Hello, my name is Sheila and it has been 18 days since my last post...

Is there an anonomous group for chronically bad bloggers?

The last few weeks have been extremely busy. Since my last post, our daily schedule has been in a total uproar. Ken's work shedule has changed on a day to day basis. So I never know when he will be home or for how long. Which, as far as therapy appointments, dr's appointments, dental appointments and the everyday stuff that seems to come up, it's really a pain. Cause when it comes to making appointments with the military system, it's not like calling a regular "free world" doctor. You can't just call an leave a message and expect to get a call back the same day by someone. You're lucky if they call you back in three days. And as far as making an apptment, they call you, not you call them. And if they pick a day, you better hope your schedule is free cause it may be another month before another appointment becomes available. But I digress. Anyway, we went to the Valley this weekend to visit my family. For those of you who don't know where the Valley is, it's way down there at the tip of Texas by Mexico. Anyway, our dad lives down there as well as some cousins and some siblings. I hadn't been to the Valley since the oldest boys were 6 months old. So almost exactly four years. When I started figuring it in my head that way, I couldn't believe how long it had been. So, me, my mom and the four kiddos piled into HOWhee, the van, and took a little trip. And I have to say, it was so nice having an "RV" to travel in. While the babies slept most of the way, the boys watched videos. When the kids got hungry, we just stopped along the way and had sandwiches and snacks from the fridge and warmed up bottles for the babies in the microwave. And I don't have to tell you how nice the potty breaks were. No public restrooms. So nice.
We left Friday morning and got there that afternoon. We stopped in at the airport to pick up a rental car for my mom. It was her birthday (on Sunday) and she really wanted to toodle around and visit some old friends. So that evening we just kinda hung out at dads house. My sister daisy and her family came over and my Cousin Claudia and her family came over. They each have three boys. The oldest boys will be six next month and the youngest are 9 months and 11 months old. So our boys had a blast with all the kiddos around. My dad had an in-ground trampoline and they had so much fun jumping on that thing. Ken and I want to install one in our back yard. Saturday was cousin Sammy's birthday party. All of the cousins, friends and neighbors were there. My brother and his kids even came over that afternoon. The boys had a blast! We got home waaaayyyyy past bedtime and the boys were exhausted. Sunday everyone came over again and we BBQed and the kids played and played. By the time Monday rolled around and it was time to go, the boys didn't want to leave. And I don't blame them. We were suppose to leave on Sunday, but my mom called in sick and I canceled Niles therapy and we stayed till Monday. We had so much fun! We plan to go back soon but Nile has surgury coming up on the 28th, so it will have to wait till at least his recovery is over with.
Which leads me to our next subject: Nile's surgery on his feet is schedule on the 28th and this week has been jam packed with dr apptments and MRI's and preop apptments. Sigh. It's been hectic. And next week will only be worse. So I'm getting really anxious and nervous about that coming up.
But I gotta go now. A messy playroom has been staring at me and haunting me all morning and I can't take it anymore. I hope to have more pics soon so check in later. PEACE

Today is my birthday...

...at least for the next 2 hours and 55 minutes anyway. And I have to say that this was one of those days where you wish you could just crawl back in bed and hide under the covers. It started out really bad. Really bad. I've had minimal sleep for the past two weeks and last night was no different. My attitude was just...horrible this morning and I think the kiddos picked up on it cause their attitude was horrible as well. I could not get a thing done and James and Jonah were on opposite nap schedules. One was sleeping while the other was up and vice-versa. Early in the afternoon after looking around and seeing ... a pile of dishes still in the sink, a dishwasher that needed to be unloaded, a load of dirty diapers that needed to be washed, a playroom that was a disaster and believe it or not...and I hate to say this... but I was still in my pajamas and hadn't even brushed my teeth yet... I decided I was letting all of that stuff stress me out. I was getting aggravated because I wasn't getting anything done. And I wasn't getting anything done because I was getting aggravated and that was being reflected back in my children. They were getting aggravated and whiney and acting up. So I just said...forget it. I'll do it later when the kids are asleep and right now I'll just relax and play and enjoy the day. And you know what? My day got better. It actually wasn't to bad after that. My mom even stopped by after work to help with bath time and bed time. Which was a blessing. Everyone got bathed and there was no acting up or whining or crying about going to bed. It was pretty stress free. Aaaahhhhh.
And so... gleen what you will from that run-on paragraph. I'm going to have some sunflower seeds, watch Law & Order and chill out cause the diapers are done washing and ready for the dryer, the dishwasher is cleaning my filthy dishes that sat all afternoon, LOL I've had my shower, have clean pj's on and it's not quite time to brush my teeth yet. Oh, the playroom is still a mess, but if I cleaned it up tonight, it would just be a mess by midmorning tomorrow anyway. So I'll shut the door and not worry about it.
Sleep tight.

ps...I finally made those brownies I mentioned in a previous post titled " A really lame post", they were sooooooo good and easy to make. There's not much left. Just thought I'd let you know.

Spring Break is over and it's back to school...

...for Nile and Noah. They were really excited about seeing their friends again. And we were excited about getting a little breather...ie...only having two kids instead of four for the next few hours. It gives us a little break to do some of the chores that get put off. Like changing the sheets on all of the beds, washing the comforters, hanging out the laundry....stuff like that. Although, I still haven't got the latest load of laundry out on the line yet. But that's because Jonah didn't take as long of a nap as he should have and he's in his excersauser right next to me. Happy...happy...happy. Actually, he has that look on his face. You know the one that says...I know you just changed my diaper but...
I hear James stirring...BRB.

It is now three days later. I didn't get a chance to "BRB". Sometimes that happens. You wouldn't believe how many Blog drafts I have saved on here. I started one the other day about something that happened during nap time. Here it is:
March 18, 2008
Baby blankets...we had a bit of a scare with a baby blanket. You know the kind that you usually get as baby gifts. They have ducks on them or balls or stripes or whatever. Anyway, we had put James and Jonah down for a nap the other day. They were in a little onsie so we put a little baby blanket on to cover their legs. They were taking a good nap. It was one of those wonderful days when they actually sleep for about two to three hours. So I went in to check on them and James had the blanket wrapped around his head and neck. It was wrapped around about two times! I had to literally unwrap it from his neck and face. Scared the ... poopie outta me. He was still asleep even after I got the blanket off, but I woke him up just to make sure he was OK.


My (phone) alarm is going off. Gotta pick up the boys in about a half hour. So gotta make this quick or it will go back into the draft file. LOL
Anyway, things are chugging along here. The boys are back in school and Tuesday and Thursday mornings are a race to get them out the door. For some reason, no matter how early I start out, the time just flies by and I'm racing to get everyone loaded into the car to get them to school on time. Not much has been going on around here. We didn't do much for Spring Break. Ken and the boys planted a small vegetable and flower garden. We can't wait for some tomatoes. One day we all went down to Landa Park. It was so nice. There were alot more people than we thought there would be, but we found a nice spot under a tree and had a picnic. Or tried to. For some reason, every bee in the county decided they liked our little spot. So we ended up packing up everything in the van and Nile and Noah and Ken went to play while I sat relaxed with the little ones. We stayed for about three hours. It was a nice day out. Can't wait to do it again. This time, when there's less people there.

All the boys are growing fast. Nile and Noah are growing so fast. They spend most of their days either outside, if it's not too hot. Or in their playroom doing arts and craft stuff. Noah is quite the little artist. He loves anything that has to do with colors, markers or paints. Right now he's into glue sticks and making different pictures with colored paper and other ...stuff. Nile is still into his cars, action figures and any kind of bug he can find to put into his little bug habitat. Unfortunately it's up to me to remember to let the poor little bugs go. Sometimes...I don't remember. Poor things.
James and Jonah are six months old now. James has mastered the art of rolling back and forth. Jonah is just now getting it but doing just fine. They had been sleeping through the night, but for some reason last week, Jonah would wake up about every two hours. Drove me nuts! I was so sleep deprived, it was like having a newborn again. Man I was draggin'. But, they both slept through the night last night. Jonah didn't wake up till 4am and James woke up at 6am. So I got about six hours of sleep last night. Not bad.
Well, I gotta go get the kiddos. James and Johah are napping...sigh...I gotta go get them and load them into their car seats. I hate having to haul them out when they finally settle down for a good nap. Sigh.
Gotta go!