What I Should be Doing

• More laundry
• Helping the girls clean their rooms
• Cleaning the upstairs bathroom
• Scooping dog doo
• Weeding my flower garden
• Deciding what's for dinner
• Replacing the girls winter clothes with their spring/summer ones

Procrastination is a nasty habit!

Guess Who?

Guess who has an earache tonight? I'll give you a hint, it's not her first. In fact this particular child has been on 3 different antibiotics in the last 7 weeks. If you guessed Tea give yourself a pat on the back you've obviously been paying attention.

She casually mentioned that her right ear was bothering her late this afternoon. She didn't seem to be in a lot of pain so I crossed my fingers it was just a little plugged or something minor. Tonight she is officially complaining. I put the standard two drops in and gave her some pain medication so hopefully she'll get some rest. First thing tomorrow I'll call the doc and see about getting her in. I'm hoping this is just a string of bad luck and not a sign of a more serious ear/s problem. *Sigh*

Buddies

Further

The mortar is down in the dining room and both family room entryways and has been since Friday. Too bad it took a whole 24 hours to dry. This made the family room, laundry area, and new bathroom off limits for a day. The good news is the tile can be set on Monday and grouted on Tuesday. Then maybe we'll take a little break...

Where a Kid....

Today the kids had their church youth group party at Chuck E. Cheese. Aside from the weather being crummy (snowy) and having a bit of a drive, it went really well. I think the pictures speak for themselves...

Ticked Off

Somebody did not like her pigtails!

April

Even when the weather is cold and snowy once April comes in Colorado you have officially arrived. Spring is here and summer will be soon to follow. That makes today a day for celebrating. The temperatures aren't spring like, but the skies are clear so we'll take it.

I wish we had been able to start our house projects earlier so we could move on to the things we want to do outside but it just didn't work that way. The dining room should be finished by the beginning of next week at the latest and then we have to make some decisions about what we want to do in the family room. We're deciding between hardwood flooring and carpet. I'm all for carpet in the family room it seems so much more casual. At the same time we have 4 kids and a dog so.....

When we bought this house I must say I was rather naive. I knew there were things that I wanted to change I guess I just never realized how many things and how expensive it would be. My dream would be to have a custom home built. Not a fancy pricey one, just one that we helped design. By the time we're done here it probably will be the equivalent of building a new house...