Brrr, sure is cold out there!

Finished the "It's all too much" book last night, it was very good and very inspiring. I spent the entire morning cleaning and organizing the basement, so I feel accomplished today. The inlaws made a quick visit, they wanted their saw back. The evening kind of flew by. My nice clean basement got destroyed by a two year old... very quickly. That's ok, it wasn't too hard to clean up real fast before we put her to bed. I guess if you keep up with it, it's not so bad.

I don't think Jess took a nap today, I put her in her crib and then went about my business in the basement, she was loud for quite a long time upstairs. My snoring kid, who fell asleep very fast tonight, now confirms I don't think she even shut her eyes today, she just played in her crib for an hour or so. But at least she "rested". And Jon woke up at 5pm, so he barely made it until 8pm. Ahh, it's so nice to have kids that love their bedtime!!!!

Happy Turkey Day

Jon's first Thanksgiving, and there was a light dusting of snow on the ground, how nice. I got a cleaning bug this morning so when Jeff went out to get a few good deals at Meijer's I had him get one of those toy storage units with the different bins. And I organized and got rid of some of Jessica's things. Tomorrow's project is the basement, and oh what a project that will be.

I went to bed way too late, I was reading that book. So we all took a nap at noon, luckily Jess woke up in her usual 2 hour nap fashion and we raced around the house getting everything ready to go to the inlaws. We had a great time. After dinner we made gingerbread houses, I've never done that before. The kids thought it was a lot of fun. Gabby was busy eating the M&M's and her Mom was the one enjoying decorating the house. I just put on the icing and let Jess do her thing. She wanted to put the icing on and then it got messy. My FIL tried to get me with the icing, but I got him back, a huge glob on his nose, and then I decided to decorate it with some chocolate, hahaha! I'm sure he'll get me back when I least expect it.

Came home, put the kids to bed, now I've been uploading the pics to shutterfly. Nobody understands why we keep to the routine, why did the kids have to nap today, why do they have to go to bed their usual time. I just say, hmmm... my kids have slept through the night since 6 weeks old (every single night), routine is a good thing!

Put together my inlaws christmas present. A digital picture frame. I like it and I don't. It was on clearance for 50 bucks, which is awesome, but you do get what you pay for. But boy have they come down in price, I remember when they were 300 bucks!!!! Oh well, it's been a long day!

Zzzzz

I'm tired. Going to bed too late, having a hard time falling asleep, mixed with my little alarm clock getting up so early does not make for a good combination. Cleaned this morning, had a visit from my MIL, & cut the grass (when is this damn tree going to quit spitting out leaves). That's all for now, my brain is crashing....Zzzzz

The days are a blur

The days just fly by. Some days I don't even remember what day it is.

Jessica woke up today at 7am. I heard MAMA, crying, and ALL WET. So I knew I was in trouble. Jeff put on her diaper a little crooked and it wasn't covering what it should have been covering. So she was drenched, the sheets were drenched, what a thing to wake up to. So the laundry got started a little earlier than I would have liked it to.

I finally got all my pictures loaded onto the website, that took forever. I take way too many pictures. I always have trouble deciding which ones to actually print, which to just make collages of, and which ones I should really just hit delete on. I need more hard drive space. Between music and pictures I am running out. And I do back them up on DVD, but I like them all on the computer, so they can all be accessed quickly and easily.

Today was Gymboree, they had cornmeal in the play box, Jeff says the kids made a BIG MESS, hahaha! Jess loves her art class, I'm so glad I put her in it. If we want to play on the equipment we can just go to OPEN GYM times, although that is challenging taking the two of them. Maybe in January we'll try "fitness fun" and Jon will start level two then also.

While they were gone, I was able to do the dishes, sweep/mop floor, bring up all the clothes and put them away, vacuum the carpet, give Jon a bath and start feeding him his bottle. Time went by very fast. But I'm glad to get that all out of the way, and I'm glad Jon was pretty cooperative.

I actually got Jeff to participate in my "love letters" idea. I think it will be fun.