7 am-Woke up. Fed the two older kids breakfast and loaded the dishwasher. Emptied the dryer and transferred the washer load to the dryer, got a new load of clothes in the washer. Walked around the house and collected dirty clothes and brought them back to the laundry room-threw them in the l.r. floor. Went to the computer to print out some items from Enchanted Learning for Hannah. We are working on a lapbook on Ireland this month, and I recently became a member of it. It is a wonderful site with a wealth of info and activities for kids, much of which are perfect for lapbooks. Then we worked on some of the sheets and colored them in (we being Hannah). I checked Facebook for about 2-3 minutes.
9 am-My sleepy little 17 month old woke up. I made him breakfast and sippy cup of chocolate milk to toddle around the house with-he is a grazer. I returned to Hannah and we worked on some math. We are doing subtraction right now. Then Joshua wanted to trace letters on the dry erase board so we worked on his letters and numbers, in green dry erase marker for March!
10 am-I returned to the dishwasher to unload it only to see that I had never actually hit the start button. D'oh! I finally started it again, Then went back to switch loads in the laundry room again. Now I had three loads in the basket to fold/hang. The phone rings, it's hubs telling me we were charged by something we shouldn't have been charged for-some movies from Disney Movie club (love them!!). So I drop what I'm doing and go call them, lady says No problem-she is pulling off the pending charges and when I get it, just mark it return to sender on the outside. They have always been really good about helping me out, you just have to stay on top of declining the movie of the month if you don't want it. I go back to switching the laundry loads, and the phone rings again. It's another bill to pay, and so I get that information and straighten it out.
11 am. Time to get ready for lunch. I realize I forgot the bread and the jelly in the van from getting groceries last night, so Velveeta Cheesy skillets it is! I start some meat browning on the stove, and go back to help Hannah with her work. Jonah walks over to me and wants me to read him some books, so we all take a break and have some storytime :D. The timer for the meat is done, so we head to the kitchen and get the pasta going, and then I unload/reload the dishwasher and clean the kitchen. I make everyone lunch, and just as I'm sitting down to eat, Joshua spill his milk everywhere. Jonah is splashing and playing in it, so everything is a mess. We wipe up the spill and finish our lunch. Jonah even sits at the table with us, like a big boy. I am losing my little baby :( I take him to my room and run a bath for him, and get him all cleaned up.
12 pm Then I get Hannah's bath started and wash her hair, taking Jonah back in here with me. As soon as I do that, I start on folding the clothes from the heaping laundry basket. Then I help Hannah get dressed and get Joshua in the tub. I go on a hunt for my glass of tea, only to realize it is just ice. Boo!!!!! I start writing this blog, and then realize it's been about 10 minutes, and I haven't heard from Joshua. He needs to get out of the tub, as it's probably freezing by now. He has a tendency to stay in until he's freezing and pruny, almost ghostlike. He apparently was already out of the tub, in my room rolling around on the bed. It is amazing to me, how different boys and girls are. My boys are happy to go off in a corner by themselves and get into trouble. Hannah wants and craves my constant attention. The headache I've had all morning starts to get worse, I look for my tea again, forgetting it is empty, and then I settle for water. I come back to the computer, and window out of the blog and work on my "coupon guide" I've been typing for a week now. I'm hoping to put it on Amazon soon and maybe make a few extra dollars explaining how I've managed to stretch my pennies into dollars by couponing.
1pm-Discover Jonah has dumped a huge box of colored pencils out everywhere and strewed them around the house. He's also (as accused by his older siblings) destroyed the playroom and pulled all the clothes out of the bedroom dressers and thrown those into the floor.Work on Joshua's awana verse for tonight. Remember to make Hannah do some extra chores to earn money to buy her another awana sparks book, since she's lost her book 3 weeks into awanas. Decide to take a nap with the kids when I get them to lay down.
2pm-Go check on the crockpot, and change the setting to low, as it's already been on high for 4 hours. Pot roast tacos for dinner tonight!!! Finish typing this blog, texting friends, and finally I am taking some tylenol to get rid of the headache and now to get the kids to lay down with me!
2:30 pm-turn on last night's episode of "19 Kids and Counting"(love them!!) while getting Jonah to sleep. Halfway through he falls asleep, I pause the show and sneak off with him to snuggle up in bed.
4 pm. Jonah wakes up and starts crawling all over me, so I quickly get up with him, so as not to wake up the other kids. We come in here and I start to work on the laundry, and watch the rest of the tv show.
4:30pm-Joshua and Hannah wake up, and start helping me put away the clothes away.
5pm-Talk with hubs on the phone. He is still at work, and we may or may not may it to church tonight on time. I debate the issue. I want to go, but I still have to file my state taxes ( have to mail them tomorrow, D'oh!!) for the business I just closed for 2011 and 2012. I also have all the laundry that I haven't done, and no one is ready to go, nor had dinner yet. I decide to get ready like I am going regardless, so we have time if I decide to go or stay.
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