This has been the busiest week that I can remember for this Grandma. Our day begins about 6:30...everyone crawls into bed with grandma for snuggling! Then, it is out to the kitchen for breakfast. Breakfast has been a variety of fresh pancakes: Plain ones, blueberry ones, or chocolate chip pancakes. I've been informed that I am the best pancake maker in the world! Even better than mom and the chocolate chip ones are the best! Then it is time to clean up, brush teeth and pick out clothes for school. I drop them off at the front door of the school. I dash home, try to clean up the kitchen, pick up clothes, make the bed, pick up more clothes, more toys. Soon, it is noon, and I wonder what I've been doing all day. All too soon, 3:30 arrives, and then they are home from school and it all starts over again. They wrestle, fight, eat, play, fight, and fight and then we go to the hospital to visit mom, dad, and the baby. (He has a name: Preston James!) The hospital is in another town, about 45 minutes away from Britt. The boys love McDonalds...and I feel so guilty, but, they get burgers and fries! Yikes, I feel like I just got the kitchen cleaned up from breakfast....so, works for me. Besides, they just beg us to stop. By the time we get back home again from the hospital, it is time to get ready for bed. This involves more wrestling, more fighting, more wrestling, more crying...chasing them down for pajamas and finally getting a snack and getting their teeth brushed. Normal bed time is 8:00; but, if they get into bed by 8:30 or 9:00, I am happy! I bet you think I lay in bed with them and read, don't you? Well....NOT, if I did, I'd be the first one to fall asleep.
I've been a little sleep deprived the past few days. Last night at 2:15 a.m. Jaxson came into our bedroom. He was sobbing like crazy because his socks fell off in bed! OK.....I told him to go back to sleep; cause I really didn't care if his socks were on or off. No dice for him! He is all about drama and we had to go find his socks so he could go back to sleep! (I know exactly why we have babies when we are young now...) He got back to sleep; after all I found his socks. Well, me, not so much.
Today, Preston and mom get to come home. However, the big brother is at grandma's house all day. He is sick with strep throat! Oh, when it rains, it seems to pour, doesn't it? We are doing a low key day devoted to feeling better. We worked on his snowman project. I let him use the low temp. glue gun for this. He loved it. I think Frosty turned out pretty good. We found some wool for the hat and scarf.
At noon, Mark the UPS man delivered a chair that I'd ordered from Target. Leave it to a young man to get in the middle of putting something together.
Doesn't this look like fun. I think about now is when I was saying something like SLOW DOWN...We have to make sure all of the parts are in the box ...and no, you can't jump on the pieces!!!
Why is it that kids always get better as soon as they go to the doctor? I had the sad news of telling Jennifer that she might want to consider getting Jax into the doctor...He decided to use his big brother's tooth brush! Not exactly the news she wanted to hear on her homecoming day! I've volunteered to keep the boys another night...after all, sick big brothers shouldn't be around the new baby.
Sewing and Quilting....look for more updates soon. Right now, I've got two wild boys to chase down.
