October 30, 2001

• Afternoon   I finally have a few minutes to do a "real" blog.  I have been doing laundry, chasing kids, and listening to my husband & brother BANG BANG BANG in the lean-to.

  
  

  We have a DOOR.    Our french doors are up in our bedroom now.  So now we just need a wall to go around it.  ROFL.  They are headed to my brothers to get a drill, and some insulation that he had leftover & then they will hopefully do the wall. 

  
  

  Then the house will be sealed back down & clean.  YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!  Then mommy starts pushing to move out there--MAN it would be nice to stand up in our bedroom again!! We have a attic bedroom (the little one)  And we can only stand up at the foot of our bed.  The rest of the room is occupied by bed, & dressers. LOL  We have to bend in order to get out of bed without hitting our heads. 

  
  

  I AM SO psyched  

  
  

  Kaylin has been sooooo much happier the last two days.  And she still hasn't cut that darn tooth.  I think its actually gone back down.  So round two to begin at any time. 

  
  

  Kaylin has now mastered opening tupperware containers.  And spread flour everywhere this morning.  Soooo something else to find a "new" place to be stored.  Gotta love toddlers.

  
  

  I don't think btw that my older two can open tupperware yet.  Kaylin may NOT talk much at all yet...but wow does she have good eye/hand coordination.

  
  

  Samuel & Zeria were sooooo good this morning.  They spent an hour helping (truely helping)  clean my bedroom.  And oy was it a MESS!  I had like 4 weeks of laundry to put away stacked on the floor.  And a BIG huge pile of dirty laundry on the flour.  Kids clothes to be sorted & stored etc, etc. 

  
  

  So the kids helped put everything up on the bed where I could store it...and carried many loads of junk downstairs.  And they had FUN doing it...  they thought it was a riot.  Even Kaylin carried stuff down. LOL.  1 book in each hand.  Or one dirty shirt etc.  She thought she was BIG stuff.

  
  

  I love it when I can find stuff for them to help with.  They get so excited to be a working member of the family. 

  
  

  We hashed out this morning how my extended family was gonna do Christmas.  With 8 brothers & sisters, My 3, my brothers 3, my sisters 1.  Christmas can be VERY spendy $$$$$$$$$.  So this year for the first year we are drawing names instead of buying for everybody.  Its sad to see it happen, but necessary too.   So I spent part of the morning drawing names & e-mailing everybody to tell them who they got. 

  
  

  I have energy.  Its so nice.  I haven't had energy since before Kaylin was born.  And I've actually found myself doing stuff again.  Trying NOT to overdue...but nevertheless it feels WONDERFUL.

  
  

  Thank you Lord for this gift!

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