Life

I have been a CRANKY beast today.  Like so bad that I am ashamed with how I have acted.  This has lasted all day long and I think it wore off onto my kids.  When I woke up I thought it was because they were tired and cranky so I was cranky.  Wrong.  I realize now that they were cranky because I was cranky.  This is not a good start to my week.  This is what I call my long week at work.  I work Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  My only day off is Wednesday.  As much as I just want to have a nice relaxing day that day I think there will be other plans.  I was just on facebook and one of my co-workers said that both her babysitters had the flu.  My progression of thoughts went like this:  that really sucks for her, and then my next thought, you should help her out and say that you can babysit on Wednesday.  Wait, WHAT?!  What am I thinking?  I have a crazy busy schedule this week.  Wednesday is my only day off to decompress (especially with how much of a beast I am right now, that's really what I need....right?!)  As I'm having this internal debate my last thought was service is always hard, but it always makes me feel better and isn't that really what I need right now is to feel better.  SO....I'm babysitting a baby that is about 3 weeks younger than Kenzie.  Am I crazy?  I think so.  Hopefully it will be a fun day and I can handle it.  But this is the first time I have truly felt happy all day today.  Let the adventures begin. 

I love my kids so much and I'm so sorry that I acted horribly towards them.  I never realized that being a mommy means that you apologize, A LOT.  I always thought that it was the other way around.  Boy was I wrong. 

So on a happy note.  This past Saturday was one of the best days that we have had in a long time.  We decided it was going to be a family day.  We slept in a little (bless my husbands heart who took the kids in the morning so I could sleep, even though he is the one that was more deserving of a sleep-in), got ready (while I got ready Joe cleaned-have I mentioned HOW LUCKY I AM!), ran a couple errands, ate lunch at Zupas and then went to the zoo!  It was such a beautiful day that Joe and I even wore shorts.  Everyone else had the same idea to go to the zoo that I think it took us about 30 minutes to find a parking spot.  That did not deter us.  Owen loved the Elephants with the mommy, daddy and baby elephant.  He enjoyed the seals and the polar bear.  We decided to splurge and get tickets to the carousel.  Owen did not like that part.  When we were looking at the monkeys I realized that Kenzie had pooped, and not just pooped but exploded.  My children have that problem of not keeping their poop in their diapers when they are infants.  I'm sick of poop everywhere, but that is another story for another day.   Anyway, we did not have any extra clothes for her, but luckily it was down her legs and not up her back.  Thank goodness we had the idea to put her in my sweater jacket. I put her little legs in the sleeves, zipped it up and wrapped it around.  She looked a little silly in the baby bjoern with her legs kicking and the sleeves way beyond her feet but it kept her warm.  Success.  After we got home, we needed to go to the grocery store.  To keep it a family day we all went and I think that was most well behaved the kids have ever been at the store.  We went to Blockbuster and rented Wreck it Ralph. We made dinner, put a blanket on the floor, ate dinner and watched the movie.  This was such a wonderful day.  It was a day that truly made me realize how grateful I am for my sweet little family. 

Well, there you have it........the good, the bad and the really ugly!

Adrianna took this picture yesterday.  Don't you just love Kenzie's smile?  She has the best smile.  I love how she scrunches her nose.  I love how happy Owen is.  I love that he has his arm around her.  I feel that he is showing how much he loves her but is also being very protective.  I always wanted a boy first so that he could be the protective older brother.  I think I lucked out.