It's 11:51PM on a Friday night. Here I am. The house is quiet. Everyone has been asleep for hours. I am exhausted but I've neglected my blog long enough. Plus I might as well stay up 8 more minutes now to wish my friend a
Happy Birthday on Facebook! :)
It has been an adventurous couple of weeks. Kaya has been playing Tball and I offered to help out as the team mom. Who would have thought they'd have 2 games a week AND a practice. C'mon - it's TBALL for the love of all things. It's been fun but go go go. Kaya had her kindergarten orientation today. I'm excited for her. The past 5 years have totally flown by. I look at Kaya every day and am in awe over her growth both phyically and in her personality. She only has 3 more weeks of preschool and we should find out by the end of the month what track she'll be on for school.
The stomach flu bug (not to be confused with the swine flu) hit our house this week. Emily kicked it off sometime Monday night/Tuesday morning. We didn't even know she had gotten sick until the morning when I went in to get my happy girl at her normal time. She got sick during the night and we didn't even know since she didn't cry. It was a lovely mess but she was in good spirits.
(A cute picture of Emily's CLEAN crib!)
Aaron came home from work on Wednesday afternoon since he wasn't feeling well. He was only home a short time before he was officially stricken with the flu bug. Approximately 2 hours after Aaron got sick, Logan came to me in the kitchen complaining that he didn't feel well. I didn't even have enough time to react. Poor guy. We ended up throwing away the kitchen rug. In the midst of cleaning up Logan's episode, Kaya got sick. All I could do was laugh. My poor family was falling apart. Even Nick wasn't feeling well. We lost count of how many times Kaya and Logan got sick. Poor things. They both slept well that night and rebounded the next day. Aaron stayed home a day from work and is starting to feel better. I'm the lone survivor at this point. I cleaned, sanitized, and washed every possible germ carrying item in the house. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
In the midst of the craziness I've managed to work on a few projects. Aaron and I built a train table for Logan to use with his Thomas the Tank Engine set. The kid needed a designated area to play trains. I was tired of him using my kitchen table and he was getting frustrated with Emily playing Godzilla to his train city on the floor. I got the design from my Aunt. I was pleased with the end result. So was Logan. It was totally worth it.
I also managed to designate a day to sewing. After sewing some patches on Aaron's scout uniform I decided to FINALLY sew a new bedskirt for our bed. The skirt that came with our comforter was not very well made and fell apart the first time we washed it. It was tolerable and I just left it. That was until Logan decided to make the barely noticeable hole bigger. I used the flat sheet that came with our set to make the new bedskirt along with a twin size white flat sheet I had bought a couple of years ago to make ghosts out of our trees in the front yard. It worked and I didn't even have to buy anything!!
So here's a BEFORE picture:
And the AFTER picture. Not too shabby. (Just don't look TOO closely!)
In addition to building and sewing I've been cleaning, fixing, and organizing. I was able to fix our dishwasher with the help of our cousin Brian over the phone in Washington. We also purchased an external hard drive for the computer to back up and store pictures and important documents. We decided it was time to protect ourselves in the event the computer ever crashed. With all the digital pictures now - it could be tragic. One more thing checked off the to do list.
Here is a picture of our family outing to find a night geocache.
As far as cleaning goes, I've been working on cleaning the grout in my home. I have A LOT of tile. Long story short - It's gotten so dirty in 4 years and the only way it's going to get clean is for me to get down on my hands and knees and SCRUB it. It's working. It's just time consuming. Especially with 3 little kids. We paid somebody to professionally clean and seal it 2 years ago. By the time they were done, it looked worse than when they got there. A TOTAL waste of money. So I've included a picture to give you an idea of how much tile we have. (This is about 1/2 of it)
I've also included a sort of before and after picture. It's really kind of gross to look at. You don't realize how dirty it is until you start cleaning. It's a work in progress...
Well, it's late and I really need to call it a night. Please forgive me for the long update and the terrible run on sentences. I write like I talk and I could NEVER make it as a professional writer!! Hope this post finds you well! Sleep tight!!!
Happy Birthday on Facebook! :)
It has been an adventurous couple of weeks. Kaya has been playing Tball and I offered to help out as the team mom. Who would have thought they'd have 2 games a week AND a practice. C'mon - it's TBALL for the love of all things. It's been fun but go go go. Kaya had her kindergarten orientation today. I'm excited for her. The past 5 years have totally flown by. I look at Kaya every day and am in awe over her growth both phyically and in her personality. She only has 3 more weeks of preschool and we should find out by the end of the month what track she'll be on for school.
The stomach flu bug (not to be confused with the swine flu) hit our house this week. Emily kicked it off sometime Monday night/Tuesday morning. We didn't even know she had gotten sick until the morning when I went in to get my happy girl at her normal time. She got sick during the night and we didn't even know since she didn't cry. It was a lovely mess but she was in good spirits.(A cute picture of Emily's CLEAN crib!)
Aaron came home from work on Wednesday afternoon since he wasn't feeling well. He was only home a short time before he was officially stricken with the flu bug. Approximately 2 hours after Aaron got sick, Logan came to me in the kitchen complaining that he didn't feel well. I didn't even have enough time to react. Poor guy. We ended up throwing away the kitchen rug. In the midst of cleaning up Logan's episode, Kaya got sick. All I could do was laugh. My poor family was falling apart. Even Nick wasn't feeling well. We lost count of how many times Kaya and Logan got sick. Poor things. They both slept well that night and rebounded the next day. Aaron stayed home a day from work and is starting to feel better. I'm the lone survivor at this point. I cleaned, sanitized, and washed every possible germ carrying item in the house. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!In the midst of the craziness I've managed to work on a few projects. Aaron and I built a train table for Logan to use with his Thomas the Tank Engine set. The kid needed a designated area to play trains. I was tired of him using my kitchen table and he was getting frustrated with Emily playing Godzilla to his train city on the floor. I got the design from my Aunt. I was pleased with the end result. So was Logan. It was totally worth it.
I also managed to designate a day to sewing. After sewing some patches on Aaron's scout uniform I decided to FINALLY sew a new bedskirt for our bed. The skirt that came with our comforter was not very well made and fell apart the first time we washed it. It was tolerable and I just left it. That was until Logan decided to make the barely noticeable hole bigger. I used the flat sheet that came with our set to make the new bedskirt along with a twin size white flat sheet I had bought a couple of years ago to make ghosts out of our trees in the front yard. It worked and I didn't even have to buy anything!!So here's a BEFORE picture:
And the AFTER picture. Not too shabby. (Just don't look TOO closely!)
In addition to building and sewing I've been cleaning, fixing, and organizing. I was able to fix our dishwasher with the help of our cousin Brian over the phone in Washington. We also purchased an external hard drive for the computer to back up and store pictures and important documents. We decided it was time to protect ourselves in the event the computer ever crashed. With all the digital pictures now - it could be tragic. One more thing checked off the to do list.Here is a picture of our family outing to find a night geocache.
As far as cleaning goes, I've been working on cleaning the grout in my home. I have A LOT of tile. Long story short - It's gotten so dirty in 4 years and the only way it's going to get clean is for me to get down on my hands and knees and SCRUB it. It's working. It's just time consuming. Especially with 3 little kids. We paid somebody to professionally clean and seal it 2 years ago. By the time they were done, it looked worse than when they got there. A TOTAL waste of money. So I've included a picture to give you an idea of how much tile we have. (This is about 1/2 of it)
I've also included a sort of before and after picture. It's really kind of gross to look at. You don't realize how dirty it is until you start cleaning. It's a work in progress...
Well, it's late and I really need to call it a night. Please forgive me for the long update and the terrible run on sentences. I write like I talk and I could NEVER make it as a professional writer!! Hope this post finds you well! Sleep tight!!! 
4 comments:
Great job with the train table! I wish that I was more resourceful and handy like that. I totally get what you are saying about the tile. We have a lot too and about once a year I have to get down there with a toothbrush to really get it clean. Your doing a great job with your family Heather!
I feel honored you stayed up late to wish me a Happy Birthday! :) Love the updates. I am sorry you guys were sick, but glad to hear it seems to be a quick one! I hear you about the tile thing too! Love the pic of Em in the crib. She is so dang cute!
You are so good at updating your blog! I am very random at getting anything posted. Had to comment on the fabulous train table... it is awesome!! Kids are getting so big... can't believe Kaya will be starting kindergarten. That is quite a milestone! Take care...
Hey thanks for the invite I will add you to my blog list. Watch for your invite, cause I am private that way we can keep updates and stay in touch. Hey I know all about cleaning the grout it is hard long work. Your floors look amazing good job. Your kids are so cute and so big. Keep in touch.
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