Bella, Gabe and Josiah

This last week has been spring break. Seriously, spring break is way more fun when you’re not the one who has to figure out what your kids are going to do to stay out of trouble while you’re working…  Now that Bella is 16, she can get an actual job, so she started working at daycare. This was her first week, which meant that she had to do all of the paperwork, which caused all sorts of drama. But at least she has a job, a way to earn money and a place to go both for spring break and for the summer. Gabe, on the other hand, does not. The church his school is at put on a VBS for four days, so he went to that, but they were done at 12. Normally he’s done with school at noon, but he goes over to my friend Angela’s house for a couple of hours. However, she has five kids, and the big ones were all also at VBS and her husband was out of town for a funeral, so she didn’t have enough seats to take Gabe to her house. So my schedule for this week has been too work for home from 7-7:30am, then get

Gabe has been asking for a Revolutionary War Jacket for months, but I’ve been telling him that he should have gotten into the Revolutionary War before Christmas and his birthday. However, Gabe’s best friend’s grandma happens to be an amazing seamstress and decided to give it a try. I’m totally impressed. And he’s loves it! He’s now ready to go fight the British!

I have a giant photo dump today… Josy wasn’t feeling the best, so Pat and the other two skipped church to go skiing and he and I skipped church to make sure that he was feeling okay. So we went out and got coffee and then came home, sat in the floor and watched Bluey. Josy’s version of a perfect date. Poor Freddy is going to get loved to death… We made Ukrainian food, in honor of what’s going on over there right now. Gabe was in charge of pounding down the chicken breasts. Now that it’s light again, it was time to take down the Christmas lights, so the boys turned into Christmas trees. One of them was more excited about it than the other one. We found the cat tie that we’d gotten Max year’s ago, so clearly Freddy needed to try it. It makes him look so fancy! The boys pulled out their bikes. Josy is now quite convinced that he needs a pedal bike just like Gabe. I feel like that’s a pretty cold place to read… Josy loves sitting in Chambers! Such a little gentleman. Every morning they ha

When I was in college, my Mom sent me a care package with a giant cow in it. It was huge. But yes was cute and snuggly and I loved him. In fact, I carried him with me when I came back from Oregon and he’s made multiple moves with me. However, he almost met his end when he ended up in the garage and he’s gotten pretty gross and dirty. I almost threw him away, but Pat suggested that we try and save him. So he ended up in the wash and came out so nice and clean that he deserved a new life with a new little buddy. Gabe has lots of stuffed animals, even very large ones, so we decided to give him to Josy.  He loves him. Morning snuggle time got way more complicated. Gabe brings Timmy. Josy brings a giant cow. And then he insisted on going to sleep like this every night. Silly kid. But I’m glad that he’s happy snuggling with my cow.

Sometimes I need to just write down all of the craziness of my life so that I can remember these days in the future. Because life is crazy and two little boys are dramatic and entertaining and that doesn’t even include the drama of a teenager, so happens to be out of town right now. And these things aren’t bad, they’re just life. We have all been rotating who had been sick since we got covid mid-January. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I have been home with sick kids a lot and while it’s nice that I can work from home, I really prefer to be in the office and too many days working from home is really hard on my head. So I’m ready for all of these illnesses to be better so that life can go back to normal. Last week I was Monday because I was sick, in the office Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday I left for the afternoon because I’d had some cysts on my head removed so I had a headache and needed to lay down, and I was home with sick kids in Friday. I literally was in the office for 2.5 da

Bella turned 16 yesterday. It’s crazy how fast life goes. She was 4 when Pat and I started dating, 7 when we got married. And now she’s old enough for a drivers license. She left the morning of her birthday, so we went out to celebrate on Saturday night. We got pho, her favorite, and then we went and got froyo. Josy did think the froyo was a bit cold. Granted, he had too big of a bite in his mouth and rather than take it out, he held it in his mouth telling “cold!!” He then drank everyone’s last drops from their cups, collected them all and threw them away for us. She was super excited for her present. I’d actually bought this for her back in November and then a month ago she mentioned that she wanted it for her birthday. Perfect! Then on her actual birthday, we made egg sandwiches (even though she wasn’t around for it) since that was what she requested for her birthday dinner for multiple birthdays in a row. I can’t make egg sandwiches without thinking about her birthday.