Sharing

I do try hard to teach my kids to share. With everyone being the same age it becomes really important that they share (especially with the girls' clothes.) However, there are times when it just goes a little too far and I have to be a little more clear about what I mean. For example, here's Abigail sharing too much....




And believe it or not I had to stop her from eating it afterwards!! There's no telling what's going on when I'm not looking.

Really?

I could be wrong, but I think maybe he's bragging!!

New look

Kirsten has been buggin me to cut her hair. They're getting old enough now that I hate to be the one to cut it but she didn't want to go to someone else. I finally caved and cut it for her. In order to try to get it even it's a little shorter than what she wanted (but not much). She seems to be happy with it.




As a matter of fact, I had it fixed all nice and cute on Friday and she took it down as soon as she got to school. Grrr!! She's only been doing that since she was about 2! Today I didn't even bother to fix it. It's just not worth the time it takes if she's just going to take it down. (insert eye roll here).

What a week!

This has been a crazy week and I'm just pooped. On Monday night, the kids and I headed to Houston. My father had surgery on Tuesday morning so I wanted to be there for that. He had to have a tumor removed from one of his kidneys. At first they wanted to remove the whole kidney but instead were able to remove the tumor and some tissue around it. Everything went well and he's back home now (got to go home on Friday.) :0)

We drove home Tuesday night and got home late. I let the kids sleep in a little on Wednesday before waking them and getting them to school.


That made Wyatt happy.

Then of course Friday was the Valentine parties at school and I had to make cookies for each class. I actually finished those up on Friday morning.

And, to top it off we're in the process of moving all of our old files to a storage building. Heavy lifting on top of everything else. Sheesh! lol

Where does she get this.....

Some of the classes at school are having Valentine box decorating contests. Abigail decorated her box like a monkey. You put the valentine's in the opening in the heart.




Addison decided to make a bunny out of her box. She was busily working on it the other night for quite some time. Then she came to me with her completed project, beaming with pride.

Here it is....



What's that? Where do the valentine's go? you ask. Well, here of course....



Yes, right there under his fluffy little cotton tail!!

WHY????!!!

This is the evil nemesis that threatens my very sanity!




Head lice!! Again!!!!! Wyatt came home with it. He was complaining that his head itched so I combed through it with my trusty super hero lice eliminating comb. I found babies and immediately treated his head, sent him to wash his hair (again), and cut his hair off short. I went through everyone else's hair and did all the things that you do to get rid of the evil critters. I feel good at this point.

Then yesterday I comb through Addison's hair again (hers is the longest) and they're back! GAAH!! Kirsten had a couple too. Abigail and Wyatt still clear (thank goodness).

One of them came home with lice in 2nd grade. It took a full freaking year to get rid of them. Every time I would get them gone, some kid at school would come share his/her new litter. The nurse at the school told me (when I was whining because I was trying so hard to get them gone) that the problem was all of the parents that don't do anything about it at all. Can you even imagine? Having little bugs crawling around on your children, biting them, and not doing anything about it? Ugh!!

Anyway, they're back and I'm just sick about it. *sigh*

A total compliment

As I've said before, every Friday morning Dax & I have breakfast at the little cafe in town. We've been doing it for quite some time now and have gotten to know most of the other 'regulars' in there. It really makes for a nice family atmosphere. Well, yesterday morning one of the other men in there said hello and asked how we were. You know, the usual stuff. Then he said that it was really neat to see us in there each week because we always look so in love with each other. How cool is that? I was just telling Abigail earlier in the week that our family was rich in love. Of course she thinks I'm nuts, but, hey, other people can see it. :0)


I know, it's a bad picture but it's the best I had here. :0)

Boy was she mad....

The kids have recently received their recorders from music class. You know, these things:


And of course, they all have to play with them since they're new. I'm sure you can imagine what it sounds like with four kids walking around all playing these things when they have no idea what they're doing.

When Addison,



got out of the shower she was very upset and yelling at Kirsten. Apparently, Kirsten was playing her recorder so loudly that Addison 'couldn't even hear myself sing in the shower, and you know how much I like to sing in the shower!!' rofl How funny is that? And it's true. You can hear that child singing in the shower from almost any room in the house.

Thankful Thursday

I took this picture in Las Vegas at the Bellagio. I was looking up at the glass flowers on their ceiling. I turned the flash off and turned in a circle while the shutter was open. I took a bunch of pictures like that and I'm sure the other people around thought I had lost my mind. lol Anyway....

Wow! I can't believe it's already Thursday again. Time's flying and I'm not having fun. What's up with that? lol

- I'm grateful for Dax and our marriage. He's so helpful and supportive of me. I couldn't ask for anyone better.

- I'm grateful for Netflix sinse it hat kept me company during these long hours at the office.

- I'm grateful for reconnecting with old friends. I'v missed so many of them over the years and hope that we can now keep in touch.

- I'm always grateful for humor. I love to laugh and love hearing my children laugh. And I think this cartoon is funny.

To Tell or Not to Tell

I didn't do it and I'm admitting to nothing.....that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

- I did not stand outside the bathroom door listening to Addison singing in the shower. I respect her privacy too much to do such a thing.

- I did not put out food for the little mouse that lives behind the shelf behind my desk. I don't want him to live here so why would I feed him? As far as that goes, I didn't sit and watch him peeking out from behind the shelf waiting for a clear shot at the food.

Unfortunately that's all I can think of right now. (I know it's not possible that I've behaved that well.)