- Friday proved to be entertaining. Friday I was with my Mom talking in the front room. The kids were being awful quiet so I went upstairs to find he two year old playing in the laundry detergent and the three year olds (yes that is plural) playing in the cereal they had dumped in the girls' room.
- This morning while at the bust stop (again) I found a trail of oatmeal in the den, up the stairs, own the hall, and into the bathroom where they were obviously trying to make oatmeal in the sink. Silly me for not locking up the oatmeal before walking out the door.
Background Slice
For those of you unfamiliar with my current circumstances, let me catch you up. Since graduating from college in 1996, I have moved from Provo to Olympia, WA and back home to Chesapeake, VA. I have lived here for the past eight years. Greg, my husband, and I are the joyful parents of five unique and wonderful children. After 11 1/2 years of being a stay-at-home Mom, I ventured out in to the work place pursuing a love of all things computer. I had been working for over a year when my life changed suddenly and drastically.
Greg and I are very spiritual people. We believe in a loving Heavenly Father who guides us in this life to those choices that are best. We also believe He inspires us as to His will for our lives. Such inspiration came the beginning of April of 2008. After much fasting and earnest prayer, we petitioned to intervene in the custody of my brother's four young children. I won't include here the details of why this was necessary. It is sufficient to say it was the Lord's will. The petition was granted on April 30, 2008 and we were given sole custody of these children. I am now the exhausted stay-at-home mother of nine until the court says otherwise. The journey can be read in the slices below.
Greg and I are very spiritual people. We believe in a loving Heavenly Father who guides us in this life to those choices that are best. We also believe He inspires us as to His will for our lives. Such inspiration came the beginning of April of 2008. After much fasting and earnest prayer, we petitioned to intervene in the custody of my brother's four young children. I won't include here the details of why this was necessary. It is sufficient to say it was the Lord's will. The petition was granted on April 30, 2008 and we were given sole custody of these children. I am now the exhausted stay-at-home mother of nine until the court says otherwise. The journey can be read in the slices below.
1.09.2009
More Stuff I wish were made up
This is a sampling since last writing:
Can't make this stuff up
In an effort to find the humor in my current existence I am going to take to annotating the things in my life that would make me laugh if I wasn't in my life. (Ok, so they should make me laugh even now.)Check in occasionally for a good laugh.
- Recently my facebook status read, "Annie can't be in two places at once." I had gone upstairs to change a stinky diaper, only to come downstairs to another little one feeding the fish (half of the container of fish food). I head back upstairs to move the laundry and find another little one (different from the first two) stuffing wet wipes down the drain of the bathroom sink so he could fill the sink (and flood the bathroom). You see, we had already removed the drain plug because after he flooded the bathroom three times in one day we decided we didn't want the upstairs falling through to the downstairs.
- Just today I went to the playroom after filling the dishwasher and found a humongous spider web of twine. I went downstairs to get the scissors to clean it up and found they had beaten me to the scissors and had basically finished the cleanup job. And they cut it all up without cutting each others hair (which they have been known to do on occasion).
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