So, Dennis gets back today from Europe. This past week has gone pretty smoothly. Tuesday night was another game for Evan. Grandma (Dennis' Mom) was able to help out by going to Evan's game so I could leave and pick up Colin from soccer practice towards the end. I was also in charge of snacks so I wanted someone there in case the game ended early. They won a hard game that was tied up at the end so that is always fun too.
Wednesday I took Logan and Leah to a free magic show in the morning and then we went to Logan's school for muffins with Mom. It is always fun to go to the kids classrooms and see them in their element. Logan's teachers and his school in general are one of my favorite things about Ashburn. We really lucked out finding such a fantastic preschool and I am happy we decided to keep him there for Kindergarten Enrichment next year (Kinder is only 1/2 day here so after morning Kinder, he will get picked up and brought to his preschool for lunch/recess and additional learning until I pick him up at 2:30). Anyway, I got to watch his class sing a couple songs (Logan was pretty shy doing this) and then we did a few crafts together and had a small snack.
Friday, we had muffins with Mom at the big boys school. I thought I was going to have to miss it because Dennis was out of town and couldn't stay home with the little ones, but I emailed the person in charge just to ask if siblings can come and she said sure, so I went ahead and went with all 4. We had a quick muffin together before the boys had to start their school day.
Then that evening they wanted to go to Parents Night Out.
Monday, May 18, 2015
Monday, May 11, 2015
Mother's Day 2015
Dennis and his Dad left for Europe on Friday. His Dad took him on an all expenses paid trip to England, Paris and Nice/Monocco for 10-11 days or so. In the meantime, I am holding down the fort here in VA.
Saturday, was a busy day. All 3 boys ended up having team pictures this weekend. So, we left the house at 7:45 am and got home at 4:30pm. We had each of their pictures, Colin's game and Evan's game. My Dad came to Evan's game so that I could leave early to get Logan to his pictures. Then I treated him to lunch out at Red Robin. Other than that I was on my own with all the kiddos. It went fairly smoothly considering how long we were out and Leah not getting any rest time. Both boys won their games and were excited about that. Luckily, Logan didn't have a game this Saturday! That night we ordered pizza and had a movie night, before all kids were in bed fairly early.
Sunday, Mother's Day, I was awoken to the boys bringing me their homemade gifts from school and the Colin told me that he had been up off and on since 2am not feeling well. Sure enough he had a fever. So, I had to cancel our plans to go to Carol's house for crabs and stay home with Colin. My Mom called and offered to take the healthy kids so I took her up on taking Evan and Logan. I left Leah with me because I didn't want her to be babysitting on Mother's day and I figured the boys were easy and would entertain themselves with their cousins.
Actually, my brother in law, Phil, also offered to come over and watch Colin because he felt bad that I was stuck at home on Mother's Day, but I didn't think that was fair to Julie to take her husband away from her on her special day too. I am so blessed to have such an awesome family though!
Anyway, it was good I didn't take Phil up on that because Colin's fever went up and he threw up a couple times. He then took a 3-4 hour nap. Leah and I just hung out and overall, it was a quiet Mother's Day.
My kids are hardly ever sick. They all have perfect school attendance and have never had a sick visit to the pediatrician here in VA, so I couldn't believe that out of all the days of the year he was sick for Mother's Day. But, that is life with kids.
Anyway, I enjoyed all my gifts and even enjoyed the fairly quiet day as well.
Saturday, was a busy day. All 3 boys ended up having team pictures this weekend. So, we left the house at 7:45 am and got home at 4:30pm. We had each of their pictures, Colin's game and Evan's game. My Dad came to Evan's game so that I could leave early to get Logan to his pictures. Then I treated him to lunch out at Red Robin. Other than that I was on my own with all the kiddos. It went fairly smoothly considering how long we were out and Leah not getting any rest time. Both boys won their games and were excited about that. Luckily, Logan didn't have a game this Saturday! That night we ordered pizza and had a movie night, before all kids were in bed fairly early.
Sunday, Mother's Day, I was awoken to the boys bringing me their homemade gifts from school and the Colin told me that he had been up off and on since 2am not feeling well. Sure enough he had a fever. So, I had to cancel our plans to go to Carol's house for crabs and stay home with Colin. My Mom called and offered to take the healthy kids so I took her up on taking Evan and Logan. I left Leah with me because I didn't want her to be babysitting on Mother's day and I figured the boys were easy and would entertain themselves with their cousins.
Actually, my brother in law, Phil, also offered to come over and watch Colin because he felt bad that I was stuck at home on Mother's Day, but I didn't think that was fair to Julie to take her husband away from her on her special day too. I am so blessed to have such an awesome family though!
Anyway, it was good I didn't take Phil up on that because Colin's fever went up and he threw up a couple times. He then took a 3-4 hour nap. Leah and I just hung out and overall, it was a quiet Mother's Day.
My kids are hardly ever sick. They all have perfect school attendance and have never had a sick visit to the pediatrician here in VA, so I couldn't believe that out of all the days of the year he was sick for Mother's Day. But, that is life with kids.
Anyway, I enjoyed all my gifts and even enjoyed the fairly quiet day as well.
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