Friday, July 9th, 2010
A week ago the kids and I went camping with my parents, one of my sisters, and my brother and his family. A lot of great memories were made. There were paper cup races in the creek, cooking over the fire, and my brothers favorite…climbing into hollow redwoods. I only wish that Brett and Ashley could have come as well. I really missed them both.
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
[june 11]
Our first week in California we logged in many hours at Great-Grandma’s pool.
Obviously we need to work with Roland on the no pointing weapons at people rule.
Adeline was thrilled that I gave in and let them have hot dogs for lunch. I know, I know…bad mama. I will admit that our eating standards slipped a lot in the 2 months we lived without having our own functioning kitchen. They are going back up again though!
And last, but not least…my little dirty-faced snaggled tooth girl. Eating is hard when you are missing 7 teeth up front!
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
I’m here (sort of) and still alive. But then, anyone that reads this knows that from facebook. We are currently on day 2 of living in the new house. I am adjusting slowly, but the kids seem to have fallen in love at first sight. I notice the lack of grass and yard and how tiny the play structure nearby is. They notice all the asphalt that is perfect for bike riding and the play area that is small, but close enough to go without mom or dad (well for the girls..not the boy). Watching them has really helped to soften me to the place. If they are happy we can definitely make things work. It may not be like I envisioned, but things rarely are.
For once I’m not going to push myself to unpack in just a couple days. A room a day is fine. Maybe a bit more? Then again, maybe a bit less. I want to enjoy this time with my children and the little bit of time that Brett has off. We’ve worked today, but we have also picnicked at the park and enjoyed a nice siesta. Cailyn finally learned to ride a bike this morning. We lived in such a hilly area before that the only bike riding she had attempted was on our back porch. All of this flat space inspired her to really work on it and now she is doing great. Just a bit more practice on turns and no one will no that she was a bit of a late starter.
Now I’m off to prep sides for a BBQ dinner. I see Brett grilling out on the patio that I complained was too small, and hear the kids playing with neighbors in the community that was too scrunched together. My vision has shifted and I’m so thankful that it has started to so quickly. Things aren’t perfect of course and I still have a lot of adjusting to do to the area, but things don’t look bleak anymore.
Monday, May 24th, 2010
After hours of listening to squeaking yesterday, Brett finally found the source. Three abandoned mice under our oven. I know, I know…mice in the house. Ewww and ick and everything, but at least no adult mice? They are all dead and gone. We discussed whether to kill them quickly, or to attempt a rescue. Obviously the latter one out. Neither one of us had the heart not to at least try and help them. We guess that they are about 9 days old today, so they are still tiny-tiny and needing to be fed quite often. The first one is perky and a good eater. The second is rather perky, but having a hard time with the syringe. He just keeps trying to look for his mama. I also notice that he will root on his brother (until I can tell otherwise, they are all generic males). The third was rather listless, but a good eater. I was worried about him from the start, but really hoping he would pull through. He didn’t. He was alright at Brett’s 1:30am feeding, but gone when I went to feed them sometime before 5am. I shed a tear over it, and then moved on to take care of the 2 living ones. I’m hoping that their eyes open soon so that we can start to give them stuff to chew on. They currently root around, scratch themselves, and walk a bit on very wobbly legs. They are pretty furry, but their eyes are still closed.
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
He’s two! We’ve exchanged at least a hundred kisses and hugs today and we’ve sung Happy Birthday over and over together. His version goes more like “Happy Day!!! to you” and seeing as how one of his first words ever was “happy-day”, it is perfect. We made birthday brownies and I don’t think any of my kids have ever been so excited by the singing and candles. He squealed and clapped and giggled and sang. And blew out the candles himself.
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
I have a 7 year old who makes a very cute and funny birthday girl. Happy happy birthday to Cailyn! <3 I love you more.
Monday, April 19th, 2010
The new carpet looks fantastic.
The house is officially on the market as of yesterday.
We had our first showing last night.
I am feeling better than I was.
Living with almost none of our stuff is great! So much less for R to get into!
I’m finally feeling like I can get back to knitting. Addie has been concerned about my lack of knitting.
Roland is stringing words together.
Life is pretty good.
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
The kids looked adorable in their new Easter outfits. You will just have to take my word for it since I didn’t take a single photo today (or any since California).
* Sewing machine pedal is dead, so sewing is on pause.
* Knitting on pause.
* Getting the house ready to put on the market is on full force. …well, actually, that is mostly on Brett seeing as my energy reserves are at absolute zero. I am however, doing all the stressing out for him! ;p
I hope to resume blogging in 3 months or so. 
