None of it's good...

An acquaintance and I were at t-ball practice for our five-year-old boys last week. He also has two older children that are the same ages as my older two. We were watching our young sons out on the diamond as they were interacting with each other and other teammates. I made the comment that it's amazing what the younger ones pick up from the older ones. At that moment my son decided to stick his tongue out and razz another kid. The acquaintance added, "And none of it's ever good." Amen!

Tidbits

I should be better about posting, but when my house looks the way that it does, taking time for something like a blog seems a luxury I should do without. We spent much of the weekend sorting through and trying on spring/summer clothes, and replacing the winter clothes currently in the drawers. The winter clothes also have to be sorted by what might fit again next year, along with what to do with those that won't. I currently have tubs and boxes of clothing pretty much everywhere, and the house wasn't all that clean to begin with! With temps in the mid 80's over the last weekend, putting it off wasn't an option! We also needed to get screens in windows and I should start some spring cleaning...eventually. Yesterday I realized that the garbage disposal has a hole in and water shoots out if we run the disposal or dishwasher. So I've been hand washing lots of dishes (we can use the water in the sink as long as the bucket is under the disposal) but I don't seem to be able to catch up on that either. I also insisted on hanging laundry out on the line over the weekend. The drying racks were completely ineffective because of the 30 mph winds we had going through. So I had to use our rather short clothes line, and just keep checking so that I could replace a dry item with a new wet one. And with lots of the flu last week, we had plenty of laundry to be done! We are gone pretty much every evening with the kids having ball practice. Last night all three had practice, along with one having team pictures. Tonight my husband has his grad class, and two kids have team pictures. Wednesday brings my husband having a meeting, one kid at ballet, one at guitar lessons, and one at ball practice. Thursday my husband has conferences, and we have a ball practice. Friday we can relax, then Saturday is opening day, so there is a parade and three ball games. As much as I would prefer that my house be all picked up and sparkling clean, I just refuse to allow myself to stress about it!

I miss the days...

when just a kiss from Mommy could make the tears stop flowing. They grow up too fast.

Family update

I'm happy to report that everyone finally seems to be mostly healthy today. My husband missed both Tuesday and Wednesday at work, and the little guy missed Tuesday also. Everyone is back at school, although HT still seems to have some stomach issues. We were very grateful that it rained during the day and practices were canceled on Tuesday. Other than that, our lives have been pretty unexciting, and our evenings have been spent mostly at the ball park. We have one more week of practice, and then the season begins May 2. No schedules have been provided yet, which is really a pain. With three playing it doesn't really matter though...I just plan to be at a diamond. The schedules coming out only provides clarification on which one!

Prayer request update

Last week I mentioned that our friend was in the hospital, but that surgery had gone well. I've just learned that an infection has developed and this is definitely a set back in her recovery. She is still in the hospital, and had hoped to go home tomorrow so the family is, needless to say, very disappointed. Any prayers are always appreciated!

Sick kid

It's currently 4AM, and I've been up for the last hour with my sick kid. This time it's the youngest. He gets EVERYTHING that goes around. I'm just grateful he didn't get it right after JR last week and he was able to enjoy all the fun of the weekend. My husband and I aren't feeling so well ourselves so we'll just see how today goes...

Fun Friday

Yesterday was a really, really fun day, although the beginning not so much so. We awoke to HT covered, absolutely covered in hives. We had a meeting at school for him so I went there and my husband took the little guy to the doctor. It's definitely an allergic reaction to something, we just aren't sure what it might be. We are guessing it is either the antibiotic he was on for last week's impetigo, or it could have been the strawberry he ate this week. Either way, we are hoping it starts to disappear today. And the meeting at school went well! After that we took HT to breakfast at Bob Evans, which is pretty much his favorite restaurant. Next came a quick trip to Target where we found some great movies for only $5! Once we came home, my husband decided that since we had some coupons, he was going to go ahead and buy me what I wanted for my birthday. So after the trip to the store, he returned with a wii! I LOVE IT! Last evening we hosted a skating/birthday party for the youngest two. So many friends came, and it was just a terrific evening. JC also got to have a friend spend the night. I wasn't surprised that the kids couldn't sleep last night. Even at my age, I was so wound up from all of the fun things that I had trouble falling asleep!