Finding time

Good morning!  First up, lets talk about Lulu.  This four month fur ball slept through the night last night!  Give all the praise hands.  I slept so good.  It was long over due to sleep more than a couple of hours.

We did school over the weekend.  It was fun on the weekend.  With having so many appointments during the week, it's hard finding time to get everything else we need to do in a day.  So doing school on the weekends just seems like the answer right now.  And, we don't do much on the weekend, so it helps keeps us from being bored.  Cleaning gets thrown in at night most times.  So, we're making things work with the time we have.

Last week we started our crazy week of appointments.  Yesterday we continued with a 730 departure for Sterling and I having to get our blood drawn.  Sterling had to fast so I wanted to get her there earlier enough so she wouldn't be starving.  I didn't tell Sterling exactly what would happen, but was telling her things "just in case."  Kind of to warm her up.  I was telling her a story of a time when I had to get my blood drawn and my vein collapsed and the technician moved the needle around to find it again.  Telling her it hurts just a little, but if she can be very still they won't have to poke her more than once.    Well, Sterling did amazing!  When it was my turn, my vessel collapsed and sure enough, she was moving the needle around.  I hate that part!  Then she decided to pull the needle out and start over.  Then, after she was done, my blood kept flowing.  

We headed to Target so brave girl could pick out something.  We then had to head back home, grabbed my paperwork for another appointment, drop the kids off at a play place, and then I headed to my appointment.  We ended up being in the car for four hours yesterday just getting to and from appointments.  When we got back home at 4, I crashed.  

Sterling has been a big help in the kitchen lately and I'm loving it

During clay class, we made toothbrush holders.  The instructor told us they'd be easy, but we all felt they were hard.  Those darn whiskers.  Sterling's cat looks like it just woke up from a nap with the crazy whiskers and Xander's is missing one.  Although they were frustrating to make, we still had a good time working together.

Swimming went great again

We had fun playing tennis.  But it's not as fun without Nick.

Xander is my "I hate reading, it's so boring" kid.  Before one of my appointments yesterday, I headed to Barnes and Noble and picked up a Dog Man book for Xander.  He was hooked and read the 243 pages in less than four hours!

I received my van title in the mail yesterday, woohoo!!  So excited to have it paid off early and not have the payment anymore.

Two more appointments this week, one next week and then I think we'll be done for a bit.  Let's hope!

Have a great day!