Relief!!!

Oh life has SUCKED the last week. Wednesday was so wonderful, though. We went to the zoo with Omaha Mama (my cousin) and her two ADORABLE and FUN kids. It was so much fun. We were there all afternoon and the kids did wonderful. None of them really whined a whole lot (of course there were times when one would start up and we would look at each other like "can we really do this??", but hey... that's life with kids!), they ran, they played, they laughed..... it was wonderful!!!

Then yesterday it was just poopy again. I don't even know how to explain it. It was just awful and I didn't know how I was going to make it through. THANK GOD a friend of mine brought her kids out to play. At first I thought that it was just what I DIDN'T need, but it turned out to be phenominal!! She sat my three kids down and had a little chat with them about how much they DON'T help me out around the house and how they treat me when I ask them to do anything. Let me tell you something.... IT WORKED. This morning, the kids and I got up and I started cleaning the kitchen. When I told them that Omaha Mama and Fit for Florida are both coming out tonight, along with a couple other family members, for a going away get together for FFF, they started ASKING ME what they should do to help!!! Can you BELIEVE THAT?!?!? So, they cleaned their rooms, Zack vacuumed, and Addison swept and mopped the kitchen. Granted, the floors aren't as good as I would like. BUT.... I didn't have to even ASK for it to be done. That alone makes it shine like diamonds!! LOL!

So now I have BBQ Meatballs in the crock pot, a clean house, and family coming over soon to have some fun!! Yay for better days!!

tired and crabby

Moreso crabby than tired. I need a break. I need a vacation. I need to get the hell away. Ain't gonna happen. Husband on the road 24-7 and never home these days. Me home with kids that refuse to listen until I start screaming my head off threatening to pack my stuff and move away. I SERIOUSLY CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!! Calgon can't even get me out of this!!!

How could I forget?

Grandma is doing VERY well. She has her next chemo treatment tomorrow and they are very optimistic about it not affecting her this time like it did the last. She then has a scan (I think she said it will be an MRI) on, I believe she said July 18th to see how the chemo is working. It will be a long wait, but I am hopeful and optimistic that it will be good; just like Jacque's will be this week!!

I'm here

I have found that summer with my kids and daycare kids has left me little time (in a way, thankfully) to sit down and blog about our days, even after the kids have gone to bed. I love it when the day ends with a nasty, dirty bathtub that has to be emptied and rinsed midbath so that the kids really do get clean. I love it when they go to bed and literally crash into it, not to move again until morning. I love their little tan lines from playing in the sun all day and the tiny bug bites from the short period before I remember to get the bug spray at night. Ahhhh..... summer.

My sunburn is waning. Although still red, it IS turning tan. And it doesn't hurt as much as it did before. I find now the only time I think OW is when a child is using me as their jungle gym. I can handle that. Just can't believe how stupid I was last week when I got this blessed thing!! UGH!! Hopefully it's gone by Wednesday when we go to the zoo!!

This last week was great, sunburn and all. The weekend involved a house FULL of six children, all from the ages of 7 to 5 months. It was so much fun, I can't even begin to explain it. It's rare that you have that many kids in one place with no tears for 48 hours!

This morning, I was to have daycare kids dropped off at 6. This meant I needed to be up at 5 to shower and have a gallon of coffee before their arrival. (I am NOT a morning person) As I sat here at 6:15 checking emails wondering where they were, I got a flippin text from the mom saying that they wouldn't be here this morning because she didn't feel well. Look, lady.... you could have freakin told me BEFORE I got up and showered and had coffee and all that AN HOUR AGO!!! GGRRRRRRR!!! Ok.... **sigh**..... I digress.......

Uh oh

I just realized I haven't done my 30 things yet. I will get that posted by Sunday night. Have a houseful of company coming to see us starting this afternoon.

I am so flipping fried. I hurt. I mean I REALLY hurt. I am so stupid. Although, not really. I DID use sunscreen. Oh well. Thankfully I am one that burns then tans..... we'll see.

Sun and fun

We were supposed to go to Omaha and go to the zoo today and I postponed those plans earlier in the week because my youngest two kids have had this awful cold that just wouldn't seem to let go and I was afraid that we would get in the middle of the zoo and they would decide they were done dealin'. Well, yesterday they woke up and seemed like they had never even been sick. How do they do that?!?!? Wish I had that power!!! Anyway....

One of my daycare moms called last night and wanted to know if the kids and I wanted to go to Pawnee lake with her and her 3 kids. Sounded like fun, but I would have to wait and see what they looked and felt like when they got up this morning. We got up and they were rarin to go. We headed out to the lake at about 1 and got home at 4:30. It was so much fun!!! The beach at that lake is PERFECT. Not trashy, not full of glass and nastiness on the lake bottom, just wonderful. I am FRIED. And tired. Poor Jenna (my three year old) was so tired that on the way home her eyes were glazed over and she couldn't even snap out of it to talk to me. She is now hard asleep on the couch for what I assume to be the duration of the night. Poor little thing. She had so much fun that she just couldn't stop moving. Zack and Addison, of course, had just as much fun and are both just as tired, but they won't stop for nothin', till Mommy says so at bedtime.


I always say that winter is my favorite season, and I stand by that. However, now that my babies are growing and I can actually go places with them without having to take two diaper bags (#2 and #3 are 16 months apart in age.... there was two diaper bags for about two years....), life is so much more FUN and we are able to do things that my husband and I did as kids, such as camping and going to the "beach".

As my Grandma Shafer says, "Ain't life grand??"

Oh Sweet Jesus.....

We are going to the lake tomorrow. I love the lake. I HATE SWIMWEAR. I AM SO SCREWED!!! I would LOVE to go shopping for a new suit (haven't gotten one in.... well.... maybe 5-10 years??), but me alone in a fitting room trying on suits that I won't look good enough in with three kids there to critique me, yeah, not gonna happen. So, it's off to the lake we go, the kids looking adorable and fun in their swimwear and mommy looking all frumpy and yuck in hers. Maybe I will just have to spend the entire time in the water. There ya go.... in the murky water where no one will see me!!! Yeah!!! That's the ticket!!! :(