January 21st-27th

(1/21) Work day for Dad & me, and Kathy had the kids.  I bagged all the twins' old clothes and got together a SUV load to go to the Goodwill.  I packed that sucker to the tippy top!  The twins had a late nap at Kathy's, so they played while I was gathering stuff, and ended up going to bed late.

D yells "GET DOWN!" as they crawl along the bleachers.
I'm good with it.  They mostly stop where they should and have a blast.

(1/22) Work day for Dad & I had the day off.  I volunteered in C's classroom and Nanan came to stay with the littles.  She ended up not feeling well, so I came straight home after working in his classroom. After Nanan left, I did some furniture juggling.  I broke the bunk down that was in the twins' room and put it in C's, and moved the twins' dresser into their closet. They got a really late and short nap, and I had to wake them to go get C from school.

(1/23) Work day for me and Dad had the kids.  After I got home and had dinner, I put up their chalkboard paper on their closet and they had a lot of fun testing it out.  I didn't get much else done tonight, but I have the weekend.

The Moose loves his boys ~ he can leave if he wants.
The gate is childproof, not Moose proof. 

(1/24)  Work day for Dad & me, and Kathy had the kids.  Work had leftover bagels and that's what the big one demanded for dinner.  So I did up some fruit salad and voila, dinner. Bedtime came all too soon, and we were done for the evening.

(1/25) Hockey practice for C this morning and thankfully the sun was out and everyone was in a super mood. Practice went well, and we stopped at the store to grab a picnic lunch for the park.  Well... Chinese isn't much of a picnic food, but whatevs, we made it work.  During nap, I broke down C's bed.  He's super excited to move into the big bedroom.  I'm glad that he's excited.. but wonder what it will be like when the novelty wears off.   The boys played and played and played while I dragged furniture around and fixed up their new digs.  I'm really pleased with the outcome. Bedtime was interesting after all that.  The boys were all awake until almost 10pm shouting "LIE DOWN!" at each other.  Finally I told C he just has to ignore them to get them to go to sleep...  Everybody simmered down after that, and I didn't hear them at all during the night.

(1/26) Dad made us a yummy breakfast this morning.  C and Dad headed out shortly after for a hockey game (C got 1 goal + 1 assist today!). The littles and I headed upstairs to finish sorting clothes and getting C's old room cleaned out.  The boy room looks absolutely great, and I found lots of clothes from when C was the twins' age.  I have the next couple of sizes ready to go too.  After the littles went down for a nap, I ran up to my brother's house to grab the extra bed and C went to a birthday party.  I returned at dinnertime, and sat down to dinner with Dad and the littles before running out to grab C and snacks for game night tonight.  We broke earlyish because most of us have to wake up early.  Man, we're getting old.


(1/27) Long day ahead.  Dad & I will be taking the PRIDE training course today.  27 hours of lectures on deck this week.  Kids are with Kathy all week, and there is no school Monday.... uhm, good luck!


We are getting certified as foster parents to hopefully welcome a school-aged girl into our home.  It's about time this house had more estrogen!   (Hence the movin' and shakin' going on in the house this week)

Running the hall at hockey practice.