life … as it is

Girls Dancing
Boy’s light-sabering
such is life around here.
if it’s too cold to light-saber on the tramp, they use the living room.

Prayers from the tots:
Truman: “Please bless mom to smile lots.”
Maxwell: “Grateful I can be a ‘choose the right’ kid.”
Truman: “Grateful Heavenly Father can make us be good.”

Liza – “Big Chicken”
this girl loves when we have bites of chicken.
She must be a growin’ because she will eat so much.
Her way of asking for a lot is “Big Chicken!!”

Tru: “I am easy at that game.”
Instead of saying “that game is easy for me”.

Maxwell: “Asked & Answered”
a pinterest tip to help your kids stop pestering you with the same request over and over
Max: “Can I play with Jack?”
Mom: “No, not today?”
Max: begging… pleading…
Mom: “You asked. I answered. End of discussion.”
Max: begging… pleading…
still working on this principle with this kid.
We might get this parenting thing by the time we’re … oh, like 90.

Picnic @ the Park
Last Monday we had a day off of school for teacher training.
Wasn’t up for much, but the weather was actually supposed to be semi-warm.
But if the sun isn’t out and it’s breezy, 55 doesn’t seem warm at the park.
So – we headed to Krispy Kreme donuts to redeem “A” report cards for free donuts.
Tasty treat!
Then a maniac mother decision to take 5 kids to Target to buy Max new Sunday shoes.
Never take Eliza into the girlie-girl shoe section. She wants to try on every sparkly shoe there.
Finally… lunch time…
picnic at the park
the sun came out and kids even took jackets off.
what kiddo doesn’t love freedom of playing at the park?
The trick is finding a park that the big kids and little kids both like.
(and a park with shade and bench for mama)
Tru rocked the monkey bars too! He’s growing up, I guess.
It was fun to have a lazy-ish sort of activity with no pressure to keep kids in line or quiet (at a museum, etc).

We might just spend all summer having picnics at the park.

Then a few days later, it snowed. Tru was so delighted and acted like it was the first snow of season.

So then we made pasta salad to delight Hannah. Love the color … and veggies!

Let’s see… somewhere in there Jimmy had a conference.
He was gone 4 1/2 days.
We lived!
I barfed…
from changing poopy diapers… to emptying garbage… to doing dishes… to coughing… to brushing teeth.
But we lived!
And were so grateful when Jimmy got home.
Single parenting is not my strength.
He showed the kids pictures from his trip to Las Vegas.

Pregnancy Update:
15 weeks.
Starting to feel a bit better.
whenever I say that I end up upchucking everything.
But there is always hope.

Anyhoo… there is a small smidgen of our life.
I need to update Abe’s pinewood derby…
and spotlight Hannah’s upcoming Eleanor Roosevelt Wax Museum Report.

someday…