More tidbits

Madeline and Leah are so into stickers right now! They will play for hours working on a masterpiece filled in with their shapes that they know how to draw (and are so proud of!).

Leah still likes to color all over her face with markers if she thinks that I'm ignoring her which is sometimes true because sometimes "art hour" is when I'm making dinner.

Grace has her first preschool pageant on Friday and I'm praying that all goes according to plan. She has been difficult to say the least during practice.

Madeline is starting to catch up with Leah in regards to vocabulary and making sentences. I was starting to worry because Leah was so far ahead of Madeline.

Grace, Madelina and Leah are in love with the show Angelina Ballerina ~ It's adorable that they all watch it and then act out what they saw. I love seeing them actually play nicely together!

I'm excited about Christmas for all of the usual reasons but I'm SUPER excited that Matt will be home with us on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day for the first time in 4 years. I will be nervous that he will get forced to work up until he's out of the gate on the 23rd but I'm trying to remain optimistic but also set up a game plan in case he does get forced.

I'm looking forward to seeing my in-laws on Friday. They're coming down for Grace's pageant and she's so excited that they're coming. I hope that Matt will be able to come but again only time will tell.

Accountable

I'm going to attempt to use my blog to be held a little more accountable for working out. I'm hopefully going to post pictures of my progress to help keep me motivated. So here's my first picture. I've been running a lot and have been pretty pleased with my progress as far as distance goes. I'm getting some pain in my shins and think that I may need a new pair of sneakers with more support to help with that.

In other news I have a lot of updating to do to this blog and am trying to get back into the mindset of blogging. I am having my pregnancy blog and the majority of this blog printed into a book and am sad that I fell off the wagon and don't have as many memories and pictures written down. Maybe that will be my New Years Resolution!

Can't

There are so many things that I've wanted to say to so many different people lately but can't for many reasons...I just need to let it out so here goes...

You have left me with zero trust in you and I really don't care to see you or associate with you any more.

I have done so many things for you in the past, you have done exactly 2 things for me through the entire time we've known each other. You constantly put me and my family on the back burner and I'm sick of it.

I think you are an awful parent. You have no desire to put any effort into helping and teaching your children. Here's your wake up call, NO ONE IS GOING TO DO IT FOR YOU! And yes, that means spending actual TIME with them. Playing, reading, crafts, TALKING TO THEM. TV is not a babysitter nor is it a teacher.

I work hard even though I don't work outside of the house. You may think you know what my life is like but you have NO idea.


There...I feel a little bit better.

Our Week

We've had a pretty eventful week. Last Friday Evan was in the Emergency Room for Croup which caused him to have trouble breathing and turn blue. Everything turned out fine and he's back to normal! Everyone battled a cold over the last week. Wednesday I smashed my finger in my car door and ended up back to the same Emergency Room. Not one of my finer moments. Now it's the weekend and we have errands tomorrow, and tons of cleaning to do. I didn't clean much Wednesday or Thursday so I have some catching up to do.

Vacation Rental Warning

If you ever go on vacation on the Outer Banks of North Carolina do not EVER rent from Midgett Realty! They have given us the worst vacation experience. The house we originally rented had live bugs running around on the beds!! And a bed that had no support under it, it was held up with wainescoating cross"beams". We were put in another house, stayed our week and now 2 weeks later are being called with an outstanding balance for the difference in rent between the original "bug" house and the house we were placed in because of an issue with their original rental home.

DO NOT EVER RENT FROM MIDGETT REALTY!!

Flash

Our weekend went by in a FLASH! On Saturday I had gotten up, stopped at Walmart to pick up a gift and gotten Grace to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese by 9:30am. After 2 hours we were Chucked out and had a few errands to do while we were in Downingtown. Part way through the errands a totally exhausted Grace melted down in the middle of a shoe store. I had to practically drag her across the parking lot to the car while she was screaming, "Get away from me!!" "You're hurting me!!" "OWWWWWWCCCCHHHHH". It was not one of our finer moments. And the shoe store just "had" to be right next to Babies R Us where all of the first time parents were staring at us and in whispered hushes to each other saying, "Our child will NEVER, EVER do that! She must be an awful mother!" My response to them...You just wait!!

This week is filled with appointments, 2 school harvest parties ( I got stuck with making the 30 cupcakes, as if I don't have anything else to be doing) and Trick Or Treat on Friday night among all of the normal things. Friday just happens to be predicted as 20 degrees colder than the rest of the week with strong winds. Lovely. I'm still not done the kids costumes, and have no idea where else I can look for the rest of the things that we need. I also just don't want to spend any more money!!! Truth be told, I don't like Halloween. I never have. Yes, I like to see my kiddos dressed in cute costumes but after about 10 minutes of fighting with people to leave this and that alone, I'm over it.

Off to the shower I go...I'm going to try to break my record of a 0.25 minute shower!

Back At It

I haven't had wireless internet in over a year. Sad, I know. Last night I finally got it to work! I'm hoping that being wireless will help me start blogging again.

Twice a month I usually go and get a cheap manicure. It's $30 a month and something that I look forward to doing alone. Tonight I was getting my manicure, relaxing while listening to my iPod, and all of the sudden we heard a very loud thump and felt a vibration. We looked out the window and a car had crashed into the adjoining grocery store! It was an old car that didn't have airbags and the person driving didn't seem to be moving. Luckily the fire company/ems is right around the corner and came very quickly, I hope the drive is ok. I have to say that I was a little angry that my "relaxing" manicure was interrupted by blaring sirens that they didn't turn off after they parked the fire truck.

Evan went on his first field trip today and he had an absolute blast. We went to an Amish pumpkin patch/dairy farm. He got to take a hay ride pulled by 4 mules, lead me through a corn maze and found the way all by himself. I think the maze was the best part for him because he got to decide everything. He doesn't usually get to be the "leader". Grace is usually the dominant one and Evan will follow her lead no matter how much we try to intervene and encourage him to speak up. Evan also got to pick out a pumpkin, which took him a good 10 minutes to decide on which one! He loved getting me all to himself this morning and I ate up every second.

I am trying to make sense of all of my lists of birthday gift ideas and Christmas ideas as well as take stock of what I already have purchased. I think the twins are going to get bikes for their birthdays, and Grace is getting a new bike also. I would like to get the twins a kitchen for Christmas to replace the one that was ruined, which still upsets me and makes me hate this house just a little more. Grace wants an Easy Bake Oven, a Nintendo DS Lite and a Fancy Nancy doll. Luckily my Mother In-Law found the Fancy Nancy doll on sale at the Target near her house and picked it up for me. Those aren't cheap dolls!

I need to call BounceU to see if there is an open spot on Nov 13th for Grace's birthday party. I really want to do something special for her this year. I cannot believe that she's going to be 5!