What a long day!

We had a bit of a busy day around here yesterday. Here are a few highlights:

*6:30am - I get up and study my lesson for Sunday. It is a long one and it will take me a while to get through it!

*7:00am - Sarah wakes up not feeling well and I get to clean up puke first thing in the morning - hip hip hurray!

*8:00am - Brendan has already gone to school and I trying to get my girls out the door. They have other plans though and just want to play. In between everything, I feed Gideon and try to deal with Sarah who is screaming because she puked again.

*8:45am - Grace and Anna are thankfully gone to school and we are now waiting for Becky's bus to come.

*9:30am - The installers arrive to put in our new windows.

*10:00am - I have to leave to take Gideon for his 4month immunization shots. He is such a good baby though - he cried for about a minute and never made another peep all day! He is now 16lbs 7oz and 26 3/4 inches long.

11:30am - I pick up Anna from kindergarten, Becky comes home at 1pm

1:30pm - The windows are completely installed - YEAH!!

1:45pm - We head to the church to help make compassionate service meals - I was excited to help make them and not be the one receiving them!

3:00pm - We head home and try to get Sarah to have a nap - thankfully she did nap for about an hour!

4:00pm - Grace comes home with a friend, Brendan had been home for an hour to do his homework and by now has a friend over too who also stays for supper.

4:30pm - I start making supper

5:45pm - Matt's home and we can eat supper

6:30pm - My piano student shows up for her lesson

7:30pm - I take off to go grocery shopping. It had been 9 days since I had gone for groceries - we were scraping the bottom of the milk and produce barrel!!

8:30pm - I get home and put away all the groceries (Matt and Brendan helped:)), finished the dishes, and finally got to relax!

I know there are other people out there that have even busier days than I do, but I am really glad that most of my days are a little less stressful than this one was! I really do love my new windows. The installer made a few comments that made me laugh. He mentioned that he had never seen windows put in like ours were and called it "inventive" and "frugal"! Oh well - at least it is done right this time!! Here are a few pictures for you.

BEFORE ............................. AFTER

I also got some really cute pictures of Gideon. You would never guess that he just had three needles that morning. He is one happy little man!

Photo Shoot

When Brendan was a baby, I got a phone call from Canadian Baby Photographers asking if I would like a photo shoot in my home and a free picture. Of course I heard "free" and said yes. And of course they knew I would fall in love (like many many other mothers out there!) with the all the photos they took and would want to buy the rest of them. Since then I have done this for the rest of my kids. I don't always have the money for them, but I couldn't do something for one and not for the rest. So, keeping with tradition......... here is Gideon's Canadian Baby Photo Shoot Debut! And thankfully the LAST one too!!! Don't get me wrong, I love my kids and I love all the cute pictures, but they are pretty dang expensive too!

Enjoy!!

What a crazy life!

Last week I took the kids down to my mom and dad's for the week and it was so much fun! I missed Matt as he had to stay and work, but we enjoyed visiting family and meeting my new little niece Emma. We took lots of pictures of the four little cousins that were born in the last three months - so much fun!! Sarah decided to add to the "fun" and on Friday night she started throwing up. She was pretty sick that night and into the next day --- not so much fun on a 6hr road trip! She ended up wrapped in just a blanket the last half of the way home, her clothes were a little yucky. Well, my kids like to share.... so Grace and Becky started puking Saturday night. I had to teach a lesson on Sunday and Matt was working, so I had Brendan stay at home with the sick girls, and I went to church with Anna and Gideon. That was kind of nice actually!! By Sunday night, Grace and Becky were feeling a bit better, but then it was Anna's turn. We even had a scene straight out of "Cheaper by the Dozen" when Sarah "mopped it up with her back" as she slipped through you-know-what that somebody mis-aimed! Anna had a bit of a rough night and Gideon started throwing up this morning so there were a few sheets to wash today. I kept all the girls home from school and I am hoping they can all go tomorrow. Knock on wood - - nobody has puked since this morning! AND I have ALL my laundry washed, folded AND put away!! It was a crazy busy day, but thanks to movies and the Wii, I was able to bake 8 loaves of bread, wash all the dishes, dismantle the Christmas tree and all the decorations and put it away, sweep the floor, organize the toys, get through 10 loads of laundry, make dinner, and go grocery shopping. Holy smokes, I'm tired!! Here's hoping we are all on the mend!