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One of those days

It was one of those days that went from okay to bad to worse to ending just fine.  Lee went to go visit a friend for the weekend. Last night Victoria had a sleep over and I fell asleep with Jake watching TV.  I woke up at 12:45 and he was still watching.  Victoria told me when I picked her up that she stayed up late enough to watch the date change on the clock.  Two tired grouchy kids and one grouchy baby was not fun.  Added to the mix was one crazy two year old.  We survived.  House isn't as clean as I wanted.  but I did get some projects done like getting the Christmas lights down off the tree, picking our condo for Spring Break and writing a letter to a collection agency.  I also fed the kids and did a batch of wash.  Took three out of four kids to Target and went to the bank.

Tomorrow we will pick up the house and have dinner with my mom.  I should have found a sub for my class but with nine o'clock church that is really unlikely.

Something happened today which made me go snuggle with the older kids (who were in my bed watching ice skating).  One of the mom's in my mom's group lost her husband to cancer today.  When I found out suddenly it didn't matter that my house was cluttered. It didn't matter that my kids were grouchy.  All that matter were my kids.

Thursday was a rough day.  The little boys didn't want to nap.  One mess after another.  Then I read this.
 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=905554612810326&id=816943141671474&substory_index=0

  It was just what I needed to hear when I needed to hear.  Life can be so short.  WAY WAY TOO SHORT

Funny story today/   Over the pat few weeks I have noticed that Luke and Andrew are interacting more.  Today they were chasing each other around the couch.  Luke was laughing so hard a few times he had to stop crawling and just lay down and laugh.  Cute boys!


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