Wonderful weather!!

The weather has been great here again lately! The last 2 days we've had our a/c off! It's been great being able to have the window open and feel a breeze that isn't freon activated!!!

Early this week we took the kids to the dr. for their preschool physical. Wyatt is 41" and 48# (WOW!! No wonder it almost kills me to carry him upstairs!!), Abby is 37" and 36# and Blaine is 36" and 36#. Everyone is ok'd to go to preschool! YIPPEEEE!!! Our ped does have some concerns regarding Wyatt. Wyatt does show some autistic signs, but not enough to make us overly concerned. We're just going to see how he does the next 2 years in preschool and decide what if anything needs to be done then.

Not much else is really new, we've been spending a lot of time outside the last few days with the nice weather. I've been flying through books like the pages are on fire lately and I couldn't be happier! It's nice to finally get out of the book slump I've been in for the last several months.

Beautiful weather!

It's been 3 days of just wonderful weather here in NE!! Monday the kids & I went to the fair (county fair) in the afternoon and spent 2 1/2 hours checking out the animals. My kids LOVED the sheep, they watched them get bathed and shaved. Monday night we went back to the fair to go on some carnival rides. The carnival workers were total assholes! The first thing that really pissed me off was my kids were on a little train. The moron train operator stopped the train, and Blaine & Abby got up to get off and Abby was almost off the train and the moron started it back up! Abby sat down and looked at me in a total panic. I calmly told her to stay sitting, but she was completely freaked out!! Why in Gods name did he stop it then take off again?? The second thing that pissed me off was my kids wanted to ride these motorcycles, the thing was practically empty but instead of giving each of my kids their own motorcycle to ride she put Blaine behind Wyatt. Blaine had no handlebars or horn! Needless to say Blaine was PISSED and scream/cried the entire ride. And the last thing that nearly made me hit a carney rat was Wyatt has some sensory issues and is very scared of the unknown. All 3 kids wanted to go in the Scooby Doo Mystery House, just a little fun house, walk through some punching bags, go up a little hill, slide down a little hill into a ball pit, climb out of the ball pit on a rope ladder, go across a ricktey old bridge and then go down a tube slide. The guy kept yelling at Wyatt "go that way". First I should say the worker only knew 4 words of english, "tickets" and "go that way". He was practically yelling at Wyatt to move and I finally said "He's a bit scared, give him a second" and I held Wyatt's hand through the bars (I was on the outside) and walked him through the punching bags, after the punching bags he wasn't scared anymore because he could see what was coming ahead of him. Funny part of that story is while he was screaming at Wyatt to keep moving and practically poking him with a hot iron poker, Blaine had gone through the entire Mystery house and snuck back in and went through again undetected by the psycho worker (hehe). I wasn't about to pay another 4 tickets so I kept my mouth shut. Regardless of all that, the kids had a great time and cried their eyes out when we had to leave.

They wanted to go back to the carnival yesterday and today but I think $30.00 for 7 rides (they all rode 7 rides) is enough damn money! Especially when 1/2 of the rides they went on didn't require any mechanics (gas, electricity, etc).

Yesterday we just stayed home and rested from a full day at the fair the day before. I caught up on laundry and did some housecleaning. The kids played outside in the beautiful 70° weather!

Today we went to the park, then the library. Got a couple movies for the kids but no books for me. I have a big enough stack here that is due back in a couple weeks!!

I've been working out every other night (gotta do that tonight if I feel up to it). I know I should do it regardless of how I feel, but blah. Maybe I need the hot iron poker??

Jen

Summer heat!

Holy shit has it been hot here lately!! Kids & I were coming home yesterday from a little shopping outting and my car said it was 106° outside! And it felt like it!! The humidity was sooo high, it felt like I was trying to breath out of a plastic zip-lock bag. Today was better, but still very very hot and muggy. We've lived in Nebraska for 9 years and I can't remember it ever being like this!

Kids & I went to the swimming pool today and had a great time! Some people say Im brave, other people say Im crazy for taking all 3 of my kids to the pool by myself, but if I don't see anyone knocking on my door offering to help!! So if I don't take them by myself we wouldn't go at all. We've been there about 5x now and the kids for the most part know the rules. The hardest part is with Wyatt when it's rest time and we're in the big pool. He has a FIT when he's told he HAS to get out. Thank God the rest breaks are only 10 minutes long because Im usually holding him the entire time while he's squirming and crying in my arms trying to get away.

I've been taking the kids to the library a lot more lately too. They are really starting to understand the rules there too. "No running, no screaming, listen to mom and SHHHHH!!" It's funny to hear them repeating the rules over and over again while we are at the library, and even funnier to see one of them remind another one when someone is acting out.

Not much else is new. Im getting really excited about my upcoming trip to NYC with my triplet friends!! YEA! I can not wait!!!

Gotta get offline now and start working out again, can someone remind me how good I felt after working out?? The jeans I worked soooo hard to get into in May are beyond snug again. :( Im hoping to get back into them in 3 weeks before my vacation.

Jen

Been awhile again, quick "howdy"

WOW it's been awhile! I only have a couple minutes if that now.

Busy..that describes the last couple of weeks in 1 word. Troy's been on 2 business trips since I last posted, one to Ohio, and he left this morning for Minnesota. We were really hoping that we could make this last trip into another little family vacation up to MN to visit family, but financially we thought it would be better for the kids & I to stay home. But I wish I was there sooo much! I miss MN!

Kids have been soo busy. We got a letter in the mail on Friday regarding their preschool. Still don't have a starting date yet. GRR! I want to start marking off the days! For both their sake, AND MINE!! lol

We had a great 4th of July week. We shot off some fireworks here at home, kids loved it. Dh's employer doesn't run production that week so it was nice, Troy only had to go in to work for a couple hours a day then went out to the farm, so the kids got to ride in the tractor 3x that week. We all loved it!

The weather has been hot so we've been to the swimming pool in town 2x since I last wrote. Abby & Wyatt love the big pool, and Blaine loves the baby pool. Makes watching all 3 of them very interesting when I have 2 one way and 1 the other direction.

Well Wyatt is literally standing here screaming in my ear, and as of right now I have no clue where Blaine & Abby are, Im sure they are outside probably messing around with the water faucet..god I cringe just thinking of our water bill this month..

Until later....

Busy, Busy!!

Well Im not doing well at all about posting here.

Like usualy my life is sooo busy! I won't go into detail of what we've done the last several days. A rundown-kids & I went swimming at the local pool one day, took the kids on a tractor ride with daddy last sunday, played outside every single day in the 90°+ weather. Today we went to the water park in a town near here. We stayed for 3 hours and I got fried.

I have finished a couple books the last week or so. Finished "Aprons on a Clothesline" by Traci DePree (3rd book in her Lake Emily series). AWESOME book..I just love this series and I hope it doesn't end for a looong time!! I also finished "Truth & Beauty" by Ann Patchett (non-fiction). It was about the relationship between Ann Patchett & Lucy Grealy (author of "Autobiography of a Face" which I LOVED). Im starting "The Half Brother" by Lars Saabye Christensen. It's a big book so Im sure I'll be reading it for awhile.

Jen

Like the new picture?

Do you like the new picture I added to my blog? It's my kiddos!! I don't know why I didn't do that before, just spaced it off I guess. Now I'll just have to remember to change the picture every once inawhile!

Sadly even though it's been almost a week since I updated, there really isn't much to say today. Oh hum..boring life sometimes, not that Im complaining.

I am starting to feel overwhelmed again with the number of book groups Im in. A couple months ago I was in a real funk with reading. So I thought I'd join a few new groups, get to know some new people etc. Now Im in a whole crapload and sadly I think Im going to have to bow out of a couple. I think I have the ones Im going to leave narrowed down to 3. Im also going to go no email in 1 group for awhile (won't be joining in on the discussion in that group for the next couple of months). So that should help.

I picked up a whole slew of books from the library this week. Mostly for upcoming group reads, but a couple that I wanted to read personally. "The Half Brother" and the newest one by Traci DePree "Aprons on a clothesline". Im sooo looking forward to that one. It's the 3rd in a series.

Well..Im going to grab my CR book and hit the sack!

Back from vacation

We got back last night from our 1 week vacation. We had a wonderful time but I am sooo exhausted today! It's going to take at least a week to recoop. My kids were spoiled rotten and are really shits today about listening.

I finished "The Professor & The Madman" by Simon Winchester while we were driving (see my review on my bibliophil.org web page, link on the left side bar) and started "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert.

I have tons of laundry to do, tons of clothes to put away and some serious veggin' out to do on the couch. I am sooo pooped.

Okkkkk..

Whew..what a busy last several of hours.

Dishes done-check
Dishes put away-not yet but will do
Kitchen floor swept-check
Kitchen floor mopped-not yet but will do
Laundry done-check (last load folded just need to put away)
Vacuumed-not yet, will have to do tomorrow morning
Legs shaved-check
Everything packed and in car-check
bills paid-check
checkbook balanced-check
garbage out-last bag still in kitchen, will take out tomorrow am
kids outside toys in the garage-check
Emergency trip to the ER-check

Did ya catch that last one? Yep that's right, at 9pm tonight I ended up running to the ER with Blaine. Im not sure what happened, but I can only assume that he was running with a toy in his mouth and fell, putting a pretty big gash on the top of his mouth. Im NOT an over-reacting mother, so when Blaine came running into the bathroom (where I was because I was cleaning up the clothes, towels, toys, etc from bathtime) he had blood running (oops..I mean pouring) out if his mouth and nose. I quickly picked him up, grabbed the nearest towel and started wiping his mouth trying to find where the blood was coming from. At first I thought he had bitten his tounge off or something. I finally saw the gash and said, "ok that's where the blood from your mouth is coming from..now why is all this blood POURING out of your nose?" I called Troy (who was working) and told him he'd better come home early because Blaine was bleeding pretty badly. After explaining to him what happened he did run home (he's more over-react then I am to be completely honest). By the time he got home Blaine's mouth was done bleeding, but his nose was still bleeding pretty steadily. So off to the ER Blaine & I went. Turns out that when he fell he hit his nose pretty hard on the floor (or something) and just got a really bad bloody nose. I still have NO clue what he had in his mouth when he fell (I can only assume he fell). I checked high/low for anything that was bloody (matchbox cars, lincoln logs, anything) but couldn't find a thing.

{{Sigh}}..and that's why this site is called "Tripletmomslife".

Exhausted

A couple hours ago I was feeling "Excited" but now I am sooo exhausted! Getting ready for vacation is a full time job, especially when you have 3 kids to try to keep out of the way while you're packing!!

Right now I have the kids completely packed and Im ready to throw the 3 of them in the trunk with their luggage! Abby & Wyatt are fighting sooooooooooooo bad right now!! I had to take 2 minutes and sit down and write because if I don't I literally might pull my hair out!!

I don't think I'll get much sleep tonight beause I still have sooo much to do before we can go. My house is just a disaster (again trying to pack with 3 kids under foot is impossible). The kids have literally destroyed my house. I have dishes stacked, 1 load of laundry left to put away, floors to vacuum, floors to mop, get all the garbage out of the house, get everything in the front room so dh can start packing the car (he worked at the farm tonight), finish packing my clothes, get all the toys in the backyard put in the garage, drain the pool, pay all the bills, balance the check book and take money out of the savings account. I think that's it. I'll probably think of more at 3am when I finally lay down and try to go to sleep.

Post more tonight when the house is quiet and Im all done with my to-do list.

Odd day..

Today was a very odd day. In the am the kiddos & I went for a walk, them on their bikes, me following. On the way home there's an old guy (I'd say mid-late 70's) puttering around in his garden. He saw us coming and walked out to say Hi (nothing odd about that, he does it almost everytime he sees us, his name is Bob). He talked to the kids about their new bikes, they babbled to him about who knows what and then we said goodbye. About a block later I see Bob coming up behind us also on his bike. I said "Hi Bob..do you think it's going to rain today?" He said "It might.." and then he stopped his bike and stared (sp?) at the kids. To break the silence I started talking about the rain possibilty. He then handed me an envelope and said "here, please take this." Me (startled, and a bit alarmed) said "No Bob, I don't need anything from you." He said "Please, I love watching them walk by my house, buy them something." How could I say no to this sweet old man who obviously gets great joy from my kids simply riding by his house almost daily and I didn't want to hurt his feelings so I took it. When we got home I opened the envelope and inside of it was 3 20.00 dollar bills. The guy gave my kids $60.00!! Im still shocked and stunned.

Tonight Troy & I cut Wyatt's hair. Oh boy what a chore! Last time we took him to get his hair cut by a professional Wyatt was in a complete uproar (nothing out of the ordinary with him, he hates getting his hair cut but we've always been able to hold him down..I know that sounds harsh and yes it is as bad as you're picturing) so they refused to cut his hair, leaving Troy & I to do it. We have to wait until Wyatt is completely asleep, he won't even let us come near him with a scissors. I am covered in hair and itch like mad! A shower is definately on my list after I finish this post!! I hope Wyatt gets over this fear really soon, otherwise he is in for a lifetime of teasing because of Troy's chop-job.

Funny dream I had last night. I kept having a repeating dream of being chased by the devil. And the devil was Jack Nicholson, you know the actor! lol It was bizarre, "Jack" kept chasing me around my hometown trying to get me in his car and I kept telling him "go back to hell" and *poof* he'd be gone and then he'd be back, one time he came back with a plastic halloween mask on. Werid huh?? It gets werider. The last thing I remember I ended up in a church with a whole bunch of old woman praising and singing to God, then I woke up. I was standing in my kitchen doing dishes (right after I woke up..still in pj's) and started singing the song that was in my dream. I can't remember it now, but I wish I did. That dream has to mean something!! Any ideas??

I started this book yesterday and Im only on page 28. The book is putting me to sleep, literally. I sat down to read it today while the kids were watching some TV and fell asleep! I woke up to my friend Jane standing over me saying "Jen..are you asleep?" And my kids THANKFULLY glued to the TV. OMG..talk about a startle and being embarassed! I said "I guess so! Thank God you woke me up!!" Jane has an open door policy at our house, if our house is unlocked she comes right on in. Thank God she did today..lord knows how long I would of slept. I read 1 paragraph and was in la-la land. Im still hoping to be done by Friday night, so I can take a fresh book with me on vacation, but the chance of that happening are looking pretty slim.

Off to take a shower!!

Been a few days again

since I posted! I really want this site to work for me but I need to remember to write!!

Well we're leaving for vacation and I did it..I hit my jean goal. I am comfortably in my next size smaller jeans..ahhhh. I can bend over and even sit on the floor (and get up) without worrying about popping a button! lol I honestly don't know how I did it because I haven't been working out AT ALL in the last couple of weeks. I guess it's because I've been extremely busy with my kiddos!

Today my son Wyatt's therapist came and her & I took the kids for a bike ride. It wasn't really far (about 4 blocks) but running back/forth to each kid and keeping them on track Im sure doubled my block count, and raised my heart rate.

Monday I walked, and the kids rode their bikes around the park just north of our house. We stayed at the park for 2 hours, riding bikes, throwing rocks into the lake, playing at the 2 playgrounds and chasing the ducks. So that was a work-out also.

I just finished this book tonight. To see my review go to my bibliophil.org web page, link is on the left side bar.

Im starting this book tonight, read only 1 page so far but I think Im going to like it. I've heard quite a few mixed reviews about it, the most being that the book kinda bogs down (in most people's opinion) with endless info about the Oxford English Dictionary but does pick up later in the book. Im hoping to get this short (221 pg) book done by Friday so I can bring a fresh book with me when we leave on vacation early Saturday morning. Im still debating what book that will be..

Damn I got the hiccups tonight! Haven't had them in ages and my chest hurts from hiccuping all night!! GRR

Feeling good today!!

Im feeling happy today because tonight dh stayed home from work (he works nights & weekends for a local farmer). Him & I cleaned the house and now he's outside mowing the lawn. It feels wonderful to have a husband home every once inawhile!!

My dd is asleep already! I know that means it's going to be a looong night for me because she'll be up and ready to play at 1am. I hope not, but that's probably what is going to happen. The kiddos are pretty tuckered out because today we went for a walk to Pamida (local store) to buy their new swimming pool. We filled it and I told them the water was wayy to cold now and they'd have to wait until tomorrow to swim. HA! They tried it anyway and froze their privates off. They didn't stay in it for long.

Still reading "Boy's Life" by Robert R. McCammon. Im almost 1/2 way and starting to get a little confused with all the storylines going on. It's interesting and keeping my attention and Im really hoping that all the storylines come to a close by the end and hoping that McCammon doesn't sneak anymore storylines into the book without finally closing a few!!

Bye for now!

Quick howdy!

Oh what a boring Saturday so far!! It's days like today that I wish we lived anywhere but here. There is NADA to do in this town! Maybe we could go watch dog shit turn white? That was a lot of fun last time.

Seriously the kids & I need to do something today. Im about ready to jump off the back of the couch if we don't get out of this house!!! Today being Saturday Im PRAYING that daddy calls and he says I can bring him lunch and then he'll take the kids for a tractor ride!! That would be wonderful!!

Haven't worked out since last time I posted saying I actually worked out. But I've been watching what I eat and keeping really busy with the kids. Kids are wearing me out lately and Im going to bed pretty early.

Just started this book yesterday afternoon. The reviews at Amazon are very mixed so it should be interesting. This is my first book by McCammon.

Im going to go sit by the phone and wait for daddy to call!

Nasty weather!!

3 out of the last 5 days we have experienced tornado warnings in our little town in central Nebraska. It's been a scary and crazy several days!! My kids had their first experience seeing hail and are now know when the sirens go off and mommy yells "GET DOWN STAIRS" they know Im serious.

We had to stay inside all day because there was pretty much a constant threat of rain, so while the kids destroyed their playroom and the rest of our basement I finished "Kate Remembered" by A. Scott Berg. You can read my review if you'd like at my bibliophil.org web page (link is over there <------ somewhere).

I just started this book tonight and I think Im going to like it.

Well, we are once again in a tornado watch so I guess I'd better log off and watch the weather.

Toto..I don't think we're in Kansas anymore..

What Im reading..what I finished

I think I figured out how to put pictures in my posts, so now I can post a book cover jacket of what Im reading.

What Im CR:

Non-Fiction book about Kate Hepburn. It isn't a biography, more of a memorie. Pretty good, but Im anxious to finish it.

JF:

This will definately be a top book for me for this year! A non-fiction book about Lucy Grealy's challenge with jaw cancer and life in general. This was WONDERFUL!!!!!

Well it's been awhile!!

WOW..I didn't realize how much time has passed since I last posted.

Sadly there hasn't been a heck of a lot going on. Same ol', Same ol'. Our trip to Minnesota has been pushed back a week, so instead of leaving on the 21st, we'll be leaving on the 28th. Which I guess is a good thing because now I have an extra week to hit my jean size goal!! lol

I haven't worked out in about 4 days because I have AF. I know that shouldn't be an excuse, but all I feel like doing is being really lazy. I have cramps really bad today and Im HOPING that today is the last day of this bloody bitch. Now that Im posting again, Im determined to start working out again.

My boys had their 6 month evaulation by Early Childhood Development last week. Blaine still qualifies for services, but since he has improved so much his therapist is now on a consulation only basis. Wyatt still has some hurdles to overcome.

Last week we thought dh was going to loose his full-time job. Things were really scary for all of us last week when Monday his boss told him he was going to have a meeting with him on Friday. Dumb-ass gave us a whole week to freak out!! Troy's job is still literally in limbo, but I think things are going to be ok.

The weather has been fairly nice lately, last week it was pretty cold here with temps only in the 50-60°'s. On Saturday we were in a tornado warning in the afternoon with a tornado only 4 miles from our house. Thankfully it never touched down and left our area just as quickly as it came. The kids did think it was pretty neat to see the hail coming down (before the sirens went off..once they started going the kids & I high-tailed it to the basement).

Our neighbors oldest son got married this past weekend and we took care of their cat (at their house). WOW is there house nice!! Someday when my kids are long gone and out of our hair (and our pockets..lol) I hope our house can look that nice. Everything was just perfect and everything was in place.

Well that's about it..my last week update in a couple paragraphs.

Chow!

Back is muuuch better!

My back is a lot better today, just a little sore now so I guess Im going to live. Im planning on working out again tonight to celebrate (lol). I really went crazy today with eating food I shouldn't of eaten so I really need the workout.

Today was definately a loooow-key day. The kids were good as gold about letting mommy compltely veg-out and relax my back and I really think that has made all the difference. We did go for a little car ride tonight which the kids loved. Just driving around and listening to their music they are pretty content.

I woke up this morning to it SNOWING?! Wait..isn't it like 2 days from being MAY!! Nothing stuck to the ground thankfully. It was pretty to see those big huge flakes coming down and was a nice little suprise.

Not to much else to write about today, Troy came home from work..mowed the lawn then went out to the farm to work. Bea (one of our dumb dogs) ran away again today and the kids & I had to go find her (GRRRR!!) Anyone want a dog? I'll pay for shipping to send her to you. lol

I should be done with "Good Grief" by Lolly Winston tonight! YEA!! Im not sure what I'll be reading next but I'll be soooo happy to have this book behind me. Im still sitting on the fence about liking it or not. The main character is so inmature most of the time, and the stuff that happens in the book is extremely unbelieveable and far-fetched.

Ouchhhhh!!

Ouch is right! Today I was putting one of my ds's into the car and turned wrong!! My lower back instantly felt numb and it began to hurt BIG TIME!! I was all excited about working out again tonight but I think Im going to have to take the night off. I really am bummed about that and no this isn't a lame excuse. Any advice on my back? Heating pad, ice pack, electronic shocker (yea I got one of those and it's GREAT for strained muscles), ibuprofen and go to bed?

Well..Im going to take a few ibuprofen, get my moist heating pad out and read for awhile then hit the sack (I hope the heating pad is the right thing to do). I am REALLY upset about not working out tonight, it's 10:30pm..the kids & Troy are fast asleep and I could EASILY squeeze in a work-out, take a shower and be in bed reading by midnight..but my body tells me I need to rest my back and Im PISSED!

Today was a really pissy day all around. We have 2 dogs and both of them ran away today. The ONLY reason I was putting my kids in the car today and hurt my back was to go chase one of those damn dogs!! I use to love dogs, and sometimes still do but something really changed in me after we had kids. I have NO patience for dogs anymore, especially dogs that DO NOT listen...and our dogs don't. At least not to me.

Im over 1/2 way through "Good Grief" and I may end up liking this book. My previous post complaint may have been written in hast, it's all starting to come together now but I have a feeling I know where it's heading..we'll wait and see.

Oh yea one more thing...regarding the Care Bear arm stuck in our tub drain post from a few days ago. The arm is gone. It must of went down the drain and is now sitting in our drum trap. Hopefully it won't cause problems down the road.

Adios Amigos! :)

Last 2 days

Since I haven't posted in a couple days I thought I'd give ya a rundown.

Yesterday (actually Tuesday since it's 12:24 Thursday) kids & I went to the park and Abby met a little girlfriend. It was soo cute to see them playing together and made me even more anxious for my kids to start pre-school this fall. We made brownies on Tuesday and just played around the house. Can't remember anything else we did..so it mustn't of been important.

Today (Wednesday) kids & I ran errands in the afternoon. It constantly amazes me how well behaved my kids are getting. Taking them anywhere use to be such a pain, and a headache. Now the majority of the time they listen pretty well and don't necessarly run around like wild animals. We went to the post office and the dollar store. Each of them got a little toy, Wyatt got sunglasses, Blaine got a pinwheel and Abby got a stuffed bunny. I also picked them up some flash cards of numbers and pre-school words. They were only a buck each. :)

The last 2 days I've worked out both nights! Give me a "hell yea!!" I feel WONDERFUL!! I don't know why I waited this long to finally start getting back into shape. My first goal is to get in my next size smaller jeans (no I won't publically say what size that is..lol) by May 21st. We'll be leaving for vacation, heading up to MN to visit family/friends for 2 weeks. May 21st is also me & dh's 11 year wedding anniversary! :D

Im still reading "Good Grief" and honestly..it's HORRIBLE!! The writing is really bad and sooo choppy. I go from feeling really sorry for Sophie to making a disguested face by what Winston writes in the next paragraph. IMHO..Winston tried sooo hard to make a book with such a potentially good story line into comedy. And it just doesn't work..not for me anyway. Im almost 1/2 way through it so I will finish it, mostly in hopes that it all somehow ties together at the end.

Off to read a bit then hit the sack!

Typical crazy day

Today was a pretty normal day at our house. Kids were really good today and between the 3 of them they only had 1 accident on the floor. Please God let this be a sign that we are making some progress in potty training!!

Dh didn't farm tonight (YEA!!) so I was really hoping that I'd beable to get the grocery shopping done and run some errands ALONE. No such luck..he came home from work and said "Let's go grocery shopping." I said "All of us?" He said "Yea." Now..I'd rather have a root canal w/o pain meds then take my 3 kids grocery shopping, but I sucked it up and we went. I won't give you a play by play of our Wal-mart trip. I'll just say we did grocery shopping in record time and I only forgot a couple things..not bad!

Then we went to Burger King w/ a playland to feed the hungry monsters and let them play. There was a little boy there around the age of 10 playing also. He kept making this annoying high pitched noises in my son Wyatt's face. Wyatt has some sensory issues to loud, abrupt noises so he started to wail. I sat there wondering why the little boy's mother wasn't saying anything to her son. I then realized she was deaf and totally unaware of what was going on. I know some sign language but not enough to tell her "Your son is being completely inappropriate in there..please tell him to SHUT UP! He's scarying the hell out of my son." So I told the little boy to please stop making that noise, he was scarying the other kids". He stopped for a couple minutes then started up again. So we left.

It's now 11pm and Im waiting for dd to go to bed!! GRRR!! She fell asleep on the way to Walmart so had an hour nap! GRR!! I NEED to work out tonight. I didn't get to last night because I spent an hour trying to get a plastic Care Bear arm out of our tub drain, w/o any success. Thank God the tub is draining still, slower then ever but it is draining. Im hoping somehow by the grace of God that the arm eventually floats back to the entrance of the tub drain where I can grab it. Right now it's sitting way in the back of the drain.

I got a lot of "Good Greif" by Lolly Winston read on our way to/from Wal-mart (it's an hour trip 1 way). Im on page 90 something now and Im enjoying it. Hoping to read more of it tonight after I work out.

More tomorrow! :)