Thankful #3

We spent the afternoon/evening with my parents tonight. My cousin and grandmother are here also and being together as a group made me remember how thankful I am for my family. We have such a fabulous family! You never have to search far for a laugh when we're together. I just love it when we're all together and everything in the world feels right. So as I am smelling pies and baking sweets for tomorrow I look forward to spending the day with the people that I am most thankful for. What a blessed life I lead!

Thankful #2

Onto the second installment of my Thankful week.

Today I'm focusing on the little things in life. With the kids running around all the time and it constantly being loud in our house things easily get to me. My anxiety gets out of control very quickly and I can have panic attacks in a heartbeat. There are days I have to sit down and remember to be thankful for the small things and realize just how lucky we are to be healthy and have four happy children and really to just be together.

I'm thankful for smiles!

I'm thankful for laughter!

I'm thankful for a bed that's warm from the electric blanket when I get in it at night....I LOVE that one!

I'm thankful for pink because I thought I'd never ever in a blue moon get it!

And I'm even thankful for the two older boys that make our house the chaotic mess that it is!

Thankful #1

I thought since this week is Thanksgiving that I would do a week of posts about things that I am thankful for.

Today I'm thankful for kisses:  They are plentiful in our house!

I'll miss the day when all the little ones are gone...when it's so quiet I don't know what to do anymore. It's chaotic and loud around our house 24/7 but I'll miss them when they're not here all the time anymore. So for now I'll enjoy the little things and treasure the memories.

I'm so behind on reading blogs....at least a week on most of them. I'm trying to catch up this week....seems I've been exhausted lately on a daily basis and now I've had a migraine for the last two days. Of course the light from the computer screen isn't helping much right now either :)

Still my Baby!

He's my baby and he's on his way back home to me! He was supposed to spend the night at my parents house tonight with Lucas and Jacob. He's been excited for days!!!! Last night he slept with his suitcase beside his bed. When he woke up this morning the first thing he did was grab his suitcase and wheel it into our room while saying he was ready to go to Nendny and Papa's. All day long it's all I've heard...he's going to spend the night with Nendny and Papa and that suitcase has never been more than a foot away from his body. We went over tonight and as soon as we started to leave he was ready to go wtih us. He didn't want to stay so we put him in the car ready to go. As soon as pulled out of the driveway he changed his mind. Said he wanted to spend the night so we got him back out and left him there. I still remember seeing his tiny legs running as fast as they possibly could in the front yard waving goodbye to us. I was putting Allie down for the night when he called....Pulled my heartstrings when I heard what he told his Daddy. "I don't know how to get home." Oh my goodness!!!!! It goes without saying that David is on his way to get him :)

Wordless Wednesday

Lucas' New Digs

In order to get Allie in her own room we had to do some rearranging around our house. We originally had 4 bedrooms but were going to have to either combine all 3 boys or combine Allie with a boy which I didn't like at all. We finally figured out that we could add a wall in a new addition and make Lucas his own room. My mom graciously offered to do it for Lucas' birthday and he was very excited about it! After a week of living in constant mess and dust the wall was up and then all the other work began. We had to move Lucas in his new room and Caleb's stuff in with Jacob. Then we started on Allie's new room. Everything is still a work in progress and I'm beginning to wonder when it will all be done but the kids are all enjoying their new digs!!!!

This was an often occurance in the days before the sheetrock got up. They thought it was the coolest thing to play in the new room. Here's Caleb reading Bob the Builder to Allie.

Here's a look at Lucas' new suite :)

Wait...Do you see that....It's pink!

I can't believe it. It's here!!!! I have pink walls in my house. YIPPEE Allie finally has her own room and that room has the long awaited pink walls. It took me a while to pick the actual color that I wanted but I am so happy with the outcome. It isn't decorated yet but her bed is in there and it's a work in progress...now we just have to finish it. I find myself walking by and standing in awe that we actually have a pink room in our house. It's just amazing to me!

Last night I didn't sleep well at all...it was the first night since she was born that she didn't sleep in our room. Actually it was the first night in 35 months that we haven't had a child in our room...scary,huh? I went to bed last night and actually read with the light on....it was surreal! She slept until 5 before she woke up and came in our room...it was awfully comfy after she was in there with us again. It's going to take some getting used to with her being gone...next step is to get her to go to sleep on her own without being rocked and fed...that'll come with time.

For the time begin....WE HAVE A PINK ROOM!