What??

Wednesday evening, well I guess really early Thursday morning...around 1:30 am to be exact I heard a little chattering voice next to my ear. It took me a second to realize Molly was standing next to me....have you ever been so tired that you hear things coming out of someones mouth but you have absolutly no idea what they are saying????????? Oh my gosh!!!! I kept asking her to repeat...and she kept talking but I had no idea what she was saying...I did understand that she seemed in no distress...so i walked her back to her bed...laid her down but she refused and i said good night and shut the door!! lol i am so mean but i was soooooooooooooooooooooo tired!!! Well as I laid my head back down I heard her door open and apparently she gave up on me and went down to sleep on the couch!! I knew nothing would harm her soi went back to dreamland!
As I was retelling this story to my parents at Nicks soccer game Paul starts laughing in his chair... I looked at him and said "What??" he said first she went to him and was talking to him and he sent her over to me!! lol Gee what a guy!!!! Thanks for having my back buddy!!!! So I guess i could say Thursday very early i earned the worst parent in the world title!! Sorry MollyBird....we really do love you!!! I just really needed my sleep!!!!

restful weekend??

I am really hoping that Saturday can be a sort of day of rest...or at least just hanging out at home and being bale to catch up on some much neglected laundry,cleaning,and other assorted household projects!!
Silly me, even with all the junk we have to do at the rental house started a project of my own at our house! Well, I kind of forgot that the small step ladder is at the other house! So i cant peel the wallpaper that is much above my reach!! So that project remains half done!
The boys will be at Discovery weekend at church so no scout meeting for them friday and Joe will be missing his saturday soccer game. I will be going to the church in just a few hours to hopefully finish up the setting up for their weekend.

Crazy days once again!

We have lots going on nowadays! Soccer has started! The boys did not get much practice in, as a matter of fact Joe did not get any in! Nicks coach scheduled a few practices before the games started but Joes coach only scheduled 2 practices before games started and Joe had prior commitments so he missed both! Today is Joes second game, Nick has had two games already too. Nick scored a goal on Thursdays game and i missed it because I was out that night! BUMMER!!!!
My parents have been big time helpers in getting the other house ready to rent out again. We had the insurance guy come out and they are covering most everything I think except the carpeting. So that will be a help. We are putting the boys to work there as well! This next weekend both boys will be spending it at the Church for thier "Discovery" weekend. It is supervised by adults, put on by the senior high, for the junior highers! This will be the second year for the boys, Nick has a talk to give so he will be working on that this week i'm sure!

I'm really behind here!

Wow! I try really hard to stay motivated and keep up to date here but it never seems to work that way! Today ends Easter Break for the kids, that means back to setting our alarms and early mornings! Tomorrow there will be no rest because after I drop Molly off Paul and i need to head down to the rental house and he wants to get some outside work done there. I am sure the weather will cooperate for us. Paul and my parents have been doing a super job, Paul washed down walls, my dad ripped up the carpeting for us(GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yuck............)we need to still take up the tile work in the kitchen I believe, then we have to do painting this next week and then we can get the new carpet put in. I think we have some electrical issues to look into as well. Paul's friend thinks we'll have no problems getting it rented out soon again! I can only pray, and pray that they are good tenants who will care about the place and pay thier bills.Thats what has mainly been keeping ym mind occupied.
Soccer season has started too...for Nick at least! We have heard no communication from Joes coach yet which seems odd. So we will be busy again for sure. molly has ended her swim lessons and did not want to sign up again, I was fine with that, our own pool will be opened next month and she will get in swimming as often as we can!!!

It is official, I made the list

and trust me it is not a good list that I have made.





I have made Molly's List.

as you can also see Joe made the list(above referred to as Toe, thats how she makes a j for some reason) he did not join the list until this morning though.

We tried making a graph this week and rewarding people for using polite words. Well that ended because a little girl in the house decided it was way more fun to continuosly add stickers to her name and to remove them from others. So Iwas mena yesterday and tried adding a bit more structure to her day because she has been horrible about waking up, getting ready for the day,eating, and doing homework. needless to say it did not go well for anyone!! So we are now trying an earlier bedtime...alll that meant was this morning she woke up on her own a full hour earlier and decided to sing in her wonderfully operetic voice....sigh