Back to Life, Back to Reality

Ok, it's time to get caught up on normal life.  Adam did well doing the solo parenting thing for an entire week, but has decided that he doesn't want the life of a single Dad.  While I was soaking up the sun Adam was dealing with a few things that weren't so fun.  First of all a TV entertainment center fell on Korinne (she wasn't hurt, but it sure scared everyone) and then he was rear ended in our van by some lady while trying to take Jenna to gymnastics.  The lady's insurance is paying for the back of our car to be fixed so we are sporting a rental car this week which has been very exciting for the kids.  For some reason going on errands in a car that isn't your own is super duper exciting.  I wish they were always that excited to go to the store or the post office.

My kids got a wild hair this last weekend and decided to make a fort in the family room.  This is code for--bring every pillow and blanket in the entire house and make a HUGE mess.  Personally I don't do well with complete chaos in my main living space (we have a designated playroom for a reason) but because I was still in my laid back Hawaiian state of mind I decided to let them have fun for a day or two.

Ok, so I only twitched involuntarily a few times and told myself twice to breath in and out to remain calm.  I let them keep it for 60 hours, a record to be sure.  Believe me, if I hadn't of just spent a week in Hawaii it would have been cleaned up after 2 hours.  Korinne and Jenna were running around in their swimming suits and making name tags for themselves.

The tag says, "Hi, my name is Korinne and I work here."

I'm not exactly sure what they were doing, but they had a great time doing it.

Last Saturday night I went checked on the kids before I went to bed and found Jenna still reading.

Or so I thought.  She had really fallen asleep with the light on and the book to her face.

In other news my presidency was reorganized this last Sunday.  I'm still the Primary President, but now my 2nd counselor is my 1st and I have a new 2nd counselor and secretary.  Just to keep things exciting my 1st counselor had a baby the next day, my new secretary had surgery last Thursday and I'm getting ready to go to China in 2 weeks.  I guess I just like to keep things interesting.

Speaking of babies, my little Korinne is feeling a little left out. 4 out of her 5 preschool classmates have had a baby born in their family during the school year.  She keeps saying, "Mom, I want a baby to be in your stomach, too" or "I really want a baby brother or sister."  Poor girl.  Someone's got to be the youngest in each family and she gets to be our youngest. It's a tough job. I told her she can share Cara's little sister (born on Monday) and every time she wanted to see the baby she could go and visit for a minute.  She seemed pretty happy with that. Crisis averted.