Ally and her latte moments
I love pictures of wildlife. The love of a mother transcends everything in this world. No matter where you look in nature you will see it if you look closely enough. I always warms my heart to see these kinds of pictures. I will probably post more later. I found a whole bunch of them.
I think I will make an easy dinner tonight. We are going to have steak sandwiches and french fries. The kids love them, especially the fries and I don’t have a lot of clean up. I have a lot of work to still get done, so easy is the word of the night. I might even allow my eldest son to help make the Steakums steaks while I do the fries. He just loves to cook and always offers to help. His specialty is pancakes though. He makes them almost every weekend for Saturday breakfast. I am slowly teaching him little by little, but I am an over protective mom and get afraid he will burn himself. I have to learn to curb that a little bit. Ah well, gotta get back to work. Talk to ya’ll later.
The kids are going to love these! They will love helping to make them even more. I am going to send some to their classes for their Holiday parties. I know that they will be a really big hit with the kids. Baking with my kids is a lot of fun. They really enjoy creating little treats like this to take to class with them.
Finally I feel human again. I was having trouble waking up and just felt dragged down, so I went and got a nice long hot shower. Instead of working in my pj’s, I am now dressed and ready to rock n roll. There is so much to do today and the time has come for me got busy. When I am done with my computer work, I will work on the house itself, but not until I am done here.
The kids are happily content watching the new Batman movie for now and I should be able to finish all I have to do on here before they are done with the movie. At least, I hope so. So let me get something to drink and then I can get down to work.
I made a big breakfast this morning for the family. I usually do every Sunday, but lately have kind of dropped the ball on it. Sometimes life seems to get in the way and our normal routine gets all messed up. It takes a lot of concentrated effort to put everything back into place. So, I am putting things back into place one step at a time.
Routine is important to kids because it makes them feel safe and secure. I know that is going to be difficult with the holidays here, but I will do it anyway. Usually we already have our tree up and that hasn’t happened yet either. Hopefully that is one other thing I can accomplish today as well.
Not really, but I will definitely be happier when my youngest quits getting up at the crack of dawn on the weekends. I would really love to be able to sleep in late sometime. My eldest will help once in a while and get up with him, but he still comes into my room every five minutes so trying to sleep is really pointless. Ah the joys of motherhood!
I was up really early this morning to get some work done and I am tired. I got the kids off to school and the bus was late as usual, but I think a couple more hours sleep is just what I need. I will warm my coffee back up later and drink it. This girl needs some beauty sleep. Wish me sweet dreams and say goodnight. Hasta la vista!
I have been looking at real estate louisville ky and seriously thinking about moving there. It’s not really that far away and most of my family is there. My parents live halfway between here and there, so it wouldn’t make a difference one way or another. The kids aren’t too keen on it though. They would miss their friends and schools and such. I will take their feelings into consideration before I uproot them. After all, it is their life too.
For Christmas this year, one of the presents I am getting the boys is Tuff Hedeman Cowboy Hats. They have been asking for a cowboy hat for a while now, but since they are kind of pricey, I didn’t want to get them until I knew they would take care of them. Like most boys, mine have a tendency to drop whatever they have in their hands or one them right on the floor. Then they step all over whatever it is and if it wasn’t dirty before they dropped it, it is afterwards. Now that they are a bit older, I think they will be able to take care of the hats. I will put up some hat pegs in their room, so they can hang them up. That should work nicely.
When I bought this house, I wanted it to be close to the kids schools. However, I didn’t realize that they would be the first ones on the bus and the last ones off of it. They are on the bus for at least an hour every day and have to get up really early to catch it. I have had constant problems with the new bus driver too. She is inattentive to the kids and what they talk about. The other driver had much more control over the kids and could manage to get here on time without calling out sick constantly either. This has gotten ridiculous to the point that I had to call the transportation department and make a complaint about her. I told the director that he needed to put the old bus driver back on this bus and right away.