5:45pm can not come soon enough.
friday afternoon homework is dragging & i’m not sure who will be more excited when it’s finished – sailor or i!
i don’t think i can handle one more question for another piece of paper. yet the lopsided snowman standing next to colorful christmas trees they are drawing on those pieces of paper are slaying me with their darling-ness so i keep saying sure, one more each time they ask.
at one a.m. last night i was thinking i’d rather chad be crying & fussy during a nap time than during my nights sleep (or lack thereof!) but what do you know …. this afternoon during his fussy nap i wasn’t convinced.
he’s teeth are bothering him, i’m pretty sure ….
i can’t even believe i’m typing that as i hate that line for a fussy baby. oh it’s teeth – like that is the only forever reason a baby is allowed to cry or fuss.
i do have to say my mom skills in the midnight hours have improved through the kids …. i am much more patient. i do not flop back into bed hard enough so rex knows i’ve been up for the 27th time, like i used to : )
so all in all chad is reaping the benefits of not being the 1st …. (or 2nd, 3rd, 4th …) kid.
and boys & jeans & rain …. there is way more rain & not enough jeans.
and lest you think i’m on the verge of needing drugs to alter my mental state! let’s assure you that i’m really ok : )
i am so struck right now with this thought – i can show love because God has shown love to me!
i can show love … i can.
i can be patient because He is patient with me.
i can forgive because He has forgiven me.
i can …. anything really, because He has …. everything.
so.
a couple of weeks ago molly made some passing comment about how rex should buy her a blow up snowman.
i totally agreed with her … in a ha, ha, ha sort of way.
fast forward to yesterday when rex said he had to go to home depot & molly wanted to go with him.
jokes on me ….. he bought a blow up snowman & now our yard is just super classy for this holiday season & an almost 5 year old little girl is delighted!
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1. why would you not leave the grocery with a brown bag on your head??
2. he was thinking outside was better than inside.
3. she likes to dress herself, regardless of the hardship to herself.
4. again, her cuteness makes up for her lack of skill
5. he likes to help
6. owl pellets …. youtube that & you’ll have it stuck in your head too.
7. the lunch help
8. how the boys think they should ride to bed every night.
9. her after run morning hot chocolate.
10. watching his brothers play ball
11. a brother playing ball
12. at the polls
13. she likes to hold him more than he likes her to hold him
14. rex was sweating just looking at him
15. their art ….
16. she seriously hopped all the way to school
17. then she vacuumed.
18. then she rang the bell to call the kids
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so, on days when drugs might have helped – lol.
nothing a babysitter & leopard print flats can’t fix … yay for 5:45 : )
happy weekend.
plug in a blow up snowman & enjoy it’s wonder!
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