Quiet Moments

All too rare is a quiet moment in the day. Today is unusual, as E-bunny is still napping at 3:15 and Miss A, too, has fallen asleep. Miss A's been crankier more than usual the past couple of days and has managed to fall asleep both yesterday and today. Maybe having to get up when IC does in order to get him to school on time is wearing her out. Miss A is definately a night owl like Daddy. She can sleep in forever in the morning and not go to sleep until later at night. Having to change her sleep schedule for school has been a little rough on her. I have managed to keep really busy the past several days. We did some cleaning out of the garage Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon and it looks so much better, with there even being room to store everyone's bikes. The kids did get to bed a 1/2 hour late on Saturday evening and about 15 minutes late on Sunday evening, so that wasn't ideal. Sunday, after cleaning the garage some more and chores, we went to my parent's house for supper and cake and icecream for my birthday-which is today, by the way.

Yesterday was a crazy day as I went to town to take IC to school, take a walk with the girls in the stroller, and run errands. I had enough time to sort the outgrown clothes that I went through recently and get started on preparing them for the cosignment sale in the big city that is Oct. 1-3. In the afternoon, I took Miss A to the dr. for a recurring infection. My mom came in the afternoon so I could take Miss A to the dr and mow the weeds that have grown in the yard. Not the grass, by the way, because we don't water and so the grass, except for that under the swing set, isn't growing much due to a severe lack of rain this year. After a cleanup and supper for IC and E-bunny, who came in before I left, I headed to town AGAIN for a meeting about the dance classes. After I got there, I found out I needed Miss A, who is going to take dance this year. So, back home I went to get her, who had just gotten cleaned up, and then you guessed it, back to town. Dance is going to be more expensive than I realized, but Miss A wants to do it. She finally is old enough to do something herself and has been excited for awhile. Actually, she's ESTATIC to get to go to dance. She is a bit of a drama queen, by the way, so I think she'll do well. We are going to go ahead and do it-it's important to her and I think she needs something of her own to do. Anyway, she had to go to get fitted for shoes and measured for her recital outfit, which is a cute purple tutu. I didn't know she'd get fitted that night, or I would have been sure to take her to begin with. I've had to learn quickly the ins and outs of things in the past week-Kindergarten rules, soccer equipment, and now, dance fees. It's definately been interesting. After that, we headed home and I squeaked out a quick supper for her, inbetween pushing IC to get ready for bed and carrying E-bunny every other minute.

Today, after IC comes home, it will be time for chores, supper and then off to soccer practice. I am so thankful we only live 5 minutes from town-I haven't run to town this much ever!

I have a very dirty house, clothes in a pile to get ready for the sale and clean laundry to fold from washing yesterday that I still haven't gotten folded yet. There's flowers to water, so the heat and humidity doesn't do them in and scrapbooking projects I'd LIKE to work on. I did get about 7 scrap pages done for Miss A's book last week-I'm still not sure how I managed that, other than they were fairly simple! At least, her book is caught up to January 2007-which is pretty good right now!

I do have everyone's Halloween costumes all ready-which is exciting, but several small sewing projects to finish soon. There's just never enough hours or quiet moments in the day!