Bob took Lorelei to Costco and Liam is sleeping, so, for the moment, it is relatively quiet. Molly and Maggie are drawing on the wipe off boards I bought them from Ollies. They have such strange conversations. Half the time one or the other (though it's usually Maggie) is telling the other what to say. For instance, Maggie will be drawing on the dot to dot board and say, "Say, 'What are you doing, Maggie?'". And Molly will say, "What are you doing, Maggie?". And then Maggie will answer, "I'm doing dot to dot!". Say "I want to do dot to dot!". And then Molly will say, "I want to do dot to dot!" And most of the time whatever Maggie has to say will start a fight, like, "No! Not until I'm done!" And then Molly, who only asked because Maggie told her to, will get all bent out of shape because she doesn't want to wait, even though before that moment she was perfectly entertained with something else. It's bizarre and annoying and it happens ALL the time. ... Now they are fighting because Maggie wants the board Molly has. I swear, it never ends.
I'm not in a very good mood today. I'm very tired and I didn't get to sleep in at all. I've been up since about 5:30 am, when Liam woke up and I didn't get to bed until around 1. And I have to do laundry, once Bob gets back from Costco because it's been a while. I have to wait, though because for some reason the clothes really stink - even the ones that are in the dryer that I've already washed. So I'm thinking I need some color bleach. I've been trying to wash everything in cold water but that just really doesn't do a thing for killing bacteria and germs, so every once in a while I have to go through and wash stuff 2 or 3 times.
Grrr... Maggie is having one of those days where she cries about everything. Great. Just great.

Body Orifices

Despite the title, the subject is pretty benign, but Lorelei keeps putting things up her nose and in her ears and, as always, in her mouth. I don't know if she started putting things in her ears because they hurt, or what, but she does it all the time - whatever she can find - usually crayons or chalk. And then lately it's been putting things up her nose. Last night she put two kernels of corn up her nose. Bob got the first one out pretty easily but she had to blow for a while before the second one came out (it was pretty far up there). When she finally blew it out, it went flying across the room. I was laughing so hard, I was crying, but seriously, how can I make her stop? I'm envisioning a trip to the ER...

Dishes

I took photos of my kitchen full of dishes this morning and if I can figure out how, I'll post them. They're for the people (if there are still any) who are laboring under the misapprehension that my house is always clean. It took me about 2 hours to get them done. I took an after picture as well, but what you don't know is that the dishwasher is still full of dishes and what you can't see is that the sink already has dirty dishes in it from making my kids' third breakfast (didn't know we had hobbits, did you?) and that in two hours, it would be time to make lunch. Granted I hadn't done dishes since Wednesday afternoon (or maybe it was Tuesday...) but still - it's a crazy mess to come down to first thing in the morning!

In other news, all my kids are sick. I took them to the doctor Wednesday and they put Maggie on antibiotics. I called today because it's obvious that the other kids have what she has and they told me to "observe" them over the weekend! Are you kidding me? Let me put them on speaker phone and you let me know when you're tired of it. I guarantee you in less than 5 minutes I'd have antibiotics called in. So we might be making a trip to the walk-in clinic this weekend.

I went to bed last night at 1/4 of 8. Lorelei didn't sleep soundly until after 1 am, so that meant that I heard her cry about every 1/2 hour to 45 minutes, but at least I didn't have to get up with her. Still, after 10ish hours of sleep, you'd think I'd be bouncing out of bed this morning. Nope. The two little ones are asleep and I'm contemplating a nap.

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Big Chicken Place

So, we're off to the big chicken place (otherwise known as the Curiosity Connection in the State Museum) with Faith and Angel. Right now the girls are dancing around to Shania Twain while they wait for Faith to show up. Liam is asleep in his swing.
He's been fairly fussy lately (for him, anyway - doesn't even compare to Lorelei) and I'm not really sure why. The other day I had to give him a suppository so I'm thinking maybe he's just constipated. Yet another kids with that issue - lovely. Anyway, I hope he does well today, because it won't be much fun if he doesn't.
I just remembered I haven't gotten the diaper bag together - better do that!
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Late Night Post

It's really late, so this will probably be really short, but I couldn't go a day without posting!! :) I didn't do much today. Took the kids to the doctor, Maggie is on antibiotics for a tonsil infection, Lorelei is teething (thought she had an ear infection). Tried for 3 hours to take a nap, but was interrupted every 15 minutes. Had care group tonight, which was a really nice break (thank you Dawn and Kristi!!). Am very thankful I married Bob and we have such a good foundation and practice of communication.

Accomplished

Well, I didn't get quiet as much done as I wanted to because Lorelei kept interrupting, but I still got a ton done!! I stopped doing finances when I needed to come up and make dinner. Although, lately it's been taking me a lot less time to make dinner than I think it will, so we've been eating a little early... I don't know if that's because I'm better at making dinner or worse and judging times.
Liam is still sleeping (I think. Either that or he's up there awake, just being really, really quiet, which he's done before...)
I'm trying to work up the motivation to do dishes. I'm tired. Don't know why since all I did today was sit at the computer and punch numbers, but I am. It's hard trying to work and take care of kids too! If I go back to school for accounting, I'll have to wait to work from home until the kids are in school or in bed. They might never go to school (outside the home) so then I don't know what I'd do. Probably nothing. :)
Considering I didn't do any housework and the kids were relatively unsupervised all day, the house isn't in too bad a shape. It helped that it was totally picked up to begin with. Hopefully I can get it picked back up tomorrow because I know I won't get it done tonight. (Lorelei just stabbed me with a pencil!)
Well, I guess I'll call Bob and see when he's leaving from work. Dinner might have to sit a little bit... or maybe I'll just start feeding the kids and get them in bed really early! :)

YES!!

Lorelei is asleep. Liam is asleep. Molly and Maggie are educationally occupied AND I finished doing last year's financial stuff!! :) YAY!! I'm so excited that I don't have that hanging over my head anymore! Technically I still have 401k and student loans to reconcile, but they will be easy (At least the student loans will. I would have done them, but I have no paperwork. The 401k stuff is confusing and maybe Bob will do that...) I'm going to run downstairs after I'm done posting and get this years stuff and try really hard to get all caught up!! :)
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Schoolhouse Rock!

My kids are watching Schoolhouse Rock! :) I found a complete DVD set on sale and bought it the other day. I have a feeling it will be a staple in our household...

Neat House

I still have to straighten Molly and Maggie's room and Lorelei's room (after Lorelei wakes up from her nap) but other than that, our house is pretty neat. I should empty the dishwasher so we can fill it as we need to and, of course, there's laundry that could be washed, but all in all our house is presentable.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about the toy situation, whether we move into the house we looked at or find another one. The kids have a ton of miscellaneous toys. And it's not that they don't play with them, because they do, it's just that they're the hardest things to keep picked up and organized. I think for the most part they will go into our "toy library" to be "loaned out" for an afternoon at a time. Eventually (at least with the other house) there would be room to have them all available again, but by then it should be blatantly obvious what the kids play with the most and I'll be able to get rid of toys with a clean conscious. I'm always afraid I'll get rid of something and the next day they'll say, "What happened to (fill in the blank)?" And I'll have to deal with all the stuff that comes after I tell them I got rid of it. By then Liam will be older and I'll be able to get rid of the baby toys as well.
I love getting rid of stuff. It's extremely cleansing and stress relieving. It's guilt that makes me hold on to as much stuff as we have.
Eventually today I really need to take a shower... yeah, haven't gotten one yet. There would probably be time for me to get a shower every morning without too much difficulty if I hopped in as soon as Bob got out, but most of the time I'm asleep, or mostly asleep then. And at that moment I don't really care. A few hours later I think, "Why didn't I take a shower when I had the chance?"
Well, I've been wanting some new books to read, so I guess I'll go see what's on the DCLS shelves for Dawn to bring me on Wednesday! :)
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Pagan Sunday

My kids are watching old chip and dale videos right now. We're not going to church because I'd really like this whole 10 day virus thing to be gone. I just can't handle dealing with that right now. Not that I'd ever choose to, but some times are better than others. So we're having another pagan Sunday.
If I get motivated enough I'm going to pick up the basement... it's a HUGE mess. I also need to go see my grandmother this afternoon. Right now I'm so tired I can't think about doing anything. All I want to do is crawl back in bed. Actually, I'd love to take a vicodin before I do, but that will totally knock me out for 4 hours. I really hurt where I fell on Friday. I guess there's always tomorrow to pick up...
There is a HUGE spider web in the window down here. I need to get the vacuum cleaner to deal with it, but the vacuum is up on the 2nd floor right now because we had to vacuum Lorelei's room last night because I was going through the shoe bin to find sneakers for Maggie and sand got all over her floor. So, needless to say, I'm not going to trot up and carry the vacuum down 2 flights of stairs.
I really, really hate being in pain all the time. I like to DO things and I feel like I'm either in too much pain to do anything or, if I do stuff, I know I'll pay for it later. It sucks.
Night before last all 4 kids slept all the way through the night (7:30 - 5:30). I have yet to write it in Liam's baby book (since it was his first time) but it was a night to remember!!
I'm really looking forward to getting rid of stuff in the yard sale, but I dread trying to price everything. I don't yard sale, so I don't know how much things sell for. I hope it's a success. I'm not even going to take anything back inside when it's done. It's just going to get loaded up and taken to Salvation Army.
I'm thinking I'll need babysitters that day - maybe 2 of them. I think Molly, Maggie and Angel Marie will be fine wandering around and walking back and forth from the lower yard to the house, ect (although maybe having Janet around to keep an eye on them wouldn't be a bad idea). But we definitely need people in the house for Lorelei and Liam. Maybe I'll see if Marti and Heather can do it.
I think if we do get the other house I'm going to take the carpets that are down here in the basement. I always planned on taking the 4 area rugs we have down in the TV room and office, but I'll probably take the one in the family room as well, unless the people specifically ask us to leave it. We're thinking we'd take the last set of shelves, toy chest and computer cabinet as well.
We probably won't even get it. We're only going to offer $130 and it's listed at $169. But it would be so sweet if we could get it and then sell this place for $200. Or even $180. I keep hoping someone will stop by the yard sale and offer to buy the place.
I am SO tired. I don't really know why because I thought I slept ok last night, although Liam was up once around 3 or 3:30. But I didn't even hear Bob get him or Lorelei up this morning, so that means I was really zonked out. That usually only happens when I'm just exhausted, so I guess I didn't sleep well after all.
I remember dreaming - I feel like I've been dreaming a lot lately. Maybe that's why. I don't really remember what I was dreaming, though. Which is probably good because my dreams are usually pretty disturbing.
I don't know why I'm blogging and not sleeping right now. I think if I went into the TV room at this point Lorelei would pitch a fit and want out of the pack-n-play (that she's in because she always pushes buttons on the TV). As it is, she's calling for me. And there's no really good place to sleep in here. There's the over sized chair, but I think I'd get a crick in my neck. Maybe she'll be ready for a nap soon.
I'd like to get to my grandma's by 3, if that's possible, so I can be sure to be back by 5 (probably sooner - it's so hard to hold a conversation with her and I doubt she'll even be out of bed). Maybe Mom will meet me there. That's a lot easier. And I can bring Liam's baby book to show her, so that will take up some time. I hate seeing her like that. She used to be so much fun to have a conversation with. She just doesn't remember anything from sentence to sentence anymore.
I really like the auto save function on here. I've lost many a blog to computer glitches before. It seems like it does it when there's a pause for a certain amount of time. Or maybe after a certain number of keystrokes. Or a combination of the two. Anyway, it's a nice feature.
I think Bob is still sleeping. He said he'd get up and take a shower so I could go back to bed, but I don't hear any water running, so he must have gone back to sleep. :( If I leave the house by two thirty and get up by two, if I can crawl back in bed by 11 I can get 3 hours of sleep. That ought to be enough. So I guess I'll go up and ask again at 10:30.
That's in 40 minutes. I wonder if I can get the basement cleaned up in 40 minutes?
Guess I'll try and see...
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