info or the keys.

CAN YOU GUESS?

Guess where we are, and do you think Alyssa's tired of it yet? Only seven more months to go!!

A Sweet Sleep

So, I always knew that Alyssa liked to sleep. But the most amazing thing has happened. The other night around 8:30, Michael said, "Alyssa, time for bed". She got up kissed her father, took my hand, led me to her crib, and tried to climb in!!!! I know... my boys were never like that. I think they screamed "NO".

So then last night, we were out late grocery shopping, and after we got home and I changed her into her jammies, I thought she might like to play for a couple of minutes. Nope, she got up waved for daddy to come here, and showed him her crib to put her in. Right to sleep like a little angel. AHHHHH finally a good child to put to bed.( thomas is sitting here reading this as I type, so I have to rub it in a little bit. hahaha...

These are pictures that my wonderful sister gave to me for my birthday. She saved to a cd every pic she has taken of me and my family since getting her camera. Over 2 hundred I would say. What A GREAT present. Along with a photo album of ones that she had done off. These are some great shots of my kids and the one of my whole family.

Kathy

This is Kathy in her tan cams, and outside the camp. She called and is doing fine. Looking really skinny, but that comes with eating everything out of a box. She is with her friend Joe.

It's another beautiful day here in Greenwood and for that we can be thankful. I am thankful because I left my laundry out on the line last night and now they can dry again from the semi-frost we had last night. Also Thomas has a race today in Middleton and it is always nice to have great weather for that.

Alyssa and Nick are acually starting to play together now which is nice. She doesn't really want to share her toys, but she does because I force her too. Luckily, he wants to play with mostly cars and trucks and the such. But it is kind of cute to see them chasing each other around and laughing. It took almost a month to get to this.

Anyhoo, off to bake some cookies and such.

Things to give thanks for

Taking a hint from others...

Although it is a dreary day with the rain and such, I can be thankful for.

1. A roof over my head, ( and a nice roof at that)
2. A dryer to dry my clothes in
3. A full well so that I can do laundry
4. Raincoats so that my kids don't get wet on the way to school.
5. Nice furry blankets to curl up on the couch with and read.
6. The Bible for something good to read.

Happy Sunday

For the first Sunday in a long time there is no hockey. This is soooo great, but the bad thing is that it is only October 1st. So what to do. Take a nap, watch some football which I love and relax. Oh yes and change the living room around, but I can't get it the way I want it. Help!

And it is not my birthday! That would be the 7th. I refuse to turn thirty before I absolutely have to. And that is not until 11:45, Saturday morning. Honestly, where has the time gone. Not that I would want to do it again for anything. There has been important lessons learned, that I would no want to do all over again. Getting through the first five years of marriage for one thing. YIKES. God is good and we are still together and acually still love each other. Most of the time. :)

So I'm on line reading about Kim's blond moment and the burning of pots and food and so on. Enjoying my time on line, and seeing how everyone is doing. I honestly only took me about half and hour. I go upstairs, and smell something funny. I TOO WAS BURNING MIKE'S MEAL!!!!!!!!!!!! His poor little cheese pogo's were a nice black color. Oh well, he can eat a sub :) It was the smell that I minded. Luckily, they were just in the toaster oven so when I get around to it, it shouldn't be to bad to clean up. Ah, the ironies of life.
Kathy called and she is going fine over there. Gor her first package from me. Yes, she finally got her flea collars!!!!!!!!!!

AND I THOUGHT...

So I thought that i had been sick with a cold for quite a while. I took Alyssa to the doctor, and he checked us out. Turns out I have pnemonia(?), and both Thomas and Alyssa have lung infections. I would just like to say sorry to anyone that I came in contact with!!! Please don't get sick! Now we are all on antibiodics, and we all know how fun that is. I got a new puffer to which I like. My life line to breathing half of the time lately.
Anywho, can't wait to feel better.

So, except for Micah the whole family has been sick with this cold. Thomas is scaring me because he is coughing so much. I have given him my puffer a bunch of times and that seems to be helping a little bit. Alyssa is to young for that, but her poor nose won't stop running. Last night was the first time she slpet through the night in four nights. Shes not even too crancky today.

Took Max in to get the old snip snip. Now just to convince Mike that he should too... except now I am babysitting a three year old boy and thinking that four kids would be nice. Mike and I said that we should have had one in between Thomas and Alyssa. The seperation is great and all the kids got along great.

Well, other then the colds and stuff, my life has been pretty boring. I think I am going to start working out again, maybe pilates which makes me feel toned and wonderful.

The Countdown is on

One more day till school starts! I am kind of excited, and kind of sad. I do love having my kids around, but having a schedule is nice too. Set bedtimes, arrival and departures, etc...
Micah is going to a new school, and I think he is kind of scared, even though he won't admit it. He is way too cool.
Last minute pickups are getting done tonight, and I am also getting pictures back from Walmart. I can't wait.

What a BEAUTIFUL Day

Well, so far it has been a beautiful day. I have done four loads of laundry and hung them all out to dry. the last two loads should be done by the time we are home from baseball.
I only had the two girls today, and of course my own, so it was pretty queit in the house today. The boys went swimming at a friends house and Alyssa and Jenna napped. Ah... the peace.
Now of f to the ball field for a game between the peewees and us. Should be interesting. Thomas is playing again so he is happy. But I do lose my Alyssa chaser. Ah, well, I am the mother!!:)
I think that I should coach next year and Mike should have to chase her. He will see why I am so tired at the end of a ball game. No sittin around for me.
Back to the beautiful day. Love the sunshine and cooler temps.

OOPS

Well our tournament is in Middleton not Berwick. OOPS.
Yikes sick of unps who are clearly homies. All the coaches of the other teams are going to put in a protest it was so bad. Two teams lost the same way. Way ahead in score until the last inning and the ump would not call a strike and the players of the Middleton team walked in and won. It was disgusting to watch and sad for the players on both teams when that happens.

Baseball

So this weekend, and I can't believe it is already here, we will be spending in Berwick for the most part. So if any of ya'll want to see some action packed baseball ( not really) come and watch us! Thomas is playing on Micah's team this weekend and is really excited about it. It will be the first time he has ever played with a team, and I hope he will do good. He does well in sports so I shouldn't worry too much.
Anyway, drop by, though I don't know the hours yet. We will of course be going to Benson's as that is the treat when we go to Berwick. Yummy ice cream!
I have to go exercise to get in shape for all the food.

Katherine the Mighty Part II

Well, I received a phone call from Kathy saturday night around midnight, which would have been seven in the morning where she is at. She said she was doing good and that she had to go out and "play". I didn't think much about it until I saw the news the next day. I have been a news junkie for a while now, but now even worse.(Kathy hates that I leave the new on and it repeates itself at least every halfhour!). Anyways, she is obviously all right, but with the news the next day, I felt sick to my stomach all day thinking that she had probably been there. She is still my little sister, and I would do anything to protect her.
On the funny side when she called, she asked me to send her flea collars for around her boots to keep them away as they are driving everybody crazy and that seems like the best solution!!!!
Stay brave, stay safe Kathy and we love you here.

Old Friends

So, yesterday, I went to a baby shower of an old friend. I t was so great to see people that I haven't seen in years. Renewing old friendships has got to be one of the best parts of life. How many kids? Married? Everything that is going on. Just this time we have to stay in contact with each other. We can't keep having babies in order to see each other. Although some of you should have a couple more!
Anyways, it was nice to talk of old times, memories, and the current events in everyone's lives. Come visit, read my blog and start up you own so we can stay current. It is great.