Summer continues at it's lazy, but quick moving pace. It's crazy! On Monday we had Apple Camp, for twoK and oNe. Then, we went to visit a friend in "the city" and meet her new (now 2 month old) baby, to end the day, oNe and I went to our dance class.
Today, Apple Camp, again, a doctor's appointment for oNe. She has a nevus sebaceous and we wanted it looked at by a dermatologist. It all looks good so we wait. We can have it removed, or just wait and watch. oNe would rather wait and watch. I'd personally like it gone, but it's her head so we'll let her have some input.
Tomorrow, we have an eye exam for all the females in the family (check-up x 4!) and then a good teacher-friend (Ms. W) is coming over to play and learn on the computer. oNe and twoK are going to show her what they learned at camp. Super cool!
On Thursday, MWH and I are going to hang out, sans kids!!! Date afternoon! Woo!
For Friday, the plan is a trip to the beach, or somewhere fun.
Finally on Saturday, twoK and oNe show off their movie creations at Apple Camp (then gymnastics).
Someday, I'll do work again. Heh. For now, I'll be a bum. (I need to finish up a paper review and my syllabus.)
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Friday, July 20, 2012
Summer: Week 5
The lazy summer continues! oNe's arm is almost healed! It's been 4 weeks already! Whoa, that went too fast. (I'm so glad I'm doing these weekly blog posts... It'd all be a massive blur if I hadn't.)
Today, Three-a had a show at the dance camp she went to this week. Our original plan was to drop oNe off for a play date before twoK and I went to get Three-a. oNe was sad when I told her that as she wanted to see Three-a's show. How sweet is that? Needless to say, we re-arranged and oNe went to her play date after the show.
Earlier this week, I went down to [Big City] for 2 days and one night and met my new students for this year. Starting a new year is always so weird. OLU does orientation in a good way. It puts students who have just completed their first year in charge of the orientation for the new students. The students from the previous year "KNOW" what the new students need; the students who have completed the first year are patient, kind, and survivors. It's brilliant because the professors don't have to answer the same questions year after year. (You get tired of the same questions over and over again.)
twoK is at sewing camp and has really learned a lot in two weeks. Go see the other blog to see what all she's done! I'm so impressed.
Tomorrow we need to finalize our bathroom cabinets order for the new house. Then we wait 5-6 weeks for them. Given that, I'd guess we're about 2 months out from moving. I hope we can move in October. Of course, I'd originally hoped we could move RIGHT NOW, but we'll not dwell on that. I'm excited that installation on the new wood floor started this week!!! Woo!
After cabinets are ordered, I need to think about paint! I like thinking about paint much more than I like thinking about tile for bathrooms and cabinets. (Paint is EASY to change and pretty cheap if you get it wrong... tile not so much.) Then I have to think about new beds for the girls (we've almost picked them out) but I have to order them. Six years ago, we got this bed (read the post and click the link). It's been a super bed for 3 little girls, but they are growing up and we're going to get 3 loft beds with desks underneath them. A good friend is going to take the house bed. Super fun! I hope her kids enjoy it as much as the girls did.
Okay... time to go get twoK at camp.
p.s. driving to two different camps each day sucks.
Today, Three-a had a show at the dance camp she went to this week. Our original plan was to drop oNe off for a play date before twoK and I went to get Three-a. oNe was sad when I told her that as she wanted to see Three-a's show. How sweet is that? Needless to say, we re-arranged and oNe went to her play date after the show.
Earlier this week, I went down to [Big City] for 2 days and one night and met my new students for this year. Starting a new year is always so weird. OLU does orientation in a good way. It puts students who have just completed their first year in charge of the orientation for the new students. The students from the previous year "KNOW" what the new students need; the students who have completed the first year are patient, kind, and survivors. It's brilliant because the professors don't have to answer the same questions year after year. (You get tired of the same questions over and over again.)
twoK is at sewing camp and has really learned a lot in two weeks. Go see the other blog to see what all she's done! I'm so impressed.
Tomorrow we need to finalize our bathroom cabinets order for the new house. Then we wait 5-6 weeks for them. Given that, I'd guess we're about 2 months out from moving. I hope we can move in October. Of course, I'd originally hoped we could move RIGHT NOW, but we'll not dwell on that. I'm excited that installation on the new wood floor started this week!!! Woo!
After cabinets are ordered, I need to think about paint! I like thinking about paint much more than I like thinking about tile for bathrooms and cabinets. (Paint is EASY to change and pretty cheap if you get it wrong... tile not so much.) Then I have to think about new beds for the girls (we've almost picked them out) but I have to order them. Six years ago, we got this bed (read the post and click the link). It's been a super bed for 3 little girls, but they are growing up and we're going to get 3 loft beds with desks underneath them. A good friend is going to take the house bed. Super fun! I hope her kids enjoy it as much as the girls did.
Okay... time to go get twoK at camp.
p.s. driving to two different camps each day sucks.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Summer: Week 4
The word of the week was individual.
Last week, I didn't send everyone to the same camp. I've always picked camps where they could all attend (well, since Three-a was old enough). They all went to the same place partly because of logistics; it's hard to do multiple pick-ups and drop-offs at the same time. I also liked the safety in number of all of them being together somewhere (without me) to watch over each other. The final reason was they would cry "life is unfair" if someone got to do something that another didn't. Even if they didn't want to do it, they complained about not getting to do it.
We're reaching a new stage where some little girls don't want to do things and do want to do certain other things. This new stage is pretty cool--except for the logistics of drop-offs and pick-ups.
twoK went to sewing camp last week. She made some super cool things. If you want to see them, go to the other blog (uh, soon, they aren't up there yet). oNe and Three-a stayed home. This coming week, Three-a is going to dance camp and twoK is going back to sewing camp. oNe is staying home. oNe is more of a homebody than her sisters. She wants to not go to camp, she's taking an extra dance class each week and gosh darn it, because of those things, it's fair (that she's not going to camp). I'm documenting it here so that, in the future, if there are any questions, I have an answer.
What else did we do last week? I don't remember. We went to the library, had a couple of play dates, and I'm getting ready for my class this fall. We all had to get up early for twoK's camp and we were tired. I don't know what we'll do when we have to go to school in the fall. Mornings suck!* Oh! One day, a friend of oNe's came over. The girls built boats out of cardboard. I got a treadmill and they box was huge. They had a blast constructing a huge sailing fleet. (We also had some other large boxes laying around.) Super fun!
The days are lazy but they are going by fast.
*MWH and I are staying up too late at night watching Heroes. It's a super fun series that we missed when it was out in first run. Now it's great because we can watch multiple episodes in one night. (They always end with such a cliff-hanger... Last night, we watched until 1:15 am. Oops.)
Last week, I didn't send everyone to the same camp. I've always picked camps where they could all attend (well, since Three-a was old enough). They all went to the same place partly because of logistics; it's hard to do multiple pick-ups and drop-offs at the same time. I also liked the safety in number of all of them being together somewhere (without me) to watch over each other. The final reason was they would cry "life is unfair" if someone got to do something that another didn't. Even if they didn't want to do it, they complained about not getting to do it.
We're reaching a new stage where some little girls don't want to do things and do want to do certain other things. This new stage is pretty cool--except for the logistics of drop-offs and pick-ups.
twoK went to sewing camp last week. She made some super cool things. If you want to see them, go to the other blog (uh, soon, they aren't up there yet). oNe and Three-a stayed home. This coming week, Three-a is going to dance camp and twoK is going back to sewing camp. oNe is staying home. oNe is more of a homebody than her sisters. She wants to not go to camp, she's taking an extra dance class each week and gosh darn it, because of those things, it's fair (that she's not going to camp). I'm documenting it here so that, in the future, if there are any questions, I have an answer.
What else did we do last week? I don't remember. We went to the library, had a couple of play dates, and I'm getting ready for my class this fall. We all had to get up early for twoK's camp and we were tired. I don't know what we'll do when we have to go to school in the fall. Mornings suck!* Oh! One day, a friend of oNe's came over. The girls built boats out of cardboard. I got a treadmill and they box was huge. They had a blast constructing a huge sailing fleet. (We also had some other large boxes laying around.) Super fun!
The days are lazy but they are going by fast.
*MWH and I are staying up too late at night watching Heroes. It's a super fun series that we missed when it was out in first run. Now it's great because we can watch multiple episodes in one night. (They always end with such a cliff-hanger... Last night, we watched until 1:15 am. Oops.)
Monday, July 09, 2012
Week 3 of Summer
OMG it's past the 4th of July. The year is more than 1/2 over. Time is flying.
In week 3, we got ordered the tile for the new house! I'm thrilled. Thinking about tile was sucking up a lot of my time. Now we just have to order the stone for our fireplace (but first we have to figure out if we're replacing our old fireplace or what....).
Poor MWH does so much on the remodel, and all I do is blog about my small contributions. (He needs a blog.)
Bleh... not feeling like blogging right now... Week 3 was a nice week. The girls were helpful and the nanny was on vacation. I enjoyed hanging out with the girls a lot. Week 4 (today) is starting off very grumpy. We all had to get up early today and we've all been no fun at all, myself included. We took a hike this afternoon and I must say I don't recommend hiking with 3 tired girls. NOT PRETTY.
I can't wait to go to bed tonight. More later when I'm not so grumpy.
In week 3, we got ordered the tile for the new house! I'm thrilled. Thinking about tile was sucking up a lot of my time. Now we just have to order the stone for our fireplace (but first we have to figure out if we're replacing our old fireplace or what....).
Poor MWH does so much on the remodel, and all I do is blog about my small contributions. (He needs a blog.)
Bleh... not feeling like blogging right now... Week 3 was a nice week. The girls were helpful and the nanny was on vacation. I enjoyed hanging out with the girls a lot. Week 4 (today) is starting off very grumpy. We all had to get up early today and we've all been no fun at all, myself included. We took a hike this afternoon and I must say I don't recommend hiking with 3 tired girls. NOT PRETTY.
I can't wait to go to bed tonight. More later when I'm not so grumpy.
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Worth every penny (also money talks)
I am giving myself a genius parenting award.... (remember all is done in fun around here).
Yesterday, I needed some time to get some work done before we went somewhere and I needed to get the girls ready to go. I didn't have enough time to get both done and my "freeze time powers" weren't working. I reached in my bag of mommy tricks and offered each girl a dollar if they could get 1) their shoes on, 2) their hair brushed, 3) their water bottles filled, 4) their books to read, and 5) be in car before me. I gave them 10 minutes. They made it in like 7 minutes. We made it to our appointment on time and I got almost everything done that I needed to do! Woo! Go me.
I don't like to bribe them, but sometimes, it is necessary. We all get rewards for certain behaviors from our spouses, our friends, our employers, and whether we like it or not, this is part of life. I recommend using your bribes at strategic times so that they can be effective. If I did it all the time, I'd have to pay them for everything.
Yesterday, I needed some time to get some work done before we went somewhere and I needed to get the girls ready to go. I didn't have enough time to get both done and my "freeze time powers" weren't working. I reached in my bag of mommy tricks and offered each girl a dollar if they could get 1) their shoes on, 2) their hair brushed, 3) their water bottles filled, 4) their books to read, and 5) be in car before me. I gave them 10 minutes. They made it in like 7 minutes. We made it to our appointment on time and I got almost everything done that I needed to do! Woo! Go me.
I don't like to bribe them, but sometimes, it is necessary. We all get rewards for certain behaviors from our spouses, our friends, our employers, and whether we like it or not, this is part of life. I recommend using your bribes at strategic times so that they can be effective. If I did it all the time, I'd have to pay them for everything.
Monday, July 02, 2012
darn it...
The girls and I organized a set of shelves in the kitchen with their art supplies... I forgot to take the Before and After shots AGAIN. It looks somuchbetter!!!!
My girls are at such a good age... I can start the task of sorting and then leave them with the instructions on how to finish it, and then ask them to finish it and they will. YAY! Love it!!!
My girls are at such a good age... I can start the task of sorting and then leave them with the instructions on how to finish it, and then ask them to finish it and they will. YAY! Love it!!!
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