Can I start this day over?

My morning started shortly after midnight. Drew was up till about 2:30am tossing and turning on my lap because of a stuffed up nose. Once I finally got to sleep I woke back up at 5:30. I got Jake up for jazz band, stumbled out to make my coffee which I forgot to get ready last night, turned it on, came in to check my email only to sit for 15 min. realizing the coffee wasn't done. I forgot to plug in the cord.

I plugged in the cord, got in the shower, halfway mid rinse of my hair the hot water runs out. I finish rinsing in a cold shower. I get dressed and come out to the living room to hear my oldest complain about the shoes I just went and bought him last night for his band concert on Tue. (he was suppose to wear his uniform to school this last Tues. to show the teacher, but didn't have any shoes till last night cause he forgot to tell me, so he was going to wear his uniform today) The shoes apparently hurt his feet so he can't wear them. This is the same problem I have had with him the last 3 attempts at buying shoes. Fine, we will take them back and look for different shoes that will probably hurt his feet.

My bother stops to pick Jake up for band. Happy to get him out the door and thinking that the little kids are going to possibly sleep in for a bit I sit down to the computer to do a little surfing and out pops both boys. 6:40am Usually on days like this with early starts I have to go somewhere to save my sanity. Unfortunately for me, Will's car is not functioning so he been using the van, leaving me with no transportation. Uhg. It is going to be a long day.

Now I sit here and it has taken me 15 min to write a 5 minute blog. Drew is on my lap helping and I just realized I have 2 cups of coffee in front of me. I think I will need them both!

Well, things have been busy around here. Nothing too out of the ordinary I guess. The little boys have been really struggling with naps and sleeping in general. My mother-in-law told me they inherited that from their father. Drew has been taking naps off and on but when he does this is where he has chosen to sleep.

Right in the middle of the hallway. I can't get him to sleep in his bed. This is where he falls asleep at night too. I can remember sleeping in the hallway too when I was little. Strange huh? I guess he got that from me.

Brodie is officially potty trained now. On week 2 of underwear and so far we have been extremely lucky and he hasn't had any accidents. It is nice to have only 1 child in diapers. It has been 2 years since I have had that!

Tony is playing basketball now. He isn't really liking the team he is on. He has a kid who has been bullying him and we are now in the process of switching teams or having the other child switch teams. Tonight Tony was in tears cause the other kid put Tony in a choke hold and threatened him. Poor kid. He is really having a rough go of it here lately.

Jake is busy with jazz band. He has practice 2 mornings a week. He also is working on a culture project right now for Social Studies. His grades are slowly improving.

Overall everyone is doing fine. Looking forward to the holidays. I went through Christmas gifts today. I have gotten a pretty good start. Crazy to think it is almost Thanksgiving and then it will be Christmas!

I'll end the night with a picture of the projects the kids and I have been working on. The Indian corn was made by Tony, the small turkey by Brodie and the large turkey by Drew.

We had a busy and long weekend. Saturday I spent the day cleaning at my moms shop. Christmas is coming soon and that is her busiest time of the year. I will be helping out there now and then through the next couple months. Saturday night Will and his family went to his cousins school play in Indianola. I spent the evening with the younger kids and once they got off to sleep I got some work done on the ABC book I am putting together for Brodie for Christmas. Then once everyone returned home we played cards till 12:30am!

The boys were up early around 7ish this morning, actually sleeping in for them. I just couldn't drag myself out of bed since I have been only getting roughly 5 hours of sleep the last few nights. Will got up with the kids and I snoozed for another hour or so. I got some errands done this morning and then Will and Jake spent the afternoon at my step-brothers watching football.

Now its only 7pm and I am ready to call it a day. Sorry no pictures tonight. I am just too tired. Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend.

Totbook and Lapbook

Here is my other 3 tot books I have made for the little boys. I am planning on giving at least one for a Christmas present to Brodie. Drew is still a bit young I think. With the Cars book I made Brodie he tries to pull the pages off. Maybe in a few months he will be able to enjoy them too.

Here also is a turkey color matching game I put together for the boys. I printed the template off the computer onto cardstock, then colored it and had it laminated. I glued it onto this file folder. I have another one I want to do with ice cream scoops. It should be pretty fun too! I think that one I will do colors and numbers.

I struggled with a migraine off and on today. It never got real bad. I started a new medicine that I take when I feel one coming on and it seemed to work. Of course I had to take 2 doses but it is better then the other kinds I have tried that didn't help at all. Tonight it is a lot better.

The boys and I had fun making these turkeys today. Brodie is doing so good at gluing and making projects. His attention span is getting a lot better.

Tonight was family night. We took the boys out to dinner to celebrate Jake getting an A+ on his states and capitols test. I am not sure how he managed to pull it off but he did. When we went over it with him on Monday he got 19 out of 50 right. So getting 100% 2 days later is pretty impressive! It was his family night too, so after dinner we rented a movie. It was nice to just relax a bit tonight.

This was how Drew looked when he walked out of his bedroom from his afternoon nap the other day.

I hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween. Here is a picture of my guys on Begger's night. Jake obviously didn't go trick or treating, just hung out with his buddies.



We spent the night at my in-laws house on Friday. It was Begger's Night there so we went out for a short while. Then we spent the evening playing cards. Saturday was a lazy day and we spent part of the afternoon napping . The whole family has had the sniffles, Will worse than any of us. So it was nice to get to sleep. We went home in the evening and Jake had a friend over. After the boys went to bed I hung around and did laundry while Will played on the computer.

Sunday was lazy too, with all of us still sick. We didn't even play outside much and the weather was so beautiful. Maybe today will be better. I did get all my Thanksgiving decorations out. I can't believe November is here already.