Well, we made it home safely... all kids accounted for and doing well! We got home around lunch on Friday and spent the day unloading, putting things away, and adjusting to having daddy back in our space!
Jerry filled the pool up with half cold, half hot water so the kids could go out and play in it. They had such a blast! Even after naps, they all went down that night without one word of protest. It was GREAT! I am not to sure who had more fun though, daddy? or the kids? Did I mention that he got in the pool with them?! Ha! That was why he put the hot water in it!! Silly daddy...
Today we had an AWESOME picnic with some neighbors and some new nieghbors! Anna made a little friend, which is really great. Since her friend Alena moved away she has been pretty sad about not having someone to play with. Our neighbors next door moved down a block and a half from us... so we are once again going to get new neighbors next door. I am praying they will have children our age and similiar to us. (Not that our other neighbors weren't, we got babysitters and friends through them!)
I am hoping that the baby will come in the next couple of weeks! He is so crammed in his space that he makes my back ache almost all the time now. I have had a couple of contractions, but that is probably just the Braxton Hicks that are fake and don't do anything!! We'll find out on Monday though. And then the doctor visits are every week! I find it hard to believe that he will wait until Sept. 7th, but you never know!
Tomorrow is church and our small group! And then our week kicks off our soccer season! Hooray... if they did not enjoy it so much, they would not be in it!! I am too pregnant and too tired for this! Thank goodness Jerry is home to help!
Hope all is well your way!
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
Back Home in Indiana
So the kids and I had a conversation on Friday morning as to why I still call going to Gma and Gpa Dragon's/Ottinger's "going home". Jay and Anna were really confused as to why I would call their houses home and not so much ours. That is tough one to explain! So I tried to explain that our parents' homes will always be our home (meaning Jerry and I). Especially Jerry's parents because he was raised in that house. When it all came down to it, they asked that I not call going to Indiana "going home" and that I save that reference for when we go to our house. We'll see how that goes... I will probably forget and still call it "going home". Home to me is where family is. It is hard to call my house home, when I know we will move in the next year or so. But for my kids' sake, I am working on it!
Jerry and I attended a wedding/reception for one of my roommates in college on Saturday evening. And I have to say, it was a lot of fun to get away without the kids and have 4 hours of uninterrupted conversation with my husband on the drive there and back! Not to mention that we had a blast catching up with my roommates and their significant others. Had I not been 35+ weeks I think I would have lasted a little longer!
The kids stayed with my parents and went to church with them on Sunday morning. They were well-behaved and didn't give gma and gpa too much grief overall! Then we all went over to Jerry's parents' house for a FABULOUS fish fry! We got to see family that we had not seen for awhile (especially Jerry!). It was wonderful watching the kids play with cousins outside and eat watermelon and just visit with family. Sydney did try to pee standing up in gma's bathroom and that did not turn out to well, but other than that she did stay dry all day! Hooray! Hopefully the end is in sight with potty-training... Lord knows, I am still not pushing it!
Jerry and his dad are fishing the next couple of days, Wednesday we are taking the kids to the Children's Museum, Thursday is our anniversary - 9 years!!, and Friday we are hoping to catch up with his sisters before we head home. Then we have a full weekend at home and into the first of the week... That should prove interesting!
Well, it is time to start getting motivated to do something today! I got my first update done and will probably have more throughout the week! We hope you all are doing well!
Jerry and I attended a wedding/reception for one of my roommates in college on Saturday evening. And I have to say, it was a lot of fun to get away without the kids and have 4 hours of uninterrupted conversation with my husband on the drive there and back! Not to mention that we had a blast catching up with my roommates and their significant others. Had I not been 35+ weeks I think I would have lasted a little longer!
The kids stayed with my parents and went to church with them on Sunday morning. They were well-behaved and didn't give gma and gpa too much grief overall! Then we all went over to Jerry's parents' house for a FABULOUS fish fry! We got to see family that we had not seen for awhile (especially Jerry!). It was wonderful watching the kids play with cousins outside and eat watermelon and just visit with family. Sydney did try to pee standing up in gma's bathroom and that did not turn out to well, but other than that she did stay dry all day! Hooray! Hopefully the end is in sight with potty-training... Lord knows, I am still not pushing it!
Jerry and his dad are fishing the next couple of days, Wednesday we are taking the kids to the Children's Museum, Thursday is our anniversary - 9 years!!, and Friday we are hoping to catch up with his sisters before we head home. Then we have a full weekend at home and into the first of the week... That should prove interesting!
Well, it is time to start getting motivated to do something today! I got my first update done and will probably have more throughout the week! We hope you all are doing well!
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