A Busy Day

          I am looking forward to tonight when I get to crawl into bed and know this busy day is past me. Today started off with me waking up at 5:15 so I could get a shower in because there is no other way I would get one.  I have all three of the three kids I babysit for coming today, the first one at 6am.  The other at 7a and the last one I picked up on my way home from walking the girls to school.  I am now drinking a cup of coffee and just ate my breakfast.  Gray woke up drenched, his pull-up did not hold all it needed too so instead of me getting to eat breakfast I had to give him a bath.  So now I am sipping my coffee and writing this while the kids are playing peacefully around me.  I better hurry and finish because it won't last long.  

          Today is a big day for the girls because I am letting them walk the 4 1/2 block from school all by themselves.  I am a bit nervous, but I thought today would be a good day to try it so I won't have to wake three sleeping kids from there naps to go and pick them up.  We have been practicing and I am sure they will do fine.  I told Havens teacher this morning and she is so sweet, she said she would wait a little bit to leave after school and drive the route they will be walking just to make sure they are okay.  She is such great teacher!

          I am making nachos and applesauce for dinner for Steve and the kids because as soon as the 2 extra kid's leave around 5:30 I have to jump in the car and drive to another town where I will be doing a pampered chef party at 6:30.  I am hoping the kids nap okay so I can get my stuff ready while they are sleeping and take a chance to change my cloths and look in the mirror to make sure I don't look to scary! or like I have been chasing after 4+ kids all day.  

    I am sure the day will fly by and tomorrow will be lots better.

A Great Saturday

What a nice relaxing, rainy Saturday we had today. We all slept in. Its nice to finally have kids at an age where they wake up on a Saturday and go watch cartoons and let Mom and Dad sleep in. Rylee even got everyone juice in a sippy cup.
We took a drive to New London which was about 30-40 minutes away to find a spot along the Wolf River to watch the Sturgeon spawn. If you have never seen a sturgeon before they are amazing! They are a prehistoric fish that can get really huge and they are a little freaky looking. Anyway they swim up along the shore and lay their eggs along the rocks then the male fish come along and fertilize them. It was neat because we were able to get a very close look at them and we saw some very big ones. Its weird to see a fish that is right in front of you that is larger then your 8 year old (in a fresh water river). In the winter they spear them through a large hole in the ice on a lake just south of us. This winter a woman speared one as large as her. Don't ask me how she got it out of the water without falling in.
The kids had a great time and it was fun to see there excitement when the fish started splashing.
Enjoy the video of the action...

Hi

Okay, this is my first post.  I am excited and hope to keep up with it so all of you can keep up to date with the happenings of this crazy family.   I will try to post lots of pictures and fill you in on the comical things that the kiddo's say and do.   I may post some yummy recipes that I try and my family likes.  My sister Marti does this a lot and I really appreciate it.  So I hope you all enjoy reading this as I do taking a little ME time to write it.

 

All dressed up for Easter.

Gray on Easter Sunday!