Happy Father's Day!

Wet & Smoldering

Well, today proved to be mostly uneventful. Andrew is sick. Unfortunately, we were supposed to hang out with friends and instead we hung out on the couch all day and watched way too much TV. I'm not really sure what the problem is. He has a fever. With this kid, it doesn't matter if he has a double ear infection or just a runny nose, his body reacts with a high fever. So my kid who usually goes a mile a minute was just laying around today, cold. And he only wanted to snuggle on the couch. (Which I confess is kind of nice - except that while he's cold and under covers, I'm sweating from the 40+ pound heater on my lap.)

However, this evening, since the families couldn't get together, my friend and I still went out. Marc said he had the boys covered, so I got to go out for Mexican. I stopped by the store on the way home to buy fixings in an attempt to make an ice cream cake for Father's Day. I hit a wet spot on the floor and fell hard on my knee while practically in the splits. I think if I wouldn't have been so instantly embarassed and angry, I would have just rolled over and cried... it really hurt! And I was wearing my new jeans. While I am limping through the store, I was thinking, "Man, if I have a hole my jeans, somebody is going to hear about it." What ugly emotions can quickly arise?

However, on the way home, I saw the most beautiful sunset that I might have ever seen. I am convince it was painted just for me. God is good, even while limping through the store with wet pants or smoldering under a sick child.

I think our laptop officially bit the dust.

Fortunatly, we have an old desktop downstairs that we can connect with. We don't use it much, however. This is also a busy week getting ready for vacation and then of course there is vacation, so I may be offline quite a bit. Just giving a heads up.

Milestone Retracted

AJ is back in his crib. We found dozens of little splinters in his feet the other day. Marc spent a good portion of an evening with tweezers and one exceptionally patient two-year-old getting them out. We had not idea where they came from.

We then put him back into wooden 'big boy bed'. Next day - more splinters. Now, I am not sure how, but these little bity peices of wood shoved into his feet don't seem to bother him in the least. But until we can locate the rough spot and sand it down... he is back into the crib.

Andrew's new cool thing to do.

Binder Park Slideshow

Milestone Alert.

My Baby is no longer in his baby bed. My AJ is now out of the crib and in the bottom bunk under Andrew. It's a little bittersweet. Sad to think my baby isn't really a baby anymore no matter how easily "Baby AJ" rolls off the tongue. But's it's also sweet to think we will soon get that crib out of the boys room and actually have some moving space in there.

AJ is l.o.v.i.n.g. his new bed. It's "AJ Big Bed" to him and he wants nothing to do with the crib anymore. (Although he did just get his legs stuck between the bed and wall a few minutes ago and screamed to high heaven until Daddy ran to rescue him). Guess it's all part of the big boy bed learning curve.

No time for housework...

Wow - it's been a while since I posted! I am trying to think of what we have been doing? Well, last week, I had Bible Study, I was finishing up a transcription job (which I am not longer doing after much consideration) and getting the house ready for my parents to come up on Wednesday. On Thursday, we sent Marc and my Dad off for a week long fishing trip in Minnesota visiting Marc's brother and sister and their families.

So Mom has been here with us and we've been keeping busy. On Friday, we headed down to Binder Park Zoo and met up with my Aunt and Cousin and kiddos. The boys and us grown-ups, too, had a blast! I'll post pictures soon. We even got to feed giraffes!

Saturday, we took a walk/bike ride in the morning, then hit a birthday party in the park in the afternoon, then hit the Festival downtown late afternoon before coming home and practically crashing in the evening. We were beat. Several storms came through this weekend as well and my boys are at an age where they are bothered by thunder, so Saturday night was a late night riding the storms out.

We ended up not making church on Sunday. We were just exhausted and the kids actually slept in for once. Bad excuse, I know.

Yesterday, we hit the library and the grocery store in the morning before coming home for lunch and naps. We went out for dinner at Logan and ended up at the mall where I finally got a pair of jeans that fit and have no holes in them!!

This morning, we had our finally Bible Study meeting completing Beth Moore's Psalms of Ascent. Of course, we had to finish with a potluck and then we all swam a bit in our hostess' pool. The kiddos (especially AJ) was super cranky, so we didn't swim long, but still didn't get home for naps until around 2:30pm. Now Mom and the boys are napping. We might hit the Gardens this evening a bit. The weather is so nice and the "Great Lakes" are open... It could be hard to resist it.

The guys are planning on coming home late-late tonight. It will be nice to see them. I miss my Marc and I know the boys are, too.

Can we fix it?

Last Wednesday, through our reciprocal membership, we were able to go to the local Children's Museum. The boys had a great time and I had a pretty good time myself. We went a little bit later in the day and it really wasn't that crowded either.

We might be set on diapers...

Latest CVS trip. Total out of pocket = $15.42. Received in CVS Bucks for next trip = $15.00.

I don't plan on posting anymore trips even though I plan on continuing to shop CVS. I tend to get caught up in what kind of deals I can get instead of how blessed I am to have this resource available to me. I am getting proud of myself rather than given God the credit for this blessing. Posting the deals doesn't help. So this post is to tell you that rolling the CVS Bucks works - go for it, but I don't plan on posting them anymore.