We have had a very busy week, full of lots of hard work. I must say, at the end of the day, I've been tired! I will also say, having been a night owl my entire life, I might...just might be becoming more of a morning person. Yikes, did I really admit that? Well, the issue is, the kids like to get up early. Well, by early I mean around 8 am. Sometimes if I'm lucky they sleep till 9....if they are extremely tired, 10. And if I don't want to be a tired Mommy all day, I need at least 8-9 hours of sleep. Soooooo....I've been in bed by midnight at the VERY latest, however, some nights it's been 9:30! That has NEVER happened before. I must say, I feel so much better during the day when I'm not tired. I could not tell you a time when I didn't feel tired during the day until now. That's kind of sad, isn't it? I don't drink coffee, so that doesn't help me get going.
Anyway, I've made a few changes that seem to be really helping me a lot. For one thing, since I have more patience and energy during the day, I can get more done during the day with the kids. Cleaning and things that I was having to wait till they went to bed to do. I think they are getting more mature and not into everything either, so that helps. They actually help a lot by doing a few little "age appropriate" chores and such. I am not staying up to do household stuff, if it's not done by 11 or so, it has to wait. If I'm real tired, I just go to bed at 9 or 9:30 once the kids are asleep and figure the house stuff will be there in the morning. I'm not reading as much either. I know reading is a good thing, but I tend to take it to the extreme. I cannot stop when I'm reading a good book. All these things seem to be helping me a lot. Oh, and I'm not on the computer much either-as you may have noticed! Sorry about that. I will try to post more often without getting online to "surf the internet". I tend to get distracted reading blogs and such.
As far as the house goes, Dustin and I painted our bathroom on Monday. We took the kids to Madison to babysit, and spent the day doing home improvements. Our bathroom had a mold problem, and believe it or not, nicotine from the previous owners kept seeping through the paint we had used when we moved in almost 3 years ago. I researched online what to do, and so I bleached the walls really well and then we primed and painted it again. We also patched some holes in the twins' room and painted over some stuff on their walls. I put up their monkey decals and I must say, it was cute. I took pics of course which I'll load as soon as I get a chance. They love their monkey room! There is one behind the door and they think that's neat. They keep saying "there's a monkey behind the door!" every morning, like I forgot overnight-hehe. I need to get them some comforters and sheets, but we just do stuff as we can. I had comforters and sheets but they were toddler bed sized....the new beds are twin sized.
I have also been canning and freezing stuff like crazy. This week has been all about tomatoes! I've done two batches of salsa and two batches of tomato soup. I've also made up a bunch of breakfast burritos for the freezer for Dustin's breakfasts. I also made popsicles for the kids-these are so easy! I just put fruit in the blender, add juice if needed, and add yogurt. The kids love them and they are really good.
In other family news- our ban on eating out as a family appears to be lifted for the time being. Keep your fingers crossed it stays that way! Last week for our anniversary, Dustin, the kids, and I went out to eat Mexican for our anniversary. It was really nice. We sat on the opposite side of the restaurant from everyone else, and we were the only ones! It was so nice, like we were at a private restaurant and it was great. The kids did great and it was a wonderful way to spend our anniversary. Dustin cleaned my car out for me and so he doesn't want any eating in the car. So, that means we had to eat IN if we were eating out. I know everyone has bad days, but hopefully the kids will continue to do well.
Henry is officially in his room now. I switched him Sunday night. He's doing good with it. I must admit-our room feels so empty now! I can't say it enough-he is THE happiest baby EVER! My twins were great, but he is just over the top happy. Everyone comments on it.
I've been hooked on the Olympics. The kids are enjoying it too. Carson got upset today because he wanted to watch "the pool" and they had switched to something else. Emilynn says she wants to do "nastics". Dustin's not into watching them, just me and the twins. I love watching all sports, and I think the kids are going to take after me. They bring me their kiddie bag chairs and tell me they want to go to the ballgame.
We had a playdate with cousins Morgan & Dylan at their house this week. It was a lot of fun as usual. They love Morgan and talk about her all the time. We are going to see her today for a little while at Nanny's. Hunter will be there, so all of Nanny's great-grandkids will be there. Dylan is my buddy-he's a sweetheart and a teddy bear!
We went and swam with Hunter last week a couple of times-the twins love his cool pool slide. It does look like a lot of fun...but I haven't tried yet.
Well, I am off to start our day. I have a few weekend projects to do-I still have some tomatoes on my counter, still have some bathroom stuff to put back in the master bath, and Carson got a new dresser from Nicole's yard sale...so I need to get his clothes switched over. There's always lots of projects going on around here. I am never bored, that's for sure!
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