Life with Littles

So tired.

I can seriously not believe how tired I am.  This is just not fair.  I am supposed to be fully rested since I have been on break from school.  My house is also supposed to be spotless.....yeah right!  I can't believe that I have to start classes tomorrow.  Where exactly did the summer go? 

On another note, we have discovered that we can now add another allergen to John's growing list.  Horses.  This is a bad allergy too, complete with swollen eyes, rash, itching and wheezing.  Great, we are starting with the asthma problems now.  I can't wait until hubby's insurance kicks in and I can get him to the doctor for some new meds.  Poor baby!  He just sounds awful.  As an asthma sufferer I can totally relate to how miserable you feel when you can't breathe. 

Preschool Olympics

There is a wonderful blog that I love to read called, The Motherload.  It is written by the founder of MomAdvice and it is a great site.  One of my favorite things about the blog is that she posts a Notebook  of interesting things that she has found on the internet.  There are a lot of crafts, recipes and other family oriented projects.  Yesterday Amy announced a giveaway .  All you have to do is complete on of the notebook projects and post about it on your blog.  Then you are entered to win a Flip Ultra camera.  John has been at home without his siblings since they started school last week, so I picked a project that we could do while they were gone.  In comes the Preschool Olympics that were featured in the 08-07-08 Notebook .  We cut foam plates and I set out a water bottle to see if he could do Ring Toss.  It was a little hard at first because the plates are so lightweight.  He quickly learned, however, just where to sit and just how to toss to get them all on the bottle.  Here are a few pictures of the efforts.

We also had a ball toss to add to the fun.

Thanks Amy  for issuing the challenge!  And thanks to another Amy for posting the original idea!

I was a slacker

All day yesterday I did not accomplish very much.  I had such a great time just organizing my digital photos and making some digital scrapbook pages.  It was great!  Sometimes you just have to take a little time off and have some fun.  The 3 older littles went to school (it was the first day back), and John went to the sale barn with daddylittle.  In all the quiet I just took some downtime.  I have to get back on track today though.  I still have a lot to do before I head back to the books on the 25th. 

Just to give you something to look at, here is Miss Smarty on the 1st day of 2nd grade.

I love yard sales.

That about sums it up.  You just never know what you are going to find when you go to one.  I was told to go to a yard sale yesterday because I would find a lot of cute clothes for Miss Smarty.  So I did.  And I did.  Find cute clothes that is.  Lots of cute clothes.  Most were Gymboree and many still had the tags on them.  Miss Smarty loves to wear skorts and I hit the motherload of skorts at this sale.  Some she won't be able to wear until spring, but I can hold them until then.  Anyway, after I got home last night she tried some of them on and I discovered that she could wear the smaller size (I had passed up some items of this size because I thought they would be too little).  So, I went back today to see if anything was left in that size.  Well, I found a few things, and some I had missed yesterday.  They had also put out some new things.  One of which was a box of K'nex I walked past, but then it caught the corner of my eye.  It ended up being well worth what I paid for it.  The littles played with it all afternoon.  Then when daddy got home he played with them too.  I think it might have been the best $1.50 I have ever spent!

Today was a good day....

It was busy, but good.  First, all the girls went to get new haircuts.  As you can see Miss Smarty got a brand new 'do, look at all that hair on the floor.

Then we headed straight to the waterpark for some summer fun!

It was a wonderful day!  Hope yours was just as good.

It is that time of year....

This project has been on my mind for a few days, but since it is the small thing over at Home Sanctuary I decided to get it done today.  Organize the back to school supplies.  It wasn't until I pulled the lists to look at them that I realized I will now have one in high school, one in middle school, and one in elementary.  Where does the time go? 

I do have one complaint about the school list.  My high schooler is supposed to have 3 2" binders and one 1" binder.  Now I love binders as much as the next person, probably more depending on who the next person is.  But, how in the world are they supposed to fit all those binders plus books in a locker?  Have they even considered this?  And they need a flash drive too.  Why not cut out some of the paper and use the flash drive instead?  Just a thought.

Getting back to normal...

I can't believe how good it feels to be done with school for a while.  After I finished my last assignment yesterday I got burst of energy and began working on some of the projects I have been itching to do.  It was great!  I started cleaning out stuff from our master bathroom.  I am one of those people who hates to through things I bought away even if I end up hating them.  Yesterday was a different story.  I threw stuff away like you would not believe.  All the lipsticks that were just the wrong shade, lotions I ended up not really using, the list could go on and on.  I hope to have pictures for you later in the day.  Hubby decided to head to bed early since he has to be at work bright and early tomorrow, this lead to me being kicked out of the bathroom so I moved on to another project.  I pulled stuff from my binders for the spring semester and put them in the rather large binder with the other first year items.  I also pulled out the papers I will need next semester and grouped them behind labeled tabs.  Yipppeee!!!!  I am all ready for the fall semester to start.  This morning I plan on finishing the bathroom and then working in my bottomless pit office space.  I have a lot to do in there.  I need to sort through a bunch of things and get them put in a logical home.  Its funny how all this stuff piles up on you.  Later this afternoon all the girls are getting haircuts and then we are heading to the pool.  I have not been able to take the littles to the pool this summer and I have really been read the riot act over it by Miss Smarty.  So I guess I better take them to get back in her good graces.  It sounds like a very busy, but fun day.

My reflection

A reflection is a funny thing.  It shows everything about you whether you like it or not.  In my home, my reflection can be seen in the form of 4 bodies.  Most of these bodies are smaller than mine, but 1 is almost my size.  My reflection can talk back to me with the words that I said earlier without thought.  My reflection mimics things it has seen me do a hundred times, or sometimes things it has only see me do once.  My reflection can show others the love I posess, or it can act out with an anger I try not to express.  Love it, or hate it my reflection is true.  As I work at changing my reflection there is one that I look to.  My Jesus, My savior, My friend.  I pray that my life will reflect his, and in turn that his reflection with be the one that my littles posess, not mine.