May 20th-26th

(5/20) Work day for Dad and me, and Kathy had the kids.  I forgot to put the stoplight clock out again, so C was up at the crack of dawn.  He was a total grump all day.  Yaaaay.  The littles took nice, long naps though.


(5/21)  C's teacher was out today so asked that I not come in to volunteer.  Sweet!  I met Sarah at her house and then we walked with her littles out to Starbucks and the park.  We were so impressed!  Jamie and another little boy went on foot nearly the whole way there. My littles don't listen well enough yet to trust them to walk along a road without a hand, so I just kept them in the stroller until we got to the park.  After the park we came back for nap and then grabbed C from school.

(5/22) Work day for me, and Dad had the kids.  I met the crew at hockey and took the littles on home.  They were FURIOUS!  They cried about going to hockey the entire way home.  And there was lots of traffic, so that made that drive extra fun.  Once we got home though, they were fine and we played a bit before bedtime.


(5/23) Work day for Dad & me, and Kathy had the kids.  I was off early and got to go shopping by myself before picking up the kids.  Finally got to the hardware store to grab some plexi for the china cabinet.  Got home and realized we didn't have a saw, so left it and went back out shopping.  Twist my arm and all.

(5/24) Yay, camping!  We spent the morning getting organized (spoiler: we weren't) and grumbling at each other about who should do what.  When we finally got on the road, we realized all the things we forgot, so this weekend should be interesting.  We first drove out to Leavenworth hoping to grab a spot.  We'd come through there a few years ago and there were lots available, so figured it was worth a shot.  Nope.  We were greeted with "Campground Full" signs and though we were equipped to boon-dock, we decided to go back to Sarah's site, where there was a guaranteed spot. We had to back-track nearly all the way home and then head out again.  We got there after about 5 hours of driving. We let the kiddos play and soon made dinner.  They played and played and played. At s'mores time, we fixed them up and then it was obvious the twins were tired.  Or at least J was.  So we decided to attempt bedtime.  Well D had just mainlined sugar and was full of bananas.  He was jumping up and down, hanging off the shepherd's pole in the trailer, flopping like a fish, etc.  J was upset about bedtime and had a runny nose which made him gag.  He threw up everywhere and then was more upset about that and cried harder.  We finally separated the twins and just went to bed.  It took about 2.5 hours of (them) sobbing.  UGH. Our friends were still out at the campfire playing Cards of Humanity, but we were just done, and not feeling very social.

(5/25) We were awake early with the birds, though the twins slept until C asked to get up.  Dad slept very poorly, and managed to tweak his back.  J wouldn't stay under the covers and kept waking and crying.  It was a bit drizzly this morning so we called it, packed up the camper, and went home.  C got to stay another night, which made him so happy!  We got home about nap time, so I made the twins a quick lunch,  and then put them to bed.  They slept much better for nap, and maybe it would have been better up at the campsite. I don't know.  Dad & I crashed too.  We had breakfast for dinner, after running out for more eggs (since D had spilled the ones we brought camping the night before).  Then bath time for the littles and bed.  They were awake for 2 solid hours again, but they can't do anything up in their room.  And it's fine to leave them.  In the camper they were swinging off the poles, turning on the water, getting into the cupboards, etc.  It would have been a disaster.

(5/26) Memorial Day.  We'll be spending the day trying to recoup from the weekend, and maybe finally getting around to some outstanding projects.