Packing mayem

Why bother having one of us identify boxes at the truck and give locations to one crew member only to have them dump the box by the door for someone else to move without passing on the box destination. Hence box ending up in the wrong place!! Kids clothes in our room, bedroom stuff in the kitchen. Argh. I really hate moving. The towers of boxes are getting to me! That said I am enjoying surfing Pintrest for home remodeling ideas.

Panic on the horizon

I just want to run around like a chicken with my head cut off screaming. We move in two weeks!! That doesn't seem real. I probably wouldn't worry so much except after the 31st we are homeless. I truly hope we can find a nice place that likes pets to temporarily stay in while we wait for a home.

That set at aside- my kids are pretty great about this while thing!!

Sydney just got baptized this past Saturday, Emily got a medal at her first Tae kwon do tournament and Josh is being spiderman when he isn't getting too worn out with his week of camp.

2 player tennis

Josh really prefers to have a partner for tennis, but when the girls are at camp or busy and I can't sit and play with him, he came up with a new approach- two player tennis!
He wiggles both remotes wildly and hits for both sides- best part- he always wins!

Pool Noodle Fun

I saw a Pintrest posting for nifty uses for pool noodles. I decided to reinvent my old noodles into swords. I'm relatively certain no one will be hurt by them, they have no pointy ends and they were essentially free! It does require duct tape and pool noodles!

Basically cover the end with two small pieces and wrap tape round the base. I made a handle out of cardstock more duct tape to make it easier to go in their hands.

It's the first time I've needed to declare swords off the table at dinner! I'm anticipating a mighty fight after dinner!

Playing with your food

We'd like to demonstrate this stellar example of playing with your food.

This is a carefully sculpted dog bone made from a baby carrot. Way to go Sydney. She ate it after she finished.

Can't believe it worked

Emily came to out door, knocked and called "Mom, you in there?"

"nope", I replied.

She responded with "ok" and left! Hehehe

Blond Jokes

We were talking at dinner tonight about hair color and how Karl and I had blond hair as kids but brown hair now. Karl said "I still think of myself as a blond."
(Hehe! There is a lot you can do with that.) So I replied, "Did you hear the one about the blond who sold their car for gas money?"

Karl laughed! Emily instantly wanted to know why. Sydney also laughed and explained the joke to her.