Week in View

Sunday:Abbi's 105 degree picture. Definitely not the typical hyperactive throw everything Abbi that I usually enjoy the company of. She really wanted to go to church, poor thing.

Monday:I woke up to a surprise, many people in my bed. Two hooligans and my better half all in the same bed with me. Grandma Ruthie came to visit, entertain, help with children, etc. She met me at the doctor's office and watched Alona and Kacen while I was with Abbi getting her checked out again. No flu, ear infection or any other medicine-curable illness. She introduced us to cinna-pie which accompanied delicious papa johns pizza. Paul got the cinna-pie when it had been sitting out for many hours and said it wasn't that great. I'll have to buy one so that he can have one hot, they are soo good! Thank goodness for the sanity that she brought, adult conversation and interaction is the greatest. She stayed until the girls were put in bed and even gave them their bath, Amazing! I should have taken pictures. And she even looked at my scrapbooks. Paul says they look great, you can be a judge.I still need to add captions, words and other decor but this is the beginning of Kacen's baby book. This is my first 12X12 scrapbook and I love it, I love that there is so much more space, much more to work with. I wish that the girls would have been able to have this size, I just didn't have the money when I was doing theirs. Thanks to Ruth's present to me I was able to go to Roberts and get the scrapbook, some paper, stamps, die cuts, stickers and more!
Tuesday: I had a doctor's appt in Murray, Marta watched the girls at the doctor's office for me. Alona missed her computer class because of my appointment. Driving home at 5:30 in the afternoon I had a hard time keeping my eyes open.


Wednesday: family time! Paul's night off of work. I ran around like a chicken with its head cut off. I had to go to get gas in the nissan, copy articles from the Friend and go to the grocery store without Paul. Paul had loads of homework that he still wasn't finished with at 6:30 p.m. when we got home. It was just Smith's for Heaven's sake and it took me over an hour. Abbi was in the cart throwing groceries down on her brother who was peaceful in his car seat. So he woke up and started screaming during the last twenty minutes of our expedition. Then Alona decided to take all of the price tags in the meat section and rearrange them.So I was holding Kacen, had Abbi in the back of the cart and Alona sitting side-ways in the front of the cart(which doesn't work so well when trying to fit the cart through check-out). Then We had to fir in eating dinner, having our lesson, activity and treat for family evening before the girls went to bed. Lets just say that they stayed up way past bed time, but thats okay. We got everything done that we had set out to and managed to have a little fun.

Thursday: I ran away to my sister's house. Even while I was doing this I was wondering if it was a good idea. Alona would miss her computer class again. She is just missing being there, she will have the same lesson waiting for her on the computer when she gets back, there is no teacher and no kids to play with...there is just a director of it that kicks you out when you miss classes and is real ornery. My sister's step-daughter was having her birthday, and okay so that was what I had planned to go down there for and it got cancelled, but she said that I could still come down and so I did. She tried to get her son who is two months older than Alona to write his name by putting frosting all over the table. It was so much fun for all involved except my sister, her son wouldn't try. We ended up staying the night, I was too tired to drive, afraid that I would fall asleep while driving.

Friday: We cleaned up for my sister after using her dishes for breakfast and then headed out for my grandmother's house. We had burger bar for lunch, I love the Big Ben and of course their old-fashioned fries and had to have a shake. Then when we didn't feel welcome any longer we started for home and stopped at Paul's work to say hello! Only 24 hours away from him and I missed him, a lot!! Then we unpacked and had dinner, baths and got ready for bed.

Saturday: I was able to go to the store and get Paul a Valentines gift! I'm not so sure about it though, hopefully it is an ok gift. The children were good, Kacen sucked on his fingers the whole time and only whined a little. I was in a hurry to get in and out so I just reached in and grabbed a bag of Valentine M&M's. I get in the car and after openning them I notice tht it says "dark chocolate." I picked up the wrong bag of M&M's, I love milk chocolate and cannot say the same about dark. All of us except for Alona are currently sick, sinus stuff...a mixture of runny/stuffy nose, watery/red eyes, cough, can't breathe, behind the eyes pain, etc. Alona is a lucky duck.

Abbi is 2 in one week, 10:08 a.m. next Saturday she will be 2! That will be fun! I still need to figure out what I will do about cake and blowin out candles. We are going to Thanksgiving Point for an activity and eating lunch there afterwards.