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For Today...Monday Evening, September 29, 2008

Outside my Window...night

I am thinking...that it is strange both my babies fell asleep by 8:30pm

From the learning rooms...Joseph's dreams, eyeball art, apples and skip counting

I am thankful for...the Army paying for Brian's college degree

From the kitchen...cooking special foods for Rosh Hashanah tomorrow

I am wearing...blue jams

I am STILL reading...Stepping Heavenward, The Power of a Praying Wife and bio on the Adams' (Hey, I have six little ones...I read for 3 minutes here, 5 minutes there, and very occasionally 20 minutes here...)

I am hoping...my cough doesn't linger with me for weeks!

I am creating...I need to be more creative...

I am hearing...glade plug-ins fan (I know...it's actually quiet here...weird...)

Around the house...the family room needs picked up before we go off to bed, the dishwasher needs started, the coffee needs set up

One of my favorite things...having my hubby home!!!

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...getting back into our routine and grocery shopping ASAP

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you... uh, still haven't figured out how to post a pic at the end of a blog...help!

a story about numbers

Around 7:30pm last night, I put #6 to sleep in his bassinet in our bedroom. Around 8:30pm, I put #5, #4, and #3 to sleep in their bedroom upstairs (Hank the Cowdog on CD). I head to the family room to watch Pride and Prejudice with my grandma , #2 and #1. Around midnight we go to bed. #2 and #1 decide to sleep with me since Daddy is out of town, and I could get LONELY. 

#6 is still asleep in his bassinet next to our bed...zzzzzzzzzz... A little while later, #5 wakes up. He cannot find his beloved papa (his pacifier). I trek up the stairs, locate papa, insert into #5's mouth and head back down to our bedroom. Shortly after I doze off again, #6 awakens, famished. I nurse him in bed, where he falls asleep (me too). All is peaceful for a while...until...#3 is standing at my bedside. He has had a bad dream (Hank the Cowdog is evidently scary). I tell him to climb in bed with us. "Us" now consists of me, #3, #6, #1 and #2. We sleep...zzzzzzzzzz... BUT, soon, so very, very soon, #5 wakes up. He is shouting very loudly for me. Locating and inserting papa will not work this time. I scoop him up and head back downstairs. I plop #5 between me and #2. Before my head hits the pillow, I hear #4's little feet coming down the stairs...thud, thud...thud, thud...thud, thud. He does not even try to get close to Momma. He hurls himself at the foot of the bed, on top of the covers and zonkers.

 

A minute later, Mimi (she does not have a #, she is a doggish-cat), hops onto our bed, looks at me, rolls her eyes, and hops down. I close my eyes. #5 honks my nose. We are not going back to sleep. #3 has no covers. #4 wants chocolate milk. #2 is ready to get up and brush her morning hair.

Good morning glories! So long Sleepertown!

The Simple Woman's Daybook

For Today...Monday Evening, September 22, 2008

Outside my Window...cool, fall, evening air

I am thinking...how silly it is that my grandmother was SOOO excited about the season premiere of CSI:Miami

From the learning rooms...catching up on Story of the World 1 that we didn't get to last year, PLL & ILL, Singapore Math (everything else is on hold because of Grandma Dutchie's visit)

I am thankful for...a healthy 4 month old little baby boy, 16 1/2 pounds and doing great!

From the kitchen...coffee's ready for tomorrow morning!

I am wearing...Brian's old PT uniform

I am reading...Stepping Heavenward

I am creating...memories of seeing my children with their great-grandmother

I am hearing...CSI:Miami on TV, the ceiling fan, the hum of this old desktop computer

Around the house...chocolate milk sippies and blankets spread out on the floor from watching Enchanted all together in the Family Room

One of my favorite things...DVR...NO commercials!

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...volleyball practice and game, ballet class, visiting with grandma, a little school, a little housework, just enough routine to keep the kiddos sane!

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you... uh, still haven't figured out how to post a pic at the end of a blog...help!

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For Today...Monday, September 15, 2008

Outside my Window ...the sun!!! Yay :)

I am thinking...I need to cancel Ben's dr. appt. and go to library and pick up Connor's books for Kindergarten.

I am thankful for...God protecting our families back home in Cincinnati from the storms of Ike.

From the school room...big review Bible/History/Vocabulary test in CTG, starting in Week 9 today, "Ll" Leaf..."I can live and grow in Jesus" in Kindergarten.

From the kitchen...coffee, oatmeal, and chocolate milk...for dinner, I'm thinking LaRosa's spaghetti...Yum, Cincinnati food!!!

I am wearing...my jams still.

I am reading...Stepping Heavenward, The Power of a Praying Wife, a biography on John and Abigail Adams.

I am hoping...things go more smoothly with our school schedule this week.

I am creating...September's Kindergarten calendar (OK, so it's 2 weeks late...)

I am going...nowhere today, just Home Sweet Home!

I am hearing...the washing machine filling and the dryer bumbling, Ben cooing.

Around the house...a puzzle needs put up somewhere safe from destructive little boys, right now it's on the school table.The roasting pan needs cleaned and put away.Our bedroom ceiling fan needs dusted.

One of my favorite things...an email from my homeschooling friend, Naomi just wanting to say hello (not a FWD)!

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...preparing for Brian's absence and our out-of-town guests...Grandma Dutchie, and hopefully Nana.

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...maybe next week when I figure out how to put a pic at the end of a post!

My New Toddler :(

Just a little something to show me that my Wessy Ray-Ray is now a growing, thinking, busy, talking, little toddler...

This afternoon after Wesley woke up from his nap, he was just hanging out in the family room with me and the girls. I was busy putting away the 4th load of laundry and loading the dishwasher for the 3rd time today (no joke) when Wesley came up to me and put his head on my leg. I looked down at him and he held his hand up to mine. "Ahhh, you want Mommy to hold ya, Buddy?" I go to pick him up, he screams, I put him back down. He holds his hand up to me again. I take it in mine. He leads me to the kitchen, walks over to our oven which has the snack cubby above it, and points up at it.

Sooo...I pop some popcorn and make everyone some kool-aid.

I was busy putting away laundry and loading the dishwasher. My baby has been busy growing into a toddler. I am taking the day off tomorrow to play.

"My house may be a mess but my kids aren't. It'll be okay and dirt is patient and faithful." -dhudson


Is it possible that I am so busy doing that I no longer have time to enjoy being? -Wilson

connor's collection

We were in a mad dash to get school going this morning, and for some reason, I HAD to have the boys' room clean beforehand. I WAS ON A MISSION. I ended taking all of Connor's beloved "collection" downstairs. I told him, "Go through it and we are only keeping the important stuff!" Well, we only ended up throwing away a used tissue, gross I know. And used pieces of tape, again, I don't know why he keeps the things he does.

The contents of his "Reds Box" are as follows:

1.A used Homemade Brand, Mr.Redlegs Sundae flavored ice cream container, aka his "Reds Box"...it holds all the other contents listed:
2.a packet on how to increase your PT score from Daddy
3.a Reds sticker from Mamaw and Papaw
4.a picture of a seahorse out of a hand soap bottle
5.the address label from the matchbox Nana and Grandpa sent him (Kylie just threw the matchbox away Saturday...it was quite the ordeal)
6.cards that he's received from all kinds of folks since we've been here in AR
7.his ongoing Christmas List
8.about 10 cards that resemble credit cards (and Brian's OSU ID from Fall 1996)
9.three U.S. Army patches that you sew on your uniform
10.a bracelet from the Zoo trip Aunt Rikki took him on
11.two bookmarks, a Superheroes one from the library, and a yellow fish one he made
12.a broken, blue foam sunvisor he made on our trip down here in June
13.a picture of a fish aquarium that Korinne drew him
14.a bunch of green construction paper dollars (he's obsessed with money and coins)
15.two flat, wooden jets he and TJ colored with markers months and months ago
16.a rock
17.broken sunglasses
18.a newspaper picture of Papaw running the chains at Goshen's first home football game this year
19.a clothespin
20.Five IBC rootbeer caps from Grandpa Gale, I think he's lost a few
21.a pencil
22.a pen
23.a used birthday cake candle from his 6th B'Day
24.a toy Army guy (Daddy)
25.a picture of him asleep with his brother, TJ (who has his arm around him because they had watched Ghostbusters and Connor was scared)
26.a homemade card from his cousin, Joey
27.an old, wetted then dried, smashed toilet paper roll (it looks like a treasure map, like on Goonies)
28.an empty baggie
29.a picture of a shark his sister, Kylie drew him
30.an old, lit match (he calls it a bullet)
31.two empty wallets, a camo one from Grandma Dutchie and a Picture of Cars one from Mamaw and Papaw
32.a picture of Kylie at age 2 with Buddy Boy as a puppy
33.a Jeff Bagwell baseball card
34.an empty plastic picture holder that you put in a wallet
35.his new sunglasses from Mamaw and Papaw

I bet you don't have a "collection" that would even compare!!!