Just annother day...

I feel so tired tonight, but thought I should record the events of this day as they feel very "normal" to me. To anyone else it probably isn't worth reading, but I wonder if in twenty years I will remember these days fondly.

Grace started crying in her crib just after six am, but I let her fuss until the two big girls came in reporting that one of them had wet the queen sized bed they share. I won't say who, but this person has never before wet the bed, so it was really out of the ordinary. I got up, stripped the bed and started a wet load of laundry. Next I made flower-shaped pancakes and showered the offending bed-wetter. It was still dark outside.

After getting the girls off to school I canceled my appointment at the gym due to a terrible cough coming from little Gracie and, instead, ironed a huge basket of laundry (including the pillowcases and duvet cover from the wet bed).

Next I got dressed and drove kindergarten carpool pickup.

At 12:30 we met three neighbors and their kids at the park for a picnic. Gracie ran into the parking lot three times before I noticed she was there.

Next I ran to Gap for some price adjustments on items that had gone on sale- I saved 28 dollars, thank you very much. (*side note* remember when it was "The Gap"?)

From 2-3:30 I did general housework and pickup. I also hunted for the charger to my iphone. I did not find it. Grace had it the last time I saw it. She thinks it is a necklace.

At four o'clock I took Caroline to her piano lesson, picked Brin up from a neighbor friend's house, dressed her in her soccer uniform, loaded the soccer chairs into my car, picked Caroline up from piano and then picked up a neighbor girl for soccer. It was 4:40 and Grace was still napping, so I called Heather to come home and watch her during our games.

Caroline and Brin have games at the same time and, since Jeff is out of town, I ran back and forth from field five to field sixteen to watch both games. I missed Caroline scoring two goals, but got to see Brin get her head stuck in the goal net.

Immediately following the game we drove to Hillcrest for Brin's "end-of-season" pizza party at the park.

By seven thirty we were home and ready to start homework, only to find that Gracie had taken her diaper off during nap time. You guessed it- more wet laundry for mommy. While I stripped the sheets off the crib and put the other sheets back on the queen bed Caroline read her math lesson for the first time. She had been called out of math class to join the gifted and talented program and this was the first I had heard of it.

Then we designed a book report.

I read to Brin, remade the crib, brushed everybody's teeth and now I will begin the glamorous task of emptying the dishwasher. If I'm lucky I'll get to watch a Frasier rerun and finish a sudoku before I fall asleep.

Ten Years of the Chub

Caroline turned ten on September 14th and to celebrate we took ten friends to Trafalga, a local fun-center.

The girls ate pizza, waited 30 minutes in line to drive go-carts only to find they were each 2 inches too short, hit balls at the batting cage, mini-golfed, had ice cream and cake, and played video games in the arcade. My highlight was discovering my hidden tallent at "Dance Dance Revolution".

The First Day of School

After returning from Arizona for my Grandpa Lisonbee's funeral, Montana for a family reunion, and Mia Shalom for Young Women's camp I was ready for August to calm down and for school to begin. August 20th came and Brinley started kindergarten, or as we call it, "Brindergarten". Caroline was thrilled to begin 5th grade. Because they attend a local charter school they wear uniforms, which makes getting dressed easy and inexpensive for me. Love it!

Caroline decided to cut nearly four inches off her hair at her back to school haircut. Love it!

Montanna Maddness

In early August the Burkes descended upon the Brady cabin. Beverly's sister, Libby, and her husband own a beautiful cabin and acres of land where the two families played. Campfires, food, games, fishing, stories, hiking and relaxing!!! We're still waiting for the bill to repair the rental car Caroline hit with a four wheeler...

Catching up

Now that the Halloween decorations are out in stores I figure it's about time to wrap up summer. Sadly, I haven't recorded as many memories as I would have liked, but here are some highlights.

In Early July our neighbors joined us for our second "paint a giant flag on the driveway" party. I was secretly uptight about the kids "doing it right", but it turned out great and everyone had fun time. Except that it was 100 degrees, even at 7:00 pm. To cool off the kids turned on the sprinklers and got soaking wet, which is why you see parts of the fresh paint running down the sidewalk.