Eden just finished her second week of school. I love it. I have all day to do my chores, drink my tea and educate Kaitlyn and Nick before I have to pick her up. Last year is just a miserable memory. My disorganization, Kaitlyn always feeling gyped on time for homeschool and Nicks naps interrupted are a thing of the past. We started the year with a bang just the way I had planned in a previous blog. I bought a closet bag organizer, went together with my mother-in-law to make sure Eden had enough clothes to make it until I catch up with laundry and then some, I bought a huge calendar and hung it on the inside of the pantry door and loaded it with the special days I must remember things. I baked banana spice bread for the fall festival and delivered it on time. I have remembered the Friday folder and kept everything in it's place so far. I do not know if I will continue in this vein for the whole year but it does feel very good so far.
Jody's mom and step-dad came for a visit recently and on the last day of their visit I had a little inspiration. As Maureen came out of the kitchen I popped my belly out as far as I could and gently rubbed it while saying"You know Maureen, we've been meaning to tell you..." She almost fainted. I laid in bed that night getting spurts of giggles over it. It just cracked me up to no end.
On that topic, my dear little brother Daniel and his wife Hannah are expecting their first baby! Apparently she has had the worst possible morning sickness, finally having to be put on prescription meds. Poor thing. I never felt good during pregnancy but luckily never puked.
I was sitting here the other day plunking around on the computer and looked up and Kait had her body half buried under the buffet. Suddenly she shouted, "guys come here, there's something very MYSTERIOUS under here!" It was an old egg sack from a spider.
WE went to Sam's Club last night and Kait wanted to buy a flat of gatorade. Jody foolishly told her that if she could pick it up and put it in the cart, he'd buy it... She couldn't so she moved over to the vitamin water which had fewer bottles and carried it over and slid it onto the bottom of the cart. Jody kept trying to argue and tell her that she hadn't put it in the top. The little spunky thing had gumption. She told him she had it in the cart and it still counted. Jody was trying to figure out how to avoid spending $13 on humming bird nectar so I said, "hey Kait, how about organic chocolate milk instead?" She just grinned and said "okay, but I'll get it" and marched off. Dad always said I was the biggest little kid he knew. Well, I guess Kait's the biggest little girl I know.
Nick runs non-stop. He runs circles around the house, upstairs, downstairs, through the store, down the driveway, here, there everywhere. We have a rather belated 2 year checkup coming up and I predict that he hasn't gained an ounce but has stretched 2 inches. Nobody can believe how little and agile he is. All of these thundering 18 month old boys seem to tower over him and just fumble along while he can climb anything, run as fast as can be and looks like he's about a year old. It's kinda funny.
Eden brought home the Friday folder last night and she had finished the sentence: In first grade, I want to learn... so she put "too be smart." The teacher put a smiley on it and wrote "you ARE smart!" I thought it was cute.
Finally, there has been a theft in our little world. Some Nazi stole my bumper sticker.... if you follow my political blog, check it out. I went crazy on craigslis.
