Day 3

The kids have had a good week so far. Yesterday you could see tiredness in all their faces. And this morning it took a bit to get them out of bed. Well Kaylee and Mikey anyway. Lexi woke me up. Oops. I worked late last night, didn't get home until 11pm and wasn't ready for sleep until almost 12:30 am. The hubby tried to wake me but failed. Tonight will be another late night and I'm sure to be zonked tomorrow. 

We got our car back yesterday.  They changed out the coolant reserve and recharged the ac. Driving it this morning, the ac works fine. No strange noises. I hope this fixed whatever the problem was. I am thankful we have the little red car though. It would be so tough again if we only had one car.

I don't have too much to do today. I plan to try and clean up a little bit and I've been trying to do some organizing. I would like to take a nap but that is always last on the list. I need to vacuum but I may need to wait on that. I am just very tired.

Time

5:30- Up for the day

5:40- Armed myself with my camera and headed upstairs to wake the kids.

Lexi was already awake and fixing her hair. Kaylee procrastinating waking up. Mikey just gave me the deer in the headlights look. Maybe because my camera flashed so much before it took the pic.

5:55- Kaylee finally up

6:00- Mikey in the shower
Kaylee came downstairs and she said she was ready. But no brushed teeth or hair. Sent her back upstairs.

6:10- I put dishes away as Lexi made her breakfast.

6:20- Mikey appeared and Lexi was making sure he has everything. Check, check, check... oh wait no locker lock.

6:21- begin search for lock.... underbed... in drawer.... closet.... bed.... window.... drawer again.... bathroom (yes, you would never believe stuff we find there).... closet again... sisters room. No lock in the end, even though he just had it 2 days ago.

6:45- Finally got Kaylees hair brushed. And shes asking again if it is time to go.

7:00- Kaylee just asked again if it's time to go. Mikey just came and asked too. I haven't seen Lexi in a bit, she is probably slathering on the makeup. I finally finished my cup of coffee, time for a refill.

7:15- Lexi says they are leaving, going to ride the bus.

7:17- I notice they didn't take their signed papers and I still had Mikeys schedule. So I told Kaylee go yell at them to come back.

7:20- Gave them their papers and lexi $5 for a library fine she already paid.

7:27- Dropped a nervous Kaylee off at school.

7:33- Back home and peace and quiet except for the news channel running in the background.

The calm before the storm

Relaxing today as tomorrow will be chaos. It is the first day of school. So back to waiting in the drop off and pick up lines. Waiting for kids to get home from the bus. Homework, papers that need parents signatures. More school supplies to buy for the two in jr high.

I'm excited for the kids but I will miss their company. I'm nervous for Mikey as it is his first year of jr high but I know he will do fine. I'm nervous for Kaylee as she will be all alone in elementary, but I know she will do fine. I'm nervous for Lexi as it is her last year of jr high and next year she will be in that big high school. But I know she will be fine. They will all be FINE. I hope they all do well this school year and succeed.

Tomorrow will be a busy one. Take the kids to school and then I have to take my car to the shop. Yesterday on the drive home it was overheating.  We are pretty sure it needs a new coolant reserve as the current one has cracks. We also plan to have the ac serviced. And it could be all linked. Maybe a fan or a clog but we wont know until we get it to them. I will also need to take the jr high kids for any school supplies they need. Then on thursday I have 2 meetings to attend. One for kaylee and one for lexi. Hopefully we will have the car back by then.

So it will be a crazy week with back to school and then work on top of that. Car problems. Tiredness from the kids.

Yesterday I was able to take Mikey and pick up his glasses. I'm glad they were quick to get them to us since he really wanted them for the first day. He says he can see really well now. He didn't realize his vision was bad.

Cleaning

I got to sleep in until 9:20 this morning. I had been waking up at 8 the past few weeks, so that was a treat. But I did have interrupted sleep last night. I woke around 1 am to go to the potty. Then at 6 this morning because Ella was awake and crying. Thankfully she went back to bed after I laid her back down and covered her up.

So when I was finally up for the day I got the babies ready for breakfast. While they were eating I vacuumed the floors. After cleaning up the twins we all three headed upstairs to go through Kaylees toys. I've been needing to do that and we ended up tossing out a bag of junk. I am glad that when Kaylee woke she didn't protest what I was doing. After that was done we headed back downstairs and I started cleaning my room. I got sidetracked after deciding to switch purses. Then I finally got back on track and got my floor vacuumed and then decided to clean the twins room. The twins room took alot of time. I sorted their toys and then put some toys away. Toys we can pull out in a few weeks and they will be like brand new to them.

Lunchtime came around too quick. And the babies didn't even really eat. It irritates me when they do that.  So I just told them fine they could go play, their not going to starve in a few hours.

I have been trying to do a photo challenge for 2014 and I have fell so far behind. I hope to catch up. It will be awesome to have a book of things from the year. While I like this challenge im doing I plan to seek out a different one for 2015. Maybe I will just fly by the seat of my pants and make my own.

Ready or not

The kids start school in 3 days. I took the oldest two for their physicals. I am glad that was quick and easy. I actually just stayed out in the waiting room with the three youngest while they went back. That seemed easiest. So that is done and marked off my mental checklist.

Kaylee had her meet the teacher this evening. She was very excited to see all her teachers from last year. But not so excited about meeting her teacher. I'm sure when school starts she will be fine and learn to love her wonderful teacher.

Now the only thing to do is have a good nights sleep on sunday and wake up bright and early on Monday morning. Oh and hopefully pick up Mikeys glasses on Saturday. 

Today was just a super fast day off. I got laundry done again. Dinner cooked again. Cleaning done again. Kids taken care of again. And a million other things NOT done. Things I wanted to get done.

I am trying to make a picture for my wall. Its going to be on canvas with the kids handprints.  I really hope I can accomplish it Saturday evening or Sunday. 

Another

Another eye exam and this time it was for Mikey. He said he didn't need glasses that his vision was fine but I told him he had to go anyway. And the verdict.... he needs glasses. He actually has a astigmatism.  So he got to pick out glasses which took a flat 3 seconds. The first pair he picked up, he tried on and liked. I asked him or really told him to try on some others to be sure. He did and still chose the first pair.  I suppose he already knew the look he was going for. I just hope now that they all have glasses they will be responsible of them and take care of them.

Today is Wednesday and I have still not taken the two oldest for their physicals. I will hopefully do that tomorrow. I had planned for today but I am zonked. The twins are on a really wacky sleep schedule and according to Mike they went to sleep around 5 am. I believe next week is not going to be fun since we will all be getting up very early for the school schedule. I am not looking forward to that.

Tomorrow evening I get to take Kaylee for her meet the teacher night. I think she will be excited. I hope she's not nervous and that she remembers where to go on her first day. She has always gone to school with a sibling and this will be the first year that she doesn't. I hope it will let her come out of her shell a little since she is on the shy side.

1 week

One week until school starts. I feel like its here too fast. Thursday I get to take Kaylee to meet the teacher night.  It will be exciting for sure. Even though Kaylee just told me today that school and boring and teachers are boring and on and on and on. I guess she was just having a moment. So one week and I still have to get Mikeys eye exam done, which hopefully will take place tomorrow.  And I need to take Mikey and Lexi in for physicals.  I just keep dragging my feet on that one.

I got my eyes examined today and should have my glasses in a week. I still need to schedule Mike an appointment to have his done. I also need to find a primary doctor for us and set appointments for the both of us.

Yesterday we got rain. It made for a nice day. I am ready for fall. Ready for the cooler weather. The kids are looking forward to going to fright fest at six flags. I am too because I have never been. Which reminds me I should set aside extra money for the haunted houses.

Roadtrip

We are planning a vacation for March. It will be an adventure for sure. We plan to visit 7 states! We have never taken our kids out of state, so to say we are excited doesn't cut it. I am excited because I will get to put one more state visited on my list, Florida.  At this time our rough route is through lousiana, thru Mississippi,  Alabama,  to Florida,  to Georgia,  Tennessee, Arkansas and then home. Things will seem alot less boring if we make our way thru many states, rather than drive from a to b and then from b to a. It will be new scenery the whole trip.

The rough draft at this time is to drive from Dallas to Pensacola.  But I know once I look into the road we will travel, there will be places we will want to stop. Including somewhere in there a overnight somewhere. I get nervous driving through large cities, for example when driving through dallas I freak out and get lost (my kids can vouch for that when we made a trip to the museum), when we drove through Houston one year I pulled over on the out skirts and had the hubby drive.

So drive from Dallas ro Pensacola.  While in Pensacola we will stay 2 nights so we can visit the beach and other sights. Although I think it will be too cold for the beach but we will have to see. Then from Pensacola we will drive to Georgia where I will get to visit filming locations from twd. And we want to visit Six Flags over Georgia.  That will be awesome, they seem to have some pretty awesome rides. So more than likely we will stay 2 nights in Atlanta.  Then drive thru part of Tennessee, through Arkansas and home.  It should take a week or a little over. I know I repeated my self from the top, oh well. Thats what happens when you try to blog before work and save and then dont read over what you have typed already.  Ha. 

Hmm

We have had a lazy week. Monday I slept in and I'm glad I did, I was tired. I worked that night too and we were super busy. My night was a blur.
Tuesday I took the older girls to have their eyes checked. Both ended up needing glasses. I think both of them were happy about it too. I know kaylee was.
Wednesday I got up and put dinner on in the crockpot and we had a lazy day until Mike got home.  Then the girls and I were off to six flags to ride some rides and have fun.
Thursday I got up and decided to take the little kids to the splash pad. We got there and got sunscreened on and then figured out it wouldn't turn on. We were all sweaty by the time we were headed back to the hot car. Once we got home I was  trying to decide what to do. We were going to head up to the city rec center but Lexi had just took a shower and she would have had to help out so we just decided to fill up the water table and have fun. They had a blast. Lexi stayed the night at her aunt robins last night so she could babysit her cousins kids today.
Friday, I slept in this morning and it was very nice. Had a good breakfast with the twins and then we went out and played in the water again. After we came in I fixed lunch. Now im relaxing before it's time to head to work. The whole work thing is becoming annoying, ha.
Mikey came home today too. So good to see his face. I got a really big hug from him too. He said he started getting home sick last night. Im happy he is home. I worried about him and he finally called yesterday. He had been gone since monday.
Tuesday I get to register my jr high kids for school. Ready to get that done. I also plan to take Mikey on tuesday for his eye exam. He says he doesn't want glasses. I told him if he needs them he won't have a choice. We shall see.

School

School starts in 3 weeks. I really can't believe it. Makes me a little sad that we will be back at the hustle and bustle. I know Lexi is ready, she is missing her friends. Mikey is nervous since he will be at a new school and that he will be in jr high. I'm sure it's that kind of giddy excited nervousness.  Kaylee will be in her same school but all by her lonesome. It will be a big change.

Friday I took the big kids shopping for school clothes. That was fun yet expensive! I still have more to buy them. I'm pretty much done with Kaylee and about half way with the other two. I am done with supply shopping for Kaylee and have bought some things that I know Lexi and Mikey will need.

I worked all weekend. A long day yesterday and today. Yesterday was the teacher breakfast we have every year. I was happy to be in my department and not having to mess with all the craziness.  At least that day is over for another year! Speaking of another year, I celebrated my 6th year at my job, really crazy. I'm happy to have a stable and secure job. I'm thankful for having a considerate boss too. Not everyone does!

I work tomorrow and then I will have 3 days off! Yay! I have a meeting on tuesday for Mikey with athletics. So far nothing planned for Wednesday or Thursday. I think we might just stay home and be lazy. Maybe a trip to six flags in the evening, but thats still undecided.

Well I need to watch my show I put on.