Morning 2 of flying solo,

but again I made and easy lunch and breakfast for the kids! Little man stayed home again today because his fever is still up in the 100's but that didn't last long. Then on a whim I took Gman and CJ's, both of their's was in the 100's too. I think Gman's was even 101, but I just dosed them with Motrin and sent Gman off to school! 

Thinking CJ may have a chipped front tooth!!

Then CJ, Little man and I hopped in the van and headed off to CJ's farm field trip! We got lost and were almost late but I finally figured it out and we got there! It was so hot and so humid and so stinky!!! CJ loved it but I was miserable! Poor Little man stayed in the van the entire time (almost 2 hours). The highlight was that CJ got to see piggies and be the first one to ride a HUGE horse - he actually volunteered first - I was surprised!!! Then we came home and hung out for a bit. Then ran out and got the boys ice cream for Mickey's and a coolatta for me then to Giant Eagle to get my medicine! Then back home and I tried to work on laundry! The kids started coming home and I made pizza for dinner and then grabbed a shower. Then it was time for R and I to her band concert! I had S watch the boys so that I could go by myself. R and I got home about 9PM. Now I just baked a double batch (store bought pouches) of banana muffins for lunches tomorrow and now I'm headed to my bed to read and then fall asleep!!

Solo today

Woke up and did the morning routine solo today, thankfully I had easy lunches planned and easy breakfasts!! Little man is still running a temp so he's staying home from school today and I'm gonna run him to the doctors as soon as I get Gman on the bus. Speaking of Gman he is so excited, he has a field trip today to Vale Wood Farm - it's a dairy farm. He had so much fun and even got to touch a cow's "gutter" (utter), he described it as feeling squishy and rubbery!! We made it to the doctor's office just before the walk in clinic opened and they were already slammed! Ugh!!! But we didn't have to wait too long. They took a swab of Little man's throat but the strep test came back negative - after talking with him she thinks he might have mono - WTH!!! So if he runs a fever through Wednesday we have to go get blood work!! We came home and chilled the rest of the day! Once S came home I headed up to the track to walk, it was miserable - so hot and humid!!! Then it was home to make spaghetti for dinner. Grab a quick shower and then Gman, CJ and I headed out to S's concert! R stayed home with Little man. We were there till 9:30PM - it was soooooooooo long!! CJ finally fell asleep at about 9PM. The boys were really good though. We came home and I put the 2 boys to bed and then I headed to my room to read for a bit and then fell asleep myself!!!

Ugh today was such a long day!!

It started with my alarm going off at 5AM so that I could have R to the Jr High by 5:45AM to board the bus for Band Fest, she was going to spend all day in Oil City. Then I came back home and climbed in bed and daddy offered to do both morning shifts for me since I had to get up early. Well he lucked out with S and only had to make her breakfast - no lunch because she was going to be at IUP all day for a choir thingy! Then he got back up with the boys and gave them breakfast and started making them lunched! Little man's was easy because he was going on a field trip today to Yellow Creek park! Once everyone was off I sat down and started going through 3rd grade end of the year party stuff and finally decided to fill out the form I need to use the cafeteria! 

As I was in my office my Oriental Trading order showed up and all 120 personalized pencils were spelled wrong!! WTF!!! So I called them and had them reorder the pencils and express them to me - they should be here by Wednesday! Then Callum and I ran out to ship the wrong pencils back and to drop off the form at East Pike! By then it was almost 2:30PM and I rushed home and exercised real quick. Took a shower and then got ready to go to R's concert! Daddy picked S up at the high school at 3:45PM, came home and I left at just a little after 4:00PM! I had almost a 100 mile drive to Oil City ahead of me! It was the worse drive ever - so hilly and curvy!! I made it on time though and got a great seat and the show started at 7PM, the 6th graders did good - but I literally drove 5 hours to listen to R play for maybe 25 minutes! The concert was done by 8PM and R and I were on the road home! I took a different way home so it wasn't quite as bad but it still took us for ever! We got home at about 10:47PM and I went straight to bed! I was beat!!!

Is it Friday yet??

Ugh I did not want to get up when my alarm went off this morning - I especially didn't want to make scrambled eggs for the kids lunches! Thank goodness I had some hard boiled eggs in the fridge I just subbed them! I went back to bed and tried to fall back to sleep but it didn't work to well!! So up I got again when my 2nd alarm went off!! Once we got the bigger boys on the bus I took CJ into town to school and then came back home and walked on the treadmill for 45 minutes! Then I photographed my week 16 PL pages and then messed around on youtube for a bit. On the way back into town to pick up CJ, I saw S and her Spanish club walking along Philadelphia street headed to Cozumel's for their lunch "field trip", I was gonna honk but I didn't want to embarrass her!! Once I got CJ picked up we headed to daddy's Indiana store and picked him up for lunch! We went to Mickey's and while we were waiting in line to order the electricity blinked off and on! So we finally got our food and sat and ate. Then we took Daddy back to work and then headed to Wal Mart so I could pick up some yogurt, bananas and lemon bars - the lemon bars are GROSS!! Then once back home I worked on the boys laundry and then catching up on posting my PL pages, my project love me photos and this blog! I made taco's for dinner and then at 7PM Little man and I ran into EP for a band meeting, we were there for an hour and then I dropped him off home and I ran back into town to drop off some stuff for Tim at his Indiana store and then I headed to Mickey's for an ice cream cone!

So today was even busier then yesterday, if that's even possible!!

Getting the girl's lunches packed and breakfast made was pretty normal and then when the boys got up I wanted to make sure I caught Gman before he went to the bathroom because I wanted to catch his p.e.e., well I got it and stuck it in the fridge. Then at about 8:05AM I started calling the office and I kept getting the "closed" message - UGH!!! Well we got Little man on the bus and them me and Gman and CJ in the van and headed into town to drop CJ at school. While waiting I FINALLY got through and they wanted him to have a appointment but we couldn't get in till 2:45PM. So that meant Gman was gonna have to go on CJ's field trip! So Gman and I ran back home to put his p.e.e. back in the fridge and for me to grab a tea and then we headed back to CJ's school! We walked to the library and the kids listened to like 4 stories and got a little tour of the children's library and then it was time to walk back to school. For some reasons the teachers didn't want to have a snack on the courthouse lawn - I was really bummed! So Gman and I headed to Mickey's to get a drink and then back to pick up CJ. Then we came home and had lunch and then hung out till we needed to head to the doctors! So we got there early and I took the boys into Wal Mart to get some granola bars for snacks then we headed to the Doctor's office! We saw Dr. Katie and she said Gman's p.e.e. was "clean" so there was no infection but she was stumped about the "goo", she thought it might be yeast, so she gave us an antibiotic cream and a yeast cream. But as we got to talking and we were discussing some of his symptoms she thinks he might have an urethral stricture - a narrowing of the urethra, so she referred us to a pediatric urologist at Children's Hospital! We go May 5th. It's funny because when Gman was about 2, I had him there for a suspected UTI and again his p.e.e. was clean but we discussed the stricture then too!!! So then we came back home and did the normal night time stuff!! As we had just come out of the doctor's Heidi called me and told me that one little girl in Little man's group didn't have a shirt and I offered to buy one and just make it, she was to just let me know. Then when I got home I had a message from the other little girl in the groups mom who also had questions about the shirt! Then when Little man came home he told me that S's shirt issue had been worked out so I forgot about it and then he brought home the other little boys shirt and I made it. Then Gman and I ran out to Giant Eagle to get his medicine and then it was home to cook dinner - chicken nuggets and beef ramen noodles! Daddy got home about just before 8PM and he put the boys to bed for me. Then I was in my bed by like 9PM and fast asleep!

Field trip day!

Finally a day that daddy didn't have to leave early!! It was so nice, I prepped a few of the stuff for the kid's lunches last night so I didn't have much to do this morning. After I got done with the girls I headed back to bed and when my alarm went off at 7:30AM I got up and got straight in the shower!! Then I got out and daddy make me some frozen waffles for breakfast and then I finished up the boy's lunches!! T got the 2 older boys on the bus and then CJ and I hung around for about 30 minutes because he didn't have "real" school he had a field trip today!! So we left at 9:00AM and I dropped his tuition off at the school. I ran by Giant Eagle and picked up T's medicine and then CJ and I headed to S's School of Dance and waited for others to start arriving...well I was messing on my phone and not really paying attention and finally at 9:23AM I was like "WHY IS THERE NO ONE ELSE HERE!?!?!" - so I pulled up the school's newsletter real quick and SHIT!!!! we were at the wrong dance place!!! We had like 6 minutes to book it across town to SH's Dance Studio!!! Ack!!! We made it one minute late but that wasn't too bad!!! CJ was fine and having fun for about the first 10 minutes and then he started crying and crying!!! I took him to the bathroom and then made him go back in but he just sat their beside Mrs. Solbowleski and wouldn't participate!!! Finally about the last 5 minutes he did!! 

I was so pissed at him!!! Then we ran to Michael's and then Wal Mart and then to McDonald's for lunch!! Then it was home where I worked on Gman's album and a little bit of laundry! I made spaghetti for dinner and then T came home at about 6:30 - 7PM and brought me all kinds of sweet treats!! Now I'm done here and I'm gonna go head to me bed and snuggle under my warm blanket and eat cake and ice cream!!!

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip!!

Phew what a day!! So proud of the lunches I made the kids today, plus they loved them!! DIY Pizzas, pineapple and peanut butter pretzel bars!! 

After our usual morning routine C and I loaded up in the van but instead of going to school we went on his file trip to the pumpkin patch!! We were suppose to go this Thursday bit it's suppose to be terrible weather so his teacher called yesterday morning to let us know they moved it today, which was fine because it was a beautiful day!!! We found the place with little trouble and then we spent the morning (till 11AM) looking at pumpkins, walking around seeing the signs of fall, listening to pumpkin stories, having a snack and playing games!! 

Once we got home we had lunch and then crashed in momma's bed!! I was so sleepy, I finished watching GI Joe and then I was out!!! Thank goodness C is a good little boy!!! I slept until it was time to get L and G off the bus and then I fiddle farted around until 5PM and then we went to Mickey's for dinner!! 

Home at 6PM and I got the dough ready to make my graham crackers.

 Then I folded my white clothes I washed to day and then just tried not to kill anyone!! Not because they were bad (because they weren't at all) but because for some reason I have a horrendous headache!!! Then it was baths and brush teeth and daddy got home right at 8PM to help put the rats to bed!!! Now I'm just finishing up baking my graham crackers and then I'm hitting the hay!! Another busy day tomorrow!!!

Happy hump day!!!

The morning was pretty much same old same old, except R was leaving for her field trip today to Lutherlyn and had to be at the Jr. High between 6:30Am and 6:45AM. Thankfully daddy took her!! Once we got everyone off to school daddy had to go to the doctors today for his check up! C and I just hung out all day, I think we ran out for a a few minutes but I can't remember what we needed to pick up!!! Crap - my memory is terrible!! Daddy called me later and let me know that he was fine and healthy and the doctor wasn't worried about him!! I didn't have to go pick S up from band practice so that we so nice!!  Oh now I remember, C and I had to run to the library to pick up a book that I had put on reserve - World War Z - I came home and started reading it and it was kind of lame!! Daddy got home late (as always) and I got everyone bathed and in bed at the usual time!!

Seriously behind!!

Eep...so it's been forever since I posted here, but it's because I've been out having fun with my kids and family!!! *lol*

On the 19th was Gman's field trip to the pumpkin farm!!! It was a beautiful day!! Cloudy and just a little cool, all you really needed was a long sleeved shirt!!! We got there early of course (even before his teachers *lol*) and hung out on the cement porch for a while waiting for everyone else to show up, looking at all the pumpkins and gourds.

Isn't that so cute!?!?!

C loves the little decorative pumpkins!!

Then once everyone was there we loaded up in the wagon and headed to the patch!!! It was fun and this year little C didn't freak out so it was a quite enjoyable ride!! Once we got there it was time to find the perfect pumpkins!!!

The G-man on the hay wagon!!

Little C on the hay wagon!

C perfect pumpkin!!!

The once we all had out pumpkins we loaded back on the wagon for the ride back!! Then it was on the the same lame corn maze they have every year!! We have been going there for 6 years and it hasn't changed once!! The little kids don't really realize it but I'm getting tired of it!!! *lol* I told the hubby we might have to find a new patch for next year!!

Brothers of the corn!!!

Then it was time to head to the barn to see the pitiful selection of animals!!! Seriously it was 2 small calves and 3 bunnies!!! Oh wait they had a turkey, 2 ducks and 3 hens outside!!! Again...thinking we are finding a new patch next year!!! *lol* The little boys did kind of enjoy it but it totally wasn't worth $2 bucks!!! Then after the barn they sat on a tractor and pretended to drive!!! I think that was the highlight of the trip!!!

Farmer G-man!!

Farmer C!!!

The it was time for snack time. A gross sugar cookie and a juice box...which I paid for one for me and didn't get it!!! *glares* It was just kind of chaotic...to many "mom's" were trying to help and not letting the teachers do their thing!!! Then it was time to play for a bit but the other kids were kind of being jerks on the tunnel slide so I steered my boys away and we headed for the little corn bin to play for a bit!!! Then it was time to head home and we hit the road!!! I think the boys enjoyed the day even though I didn't really!! But I did have fun with the boys...spending time with them!!! And really that is all that matters, so I guess it turned out to be a good day after all!!! Next year it will be just me and Little C....everyone else will be in school full time....it's gonna be kind of weird not having a tag along kid!!! *lol* Next installment.....our family trip to the (same) pumpkin patch!!! Laters!!