Sunday, September 28, 2008

enough

So today is sunday which is synonomous with church days. I am always late even though I wake up at 7 dress the boys by 8 and then i am showering and getting ready then next thing i know the baby wants to be fed, my makeup isnt done and its like 945 and church starts at 10. The boys are running around like mad and i have just had ENOUGH!!! cant they just sit still and wait? cant they just watch some cartoons? cant the baby want to eat at 9 so that i would have more time? and of course now i need to change his diaper. UGH its enough to drive a sane woman mad.
Then there is church. Today went well all boys behaved decently. You know, no loud screaming or fighting, the baby played quietly. And the rest of church was smooth sailing, i enjoyed my lessons and learned something which is always nice. And my husband was there which made it so easy.........
By the time we get out of church and have fed everyone its like 2pm i send everyone down for a nap and proceed to lay down when of course, the baby wakes up..... i feed him and put him back down and now its 4. By which time Brody is up. My husband takes pity on me and sends me to bed only to wake me up an hour later because Brody has a fever.... Have i mentioned how busy sundays are?
then its dinner time and bath time and bed time and mommy/daddy time and then mommy time... which is usually mommy's bedtime....
The thing to rememeber is :it was a good day, we were spiritually fed, and we were together as a family.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Basement day

I thought it would be a lazy day, as i have already stated repeatedly. Then i remembered that it was basement day. we have had a leak in our basement and with things the way they are in missouri we had a tons of opprotunities for pool parties curtesy of the leaks in the basement. so a few friends from church helped my non handy handy man husband break upo the cement in our floor and fix the pipe that was stopped up... apparently our tree likes to grow its roots in the pipe. hence all the water on my floor, it couldnt drain because of the roots. so they fixed that, GREAT, but then everyone got busy, and for a few months we have had an open trench in our floor. Well today they are cementing it in. Which means lots of noise and men grunting down below.... and of course its hard to be lazy when there are others working so hard nearby..... so i guess i will get to my chores.... but i dont want to!!!!!

ritneour parade

so today was a lazy day. At least i feel very lazy. Was woken up by brody, naked from the waist down. apparently that is the style these days. Then remembered that my pal linda said there was a parade today. didnt want to go but since the parade last year was tons of fun, ie candy galore, i decided to saddle up the monkeys and walk on over to linda's street to grab candy that was being thrown from all the schools in the ritneour school district. Brody was super slow on the uptake he would get distracted with a piece of candy while there were tons getting snapped up by his brother and the voelkels. luckily the older kids realized what was happening and made sure to drop a candy or two in his bag every time they got one. the result was now brody has a lunch paper bag full of candy and a random frizbee and pencil. He also got pegged a few times by some tootsie rolls. Boston was just excited to chase after any candy he could find and Brynden was trying to steal Brody's candy bag from his stroller seat. apparently the green and orange beads we had given him were no fun anymore.

then i come home and realize that it will be far from a lazy day after all.....

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