8/31/2009

So I must have jinxed myself.

All of the excitement of school beginning jinxed me. I now have three sick kids thanks to school. Ahh yes, the back to school germs. #2, #3, and #4 are sick. I feel bad for the baby because there really is nothing that can be done. I woke up at 4am to feed her, only to have it all come back thanks to all the snot that was in her tummy. :o( I hope that this school year isn't as bad with the illnesses as last year, but it is not starting off so good.

I have been cleaning like a mad woman, perhaps that is why the kiddies are sick. Maybe I should have left all the cute little dust bunnies. Maybe I erased all the good germs and that left the kiddies susceptible to the bad germs. Hmmm, maybe cleaning really is bad for your health. LOL I want to paint frick and frack's room. Currently it is pink with princess murals on the wall. That is great for Allison, but Nicholas is really not liking it. Poor guy is sick of being in a pink room looking at "those stupid princesses!" as he puts it. So I am thinking either of green or a tan color to paint the walls, then I am going to try my hand at making them each a rag quilt. Nick loves anything military relates, so definitely camo and Allison is happy with anything girly, but not babyish because she is 7 you know. I will put up pictures of my progress to share with you, hopefully I won't drive myself too crazy. ;o)

Holly

8/26/2009

So I am one of those parents.

I swore I would never be one, but I should know better than to say never when it comes to anything child rearing related. Yes, I am over the moon that today is the first day of school for frick and frack. I swear I thought I was going to lose my mind these last couple of weeks. All they did was fight and argue. I finally gave up and quit trying to break them up and you know what happened? They eventually stopped beating the snot out of each other and played nicely. It is times like this that I really miss my mom. I wish I could call her and ask what she did with my siblings when they fought. Today marks the fifth month since she grew her angel wings and I am actually doing good. It was raining this morning, perhaps it was mom crying because she wasn't with us today. My daughter thinks that when it rains it is because Grandma misses us.

I am very happy that we had no tears this first day of school. I was a little nervous because frack has to take a bus to his school, but he was fine. He climbed right up and sat down in his seat then waved with a big grin on his face. He really thinks he is something special because he gets to ride a bus everyday and his sister does not. Frick shed no tears either as she walked to her building. For Kindergarten it took over two months before she stopped crying in the morning, 1st grade 2 weeks, and now she is in 2nd grade no tears, she didn't even want or need me to walk her to the door. When I asked her if she wanted me to walk her, she just said "No mom, that's okay, I'll be fine." As proud as I am that she was okay, I think part of me misses the sweet little girl who cried when she had to separate from me.