a day in the life

of a wife and mother

Sunday, July 31, 2005

We got a lot accomplished this weekend which was so nice to finally be able to say that. Saturday my niece, the kids, and I all went to Old Navy and used our 20% off bags. I could live at Old Navy..it is my favorite store ever!! Anyway..we went there and I got each of the kids two pairs of jeans and a couple of shirts to start school with. I'm not real big on getting them lots of things before school starts because last year I got Lee a bunch of pants for school and by November he was too tall for them...we will just pick up a pair here and there and they all have a few pairs left from last year too. Now we just need to work on getting school supplies bought and we finally got there supply lists in the mail yesterday so we are set to go.

Today we moved the boys' furniture down to the main floor of the house and they now get to go back upstairs and pick all the crap up off of the floor and decide what it is they want to keep and what they want to throw away. Little by little this week we will start moving our stuff upstairs so by this weekend we will be all done moving furniture and everyone should be situated in there new rooms.

Riley, her friend, and I also did a bunch of baking this morning. They wanted to make cupcakes, so we did that and then I thought maybe we should make some muffins and then I thought cookies sounded kind of good. I think the girls had fun..they wanted to keep finding things to bake..I had to stop them because I don't want all of that garbage sitting around the house..I don't need it and they don't need to have all that sweet stuff sitting around for them to munch on while I am at work during the day.

I hope all had a great weekend!!

Friday, July 29, 2005

BORED.....

I am so bored right now at work...

All the uppers are gone on vacation today, so it is pretty much a slack day. But it is getting really boring..there isn't a whole to do as far as stuff I need to do..it has taken me a whole 30 minutes to get done what I needed to today. I have been alone in the office for the last hour (there are four of us who share a office)..two are on vacation and the other is at lunch. I am hoping I can stay awake..boring!!

This post is exactly how I feel..haha!!

Riley called me right after I got back to work from lunch and wanted to bake a cake at our house with one of the neighbor girls..now she has never baked anything by herself and she is only 9. I'm not thinking so...I do tend to like my house!! haha Lastnight she helped me 3 cakes..two for my niece to take to work with her and 1 for one of the girls in the office for her birthday...so Riley thinks that we need to just bake away now. Hopefully by the time I get home she will have forgotten all about it and the fact that I am bringing leftover cake home with me. KIDS!! haha

I should go surf the internet for a little bit before I go to break..the one I so deserve today!!
I am so bad at writing stuff down on here...sometimes I think that I should just stop doing mine and just continue reading the blogs that I enjoy. I always think I should go write that down and then I don't..I guess I'm just lazy!!

Well only 4 more weeks of summer vacation and the kidlings head back to school..part of me is ready..part of me doesn't want to deal with the hassles in the morning! This year Ryan will be at the middle school with Lee and so he will have to get up at 6, so that he can get dressed and eat some breakfast before heading to the bus stop and Riley will still get to sleep in until 7 and it will be just me and her until she goes to the bus stop and I leave for work..hopefully Ryan will be more willing to get up in the mornings..he is the only one I have to fight with.

We started some of school shopping the other day. The kids all have there new tennis shoes and Riley is pretty much set..she just needs a pair or two of jeans and she is done. The boys each just need a couple of pairs of pants and then they will be set until they start outgrowing everything by November at the latest!! haha They just grow way too fast..especially Lee he is getting so tall and he is now about 2 inches taller than me..which I am not really liking!! haha

My sister has come and gone for the summer and so now I can finally get a chance to deep clean my house..we were busy every weekend so it would just be a quick run through on cleaning and you can tell it now!! We also decided to switch bedrooms with the boys..they have the whole upstairs and they want to be on the main floor..so we are going to go upstairs this weekend and start going through all of there stuff because it won't all fit into our bedroom..which I love throwing stuff away so I will have a blast up there!!

I should get back to work..or supervisor is gone today so kind of a sluff day!!