A totally random Day

It was a totally random day here in the Laundry Pile. Isn't it amazing how holidays can throw off the mental map of your week?
We had speech therapy on Tuesday. (Which I kept referring to as Monday)
We had Dentist appointments for Mini-Me & G on Wednesday. Which seemed like Tuesday.
And today -- well, why should today be any different?
We did a wee bit of school work this morning...and then in a moment of free time - the kids started bickering. So we went to the post office and pharmacy. We got home and I had a brilliant thought - Hair Cuts!

Mini-E was looking at me through her bangs - so I called to see if our favorite place was open - and we got an appointment for 40 minutes later. We dash in the house to get diaper bags and shoes.

The postoffice and pharmacy trips were drive-up affairs - no shoes necessary.

G, J-man & Mini-E all got hair cuts - and we came home and the littles took naps and the bigs did school work.

I looked at our next curriculum and tried not to feel daunted at starting a new task - because I don't feel I've done a very good job with this last task I had.

I'm still not sure what our ratio of school days to non-School days will be like...but we'll definitely be doing something this summer.

I'm way behind in my blog commenting and I'm sorry. I've been reading lots -- especially when I eat - but that doesn't give me oodles of time to comment. I'm here - and enjoying my blogger buds. Keep me amused!!

Off to do something else random -- I just don't know what it is yet.

Wordless Wednesday - Recycling, sort of...

What do you do with a vinyl table cloth that's left over from a shower?

More Wordlessness can be found at 5minutes for mom & Wordless Wednesday

Tackle It Tuesday - Garage

While the kids were sick last week, we didn't get much accomplished. But there was one day - that I had an inspiration.

The kids had been asking to play with their legos and their wooden train set. "Where" was my number one question. My mom had always been telling me that we should just make a room out of the garage - especially since we weren't parking in the garage.

Last week -I tackled it. We had a relatively good day, as far as every one being happy, so I started moving things around. Pretty soon I had an empty place and let them play in the flat hard surface. They put together a giant train track. And got covered in gray, garage dust. So I had to put something down. The professor, all the way in California, suggested astro turf. To Lowe's I went. Astroturf, at Lowe's, has the same backing as indoor/outdoor carpet and the professor didn't want carpeting - for concern with mold/mildew.





Lowe's had a nice subsitute. Foam flooring. Waterproof and washable. This first picture - was taken with my cell phone. It doesn't show the play place in it's "glamour" but they had a blast.



Then I discovered that I could move the christmas ornaments out to the shed where The Professor has been storing his office stuff.

So then we had a bit more room.



It still looks like a garage - but now we can play legos and set up train tracks.



I'm going to get rid of some child-sized chairs and we're going to hang up the adult bikes to get them out of the way -- and pretty soon, we'll have it just the way we want it.



I need to get a bigger fan to blow air on the hotter days, and playing out there won't be a good thing on hot days in late summer - but right now - it's the best place to play (as it's been rainy). We can even lock out the little kids so the big kids can build Tall lego towers. They even got the tinker toys back out. They've had picnics out there.. and Mini-E likes to go out and just dance in circles.

It's nice to get the garage tackled...it's something I've been putting off.

Oh - that black trash basket - holds rescue heroes.

Here's another view to show that it still looks like a garage. The kids don't mind, though.

To see what others are tackling - click on over to 5minutesformom.

Happy Memorial Day!

Finally

When you read this - I think my family will be back to "Normal for us" - Finally.

This virus that the littles had was painful for them...but I believe it's finally going away. Of course, I've been believing it was going away for about a week now. It made life interesting around here. Several times during this week, I had both of them sitting in my lap. There's not nearly enough room in my lap for 3 of us. E, J & Me. It got crowded. Today was the best day - we even managed to get some school work done.

We'll probably stay away from the nursery at church for one more week, just to play it safe. The closest thing we came to sharing our germs was to make a dash to Wal-Mart. I did smear Germ-X on the basket handle and wherever Mini-E might have touched before I put it in the basket return.

While bein' healthy around here makes me happy, hopeful and something else that will happen will be:


The Return of the Professor! Finally!

<---------- Happy Danicing!! He's been in California all week. (he left Sunday morning early) He was in training on how to be a structural specialist responding to an emergency.

He'll be one of the guys looking at the building saying where it's safe or not safe..or even if it's safe at all.

With him being gone, I had no back up. I missed him. Praise the Lord for my mom who came up on Wednesday to let me take a nap.

Combine his goneness (new word - just made it up, whatcha think?) with the sickness of the Little ones and their not sleeping... Let me tell you- I am one very Grateful Laundry Keeper.

The professor is handy to have around.

He'll get up in the mornings with the kids.

He'll rock babies - even in the middle of the night.

He makes koolaid.

He does dishes.

He does Laundry -

(though, maybe not to Laundry Keeper standards - it's still helpful at times.)

He cooks.

He dishes out drinks.

He lets me go to Bible Studies while he watches the kids.

He mows the grass.

He kills bugs.

He builds things.

He makes me laugh.

He listens to me think.

He encourages me.

He believes in me.

He loves me.

Okay. I admit it.

I'm spoiled.

You may call me:

I can totally hear Thoughtful thinking -'Yea, princess with an attitude!'

and yes, That's me!! Couldn't find it in blinkie form.

I know that I wonder if I am appreciated more when I return home from an absence. After this week, I have to tell the world, I so appreciate all that he does.

I appreciate him so much, I'm thinking of leaving him with all 4 kids on Saturday.

All Hail! The Professor Returns!!