The Six of Us

Last day of school.... What an amazing year these two had.  They have grown so much and I am so proud of them.  This year has had it lows and highs but we survived.    

Just got an email stating the amount of our bonuses.  It is three times what I guessed it would be.  I am so happy and overjoyed.  The money will be going into our vacation account.  Then after all the vacations are done and over with for the summer I will take a look and see what is left over.  I am assuming there will be some left over but, vacations are always more then you planned on spending so we will see.  I am working at the hospital for the next two days.  Then one more shift on the 31st and then nothing until 4th of July.  It will be nice in June to focus on having fun and working just one job.  I am guessing that the judge next week will order me to move a child to Tulsa.  I don't want to move another child but then time I am going to fly in one day and out the next.  I don't really have anything I want to see or do in Tulsa.  Plus the town I am going to is an hour away.   Anyway, I need to have the hou...

In order to get new floors and paint we have to pretty much move everything into the house into the garage.  "Movers" are coming tomorrow.  Dressers need to be moved and will probably won't be accessible to the kids.  So I came up with a plan.  Actually I saw my aunt do it years ago on vacation and I was going to try it on our trip up north but now get to try it early.  I have a million gallon sized bags.  So I wrote the days of the week on three sets of bags and then each bag has a whole outfit for a kid.  So in the morning all they have to do is find the bag with their name and the day and poof there is their whole outfit including underwear and socks.  I think it will work well and I am excited to make this packing thing easier.  Lee suggested I should have used shopping bags that we have a ton of.  Yup probably.  Would have been cheaper for sure. 

So for the next several months I have a trip planned every month.  April-New Orleans May-Spokane and Kamiah (two different trips) June-Silverwood July-The beach August-SLC (I hope) Plus I am hoping for a trip to Oklahoma in May or June.  Try not to be too jealous. Plus this summer I want to go up to Seattle.  I love traveling and wish we could do more of it.  I wish I could take the kids more places.  But at the end of the day my kids have far more opportunities then the kids I work with.  We are blessed.  One of these trips I am really stressing about.  But that is a post for another day.  Looking forward to my next two trips.  Nice hotels good night sleep.  :)

Today Lee took the cat to one of the store managers that he works with.  The older kids wanted to go as well.  I wanted to go but Andrew was napping and you know what they say about waking a sleeping baby... So it is just me and sleeping Andrew.  I am doing laundry on batch #5 and deep cleaning the kitchen.  Next weekend we will have company who are coming down to help with our floors and maybe painting.  We have huge plans I am just not sure it will all come to be.  We were going to go pick out floors today but Lee's dentist appointment went way longer then we ever imagined and then there was the dropping off of the cat and now Lee and the kids are at my parents so Lee can mow the lawn.  Soccer game starts at 4 so there is no way we can make it to the store that we wanted to by the time it closes.  But I am hoping that Lee will be up for going to Home Depot to at least look and get some ideas with me.  But maybe that will have to wait fo...

Find out your baby is allergic to cats you need to do the following:  (or we do) 1) Cry 2) Immedicately make the cat an outdoor cat 3) Find somebody to take the cat 4)Realize you have super amazing friends who are willing to help with following: 5) Replace Carpet 6) Replace Mattresses 7) Wash walls 8) Paint Walls 9) Get overwhelmed The end!  We are hoping we can get most of this done in the next ten days!