well, its been a regular whirl-wind around our home lately. first, we've made some alterations to the living room paint and now it looks fabulous!! ed has done such a great job and has really worked hard and it has paid off!!! we love the room and are anxious to get the dining room painted now that the living room looks so good. you know, fixing up a really old house was on my "list of things to do before i die" so i'm trying to remind myself of that when i get frustrated with the never-ending projects. of course, i should mention that i don't actually do much of the fixing up anyway. ed does most of the labor while i watch. truthfully, its probably better that way.
in the past several weeks, the boys have had A LOT of time off from school. first they had every other monday off in january, then they got 3 or 4 snow days + a few delays because of weather. this is crazy! i distinctly remember gateway NEVER having days off for weather!! sure, it happens now with my kids... so i have to get creative with my work schedule or strategically arranging play time at friends' homes! oh well. the boys are loving it (and getting so used to it that when they had to go to school at the normal time last friday, they were totally out of whack.) surprise. surprise. they have tomorrow off too... wouldn't want to spend president's day learning about the presidents or anything! sadly for them, mondays are "no electronics" days at our home so they will have a long day of homework, games & puzzles & playing outside and no tv, computer or video games. oh, and the day will be broken up by a visit to the dentist for all 4. good times. :)
this weekend was crazy busy (when aren't we crazy busy?!) with sleepovers for ed and noah (that's right - ed. he had an overnight with a new bible study group of guys), so i took the other three to a movie. drew & i stayed up late watching a movie at home and around 12:40 am, the phone started ringing. having been a teenage girl myself once, i was certain the calls were for drew. (anyone remember the call to 3ws "for mike & mike from buffy & jenny"?!?!) sure enough, by the 15th hang up i answered the phone and heard "um, is drew there?" i was so frustrated by the constant phone calls (hang ups after giggles) but i didn't want to do anything to embarrass drew. so, i said "if i let you talk to him, will you please stop calling?" she replied yes & he took the phone. i listened as he replied with a monotonous "no" to a number of questions and then he hung up. turns out he was being questioned about his opinion of each girls' "hotness". ahhh, to be 13. (by the way, this is a good time to publicly thank my parents for their "no calling boys" rule. i think fear of getting caught "chasing a boy" probably spared me much humiliation!!)
after the late night calls, taylor had me up by 8:30... on a saturday morning. ugh! so, i made cinnamon & orange rolls and we did breakfast in bed - again with a movie. :) ev joined us and we had a lovely morning. finally, everyone arrived home & drew woke up and we tackled a cleaning day (1/2 hour of cleaning followed by 1/2 hour of breaks for the boys to play until the house was clean - not a bad arrangement!) before our big fondue night. our "fondue friday" had to move back a day because of the overnights. we did our regular chicken & steak fondue with cheese fondue with break & broccoli. this is a definite favorite meal in our home!!
today was just as full - drew babysat at church last night and taylor took his turn this morning (both in the preschool room), we got to witness the baptism of our good friends' baby (mark & crystal's baby, ava) then rushed noah to a birthday party before stopping in at ava's baptism party. we ducked out of that party to head over to the hodils' home for the annual daytona 500 party. the abbotts are not really nascar fans, but bryan hodil makes the race fun with contests for "the big prize" (won by noah two years ago!), so we get into the race because of the contest. it was totally fun, as usual!! unfortunately, the abbotts didn't win this year but the winner (dave, the "fun, big kid" according to the boys) graciously shared his winnings with some very excited boys. finally, we left that party and headed back to church for the worship concert being put on by our friends on the music team (ed wasn't drumming for this one). the boys were not quite as into this part of the day, but ed & i loved it. it was an incredible concert and we were glad to experience it. now, we're home and relieved about the no school day tomorrow (although i'm a little anxious to get to the office in the morning... i could use a break!).
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