Merry Christmas!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

What a wonderful day. We enjoyed lots of time with family and friends.

The children are excited about all of the gifts they received and even more excited about the remainder of the family that has yet to make it to town.

We gained a new home for a new family member on Christmas morning. Abigail got a Hamster cage. Hmmmm, What was I thinking?! She was so excited. Harrison has a ramp for his skateboard/bike and the number for the emergency room on speed dial. Grayson has a Leap Frog reading system and is enjoying "reading" his own books.

We had an eventful year. Lot's of ups and downs. Looking forward to much more ups in the new year and to see what is in store for us all.

Hope you all had the Merriest Christmas yet and are looking forward to all of the blessings waiting in the New Year!

Stating the obvious

So the attempt to keep everyone up to date has obviously fallen flat. That is what I get for setting such high expectations for myself.

On a daily basis I feel a sense of major accomplishment when everyone makes it to where they are supposed to be and back home. Without any phone calls reminding me that I actually have to pick the children up from school. Thankfully that has only happened once and was a minor communication error on the part of the parents involved. (Yes that would include me)

So here we go with the bi-annual update:

Abigail is excelling in school. She is truly taking a huge liking to english and literature. She loves to read and write, all the time. If she is not doing one she is working on the other. She is doing really well in her classes at dance and I am super excited about all of the events they have coming up. I have seen some real strides made this year. She is truly full of surprises.

Harrison is doing really well in school as far as his grades go. He maded HONOR ROLL for the first nine weeks. WoooooooHoooooooo!!!!!! I can not tell you how excited I was about this and he is truly proud of his accomplishment. Our behaviour, well we will just let that subject slide for now.

Grayson has decided to come into his own over the past few months. He is very inquisitive and must have a set of adult eyes on him at all times. I absolutly adore him as long as he has not found a pair of scissors and is hiding somewhere cutting up whatever he found that looked good.

All in all it has been a good year. Ready for next year and all that it may bring.

Home Sweet.... Disaster....

I have an issue..... This is an understatment. I decided that I would seperate the boys since Grayson is getting bigger. Grayson is also learning the art of talking back which leads to nightly fighting in the boys room. What a treat, at least for PaPa who is the one here to enjoy it.

This was a simple matter of moving Abigails stuff out of her room. Painting those walls a more neutral color than Miss Piggy Pink. Move all of the boys stuff into that room so they can sleep while the room they are currently in can be painted. This is going to be a simple project.

The first half of this scenario went flawlessly. Awesome, got Abby out and resettled into her spot in my room. Yay Me!! More on that later. Room has been painted, including the ceiling, the furniture moved over. Now onto part two.

The second half of this project will include dis-assembling the bunk bed, taking down the wallpaper on the bottom portion of the walls, and removing the not so much chair rail.

Did I tell anyone that I started this on the week prior to the kids returning to school? No?, well I did! So that would put the second half of this project starting on the day the kids went back. I began taking the bunk beds apart before they went to school and had it all apart and stacked up against the closet before time to leave.

This is the point where we realize Harrison's belt is in the closet. No Problem, I will just lean this over and you reach in and grab it before I drop it back on the door...........

OOPS!!!

So all in all. This has been a productive day. Bunk Bed taken apart. Kid's up and dressed for their first day of school. Luncheds packed. Book Bags Ready. Tater dressed and ready to go to Day Care. Final project of the day get the boys belt, break the double pained window and laugh hysterically all the way to school. Estimated time of project completion has been moved to early next year.

The Beginning....Again!

I am going to give this a try. This will make the third site I have created to try and keep family and friends in the loop with all of the extremely funny things that happen in this household of characters. Let's hope this one turns out better than the other two since I do not think they were ever updated.

Hopefully, this will provide an outlet for the hilarity that happens in our house. Not to mention the not so hilarious antics of The Boys in the household.

I Love You and......

I am not sure where to begin with this. My three children are told I Love You at every opportunity. Just so that they will know. When the oldest two were very little it was an immediate response --- I Love You To! At some point, I am guessing around 6, this tapered off. Now it is not an automatic response and trust me when I say you will never hear it within 2 days of punishing one of them. Now, all of that being said. There is still a little one in the house, "Red".

The past two weeks we have been staying at my parents house due to some painting going on in our house. So our schedule has been just a wee bit mixed up and rushed. Wednesday of this week when I took the children to my parent's house after school and before I left to go to work I told Red, I Love You! My response from him was, "I Love You To Mommy, and I Like You."

......Make my heart melt......

Just when the homework, the real work, the after school activities, the cleaning, etc., etc., etc. threaten to pull you under and not ever let you resurface God places that tine ray of sunshine in our path to say; Have you truly counted your blessings today? Whether we see them or not they are there not always in a big way but in the tiniest details.