AHHHH, my house is spotless!!! Well ok maybe not spotless but hey its better than it was! If someone came in with a white glove to test the place out I'd still probably throw them out for being a pain but I'd still be happy with myself for all that is accomplished. The kitchen was tackled today and boy was the fridge the pits! I had plenty of science projects who doesn't? I mean come on people it happens to the best of us...not saying I am the best. I am way down low on that board. Probably very bottom but you know I have fridge to let stuff mold in so that's an upside lol. Anyways it is all clean and I am feeling very accomplished. Now what can I cook for dinner to make the whole place a mess? I usually use every pan in the place anyways :)
Well its Labor Day weekend this weekend and I must say that we don't have a lot of plans. Tomorrow I think Mom and I will go to the Clothes Line fair. Funny thing we lived down in Summers for 7 years and I went to that once lived here a year and already going to it. lol Anyways we decided that if we got down there and it was raining then we would just hit Daisies and Olives. Which is one of my MOST favorite flea market to hit! :) Then Sunday is of course Church. Monday is the actual holiday and near as I know there is nothing in the works for us to do but that can change pretty fast. We may put the bed in our room and then our old bed into the kids room. We will just have to see. It will be nice having a weekend with the hubs. He has been working on Saturday's and will be this weekend to but with Monday off it will be an actual weekend! Yay us!!! :) Happy Weekend Ya'll!!!!

Well we are one Day 7 of Fall/Spring Cleaning. So far I have realized I don't have near enough stuff to be very organized as I need to be. I have decided that I should buy something once per week in the tote/drawer organizing department. I probably will have them running out my ears then! HA I am finding it rather daunting to go back into each room daily and right it again and I fear that will be my down fall. I am trying to keep things up and hoping that it just comes routine. I really like to have a clean house and have it presentable very quickly. It is really tricky to do this with one of these around..

Oh well it will be what it will be messy house and all. I do enjoy spending my days with my kiddos and so I'll take that any day over cleaning! :) 

Well Paisley has discovered a few PBS shows that she likes to watch so that has eased some of our schooling chaos. That is a big plus! I can just set her up in front of the TV in her chair and turn on the TV and she is good to go for about 2 minutes! HA! Two minutes is two minutes in the time of peace people! I'll take all I can get. It'll just be 2 minutes at a time. 

Rowdy still doesn't like "Chinese" (English) he really thinks it is just awful and makes sure that he tells me daily. We just keep plugging along and I know that one day it will all click but hopefully it doesn't take him as long as it is me. Poor child! Meanwhile we bought a paint by number thing for "Art" this year and Rowdy started it Tuesday and I thought he would do a little and then be done and finish the rest some other time. WRONG! He did the whole thing that night but he got bored and well just painted. So he brings this masterpiece to me and I said "what is it?" He replied that it was the wolf like on the cover of the box. I said "OH, Well did you follow the numbers and paint by the numbers? His reply "Nope, I got tired of it and just painted. Pretty huh?" My Reply "Yep, if you use your imagination" His reply "Fine I'll go fix it" (begrudging tone). A few minutes later he comes back and it is a bit more wolf like especially if the wolf has blue nostrils. :) Art is going SWELL!!!!! :) 

On that note I am outta here!!! 

Today I realized that this is our 4th week of school! YEHAW! We are right on track and hopefully a bit ahead in some areas. I really like to home school and feel that it is perfect for our family. I don't think that it is for everyone but definitely for us. Today Rowdy had a dentist appointment so we had to make sure all chores and school was done before 1 so that we could go get gas, go get Kris' payroll check, stop off and see Diane and then head to the dentist office and be there by 3. We made it! After 40 minutes of teeth cleaning, little boy and girl squirming, xrays taken we have a cavity. One little ole cavity and 4 back molars coming in pretty much all at the same time. Anyways so we schedule the filling and the next 6 month cleaning for BOTH kids this time. March will be Paisley's first visit and well that should be interesting. We go to leave and no more than walk out the door and Rowdy's nose starts gushing blood. Very strange! So 6 napkins later we finally get enough pressure on it for it to quit. This is the first nose bleed that he has ever had and I am not really sure what could have caused it. So I guess later this week we will be going back to Fayetteville for our filling. Which by the way now fillings are available in a variety of colors. WHAT?? Colors? Really? Isn't that almost condoning kids getting cavities?? Very strange to me. 

Well last week Tarah and I started a deep cleaning schedule to get our houses in order and organized then get in a regular schedule of cleaning. So far so good. Today was day 4 which was clean the living room. Our living room wasn't so bad since we don't have many cubby holes in there. I really have a pack rat problem. Not really hoarding but lots of junk drawers! HA! Anyways last Wednesday was the first day and it was tackle the P's rooms (Parker and Paisley) those 2 rooms were EASY compared to the boys rooms which was on Thursday. Then Friday was sort laundry for all kids. Neither one of us had done that for the kids and so we really needed to get that done. Well its done but I am ashamed to say that I just finished today! I worked all day on Friday on Rowdys and then finished it on Saturday morning and then DIDN'T move to Paisley's room. So today I sorted and hung up Paisley's laundry. Now to get it put away. Tomorrow is the start of Master bedroom cleaning. AHHHHH, the dresser is a MESS! That's the dreaded part. It is the "hot spot" in our room so it catches everything! Oh well it will be much better when the whole house is done and maintained! Well I just realized that I need to go buy a tote and a few magic bags for clothes so I can get those things stowed away. Off to the dollar general store I go! :) 

Motherly Instincts

Motherly instincts...you know the feeling you get when your child is doing something that they shouldnt be and so you call them out even if they are clear in another room. Well I have those! LOL I have used them regularly especially with a sleep walker living in the house. They are pretty handy but they confuse Kris something fierce. He doesnt get it. Well last night I really got him. I had a little help last night but I didnt disclose that to him. :) Last night we laid down in bed and we laid there about 15 minutes and I yelled at Rowdy "Rowdy, stop reading your book!" Rowdy said "Uhhhh Ok Momma" Well I proceeded to go to sleep and it was quit for a bit and Kris said "How did you know that he was reading his book?" I replied "Mothers instincts" He said "Super Duper Scary" I said "Be careful what you do" He said "Glad your not my Mom" HAHAHAHAHA So really I didnt have an instinct. I just heard the swish of the paper turning and I heard it several times before I said something but I'm not going to reveal this to Kris. Im not sure if he slept well after that but I sure slept good and probably had a big grin on my face cause it was pretty funny! :) 

Do you have a funny story of motherly instinct??? Even a fooled them good one like mine? :) 

Been sick what feels like all week. Not feeling bad really but coughing here and there and chest hurting at night. Last night though ugh didn't feel well all night. Got home from AWANA and went to sleep and tossed, coughed, turned, coughed, tossed, coughed well you get it. Finally fell asleep and woke up later and really needed to go to the bathroom. Stretched and thought that was a good hard sleep. Came out of the bathroom and looked at the alarm clock and it was 11:06. I had probably only slept 20-30 minutes. TOPS! Ugh, I hate those kinds of nights. Needless to say I did try to carry on about my day as normal even though I really wanted to curl up and sleep aka cough. So I dug into Rowdy's room. I really needed a shovel. Oh my that room was a pit. I worked on it while he did some school stuff cause well if he had been in there the whole time then we would had to have kept every little thing broke or not. Anyways it is much better now but not finished. I forgot we had a tote full of books in his closet and so I bought a book shelf at Wal-Mart so tomorrow I have to work on getting that put together and the books on it. Then I tackle Mount Laundry. Happy Friday to me! Maybe I will get my date night this weekend. So far this week Kris has worked every night except Tuesday night and we think he will be working all day on Saturday so tomorrow night is my only hope for a date night. :) We need a date night with no kids. Someday soon hopefully! :)

Dad

I woke in the night crying last night. Not sure what the dream was about really just that Dad was in it. That always starts my day off teary. He is then on my mind the whole day more than usual. Typical days I think about him and wonder what he would have done or said or what silly saying he had to go with what event is going on in our life. I most of all wish that he could have met Paisley. He loved Rowdy so much and I just know that he would have loved her too. He really got a kick out of Rowdy and his shenanigans and would have really loved some of the things that Rowdy has said or done since Dad passed. Sometimes it is so hard not to have him here. I know that it is hard for me and so I cant imagine what my Mom faces daily. I know just last night she said that she missed something in particular so much and she said well I cant really pin point one thing I miss it all. Makes me sad for her. She is doing so well when most people would have thought about giving up she is pushing on and making the best of things cause she knows one day she will be with him again.  In the 6 short years that Rowdy knew Dad he sure learned a lot or maybe it runs in the family but I'm leaning towards the first. He says something on occasion and I think I wonder when he heard Dad say that? It will sounds just like what Dad would say. Odd how you know that Heaven is there and you know its better than this place we are at and we long to be in Heaven so that all pain is erased and we will forever praise our Father. But when someone so near you gets there first your anticipation increases and you really long to be there to just so you can be together again. Someday we will all be together again to fall on our knees and worship or Lord and Savior.

Sorry this is run on and jumbly. Hard to type while crying.

First Birthday Party...finally

I  forgot to publish this on Saturday....so keep in mind it was written then. Well we finally got to celebrate Paisley's First Birthday today. It was almost a month late but hey she didnt have a clue. She had a great time I think. She didnt really say lol but you know. I think she was more curious why everyone was standing around watching her so close. Robyn did a great job with the cakes and even surprised us with a mini personal cake for Paisley. The cakes and cake pops not only looked great but they tasted great too. My family didnt know about cake pops for the most part so it was a new thing and I think everyone liked them. Paisley didnt want to just dig in she did grab the lady bugs off her cake and pound them  together and on the cake a little and then eventually pulled the cake off the plate. Aunt Duh cleaned her up while the other cake was being served and I was nuking the ice cream (note to self: put ice cream out a bit before you need it). By the time she was cleaned up it was pretty much time for the PRESENTS!!!!