soooo tired...

Miss Camille, enjoying her last day of being eleven months old, crawled into the kitchen, got in the "rain car", and drove backards across the room....how can she know these things? Someone REALLY needs a haircut.....and yes, he picked out his clothes....

Wow, leaves are interesting.....

Charlotte Claire lugged this apple around, then had a fit when we were going in the house, because she had left it in the wagon....and she hasn't even taken a bite yet....

Sunshine.



Jonathan Robert....

Chocolate milk....

Just being outside was nice for Miss Adventurer....

I told the three little girls this morning when they got up to be really good for me, I am so tired I can't remember their names....So Sonja said, "I'm Sonja, and that's Suzanne over there....."

I was up at 6:30 yesterday morning, and when I hadn't been to sleep yet at 2:30 this morning, I had been up for 20 hours.....I finally gave Miss Fussy Baby some Tylenol. And after rocking and fussing for another 2 hours, she finally conked. I sneaked her back into her little pink bed, and I do believe I was asleep before my head hit the pillow. Just a bit over two hours later, it was seven o'clock, time to get up! I was tempted to just roll over and go back to sleep.......really tempted...

So, remembering the title to my morning post yesterday, "This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it....", I determined to do just that. Then, Charlotte Claire woke up and came out here, jabbering about how there was a mess in her crib....I smelled it (sorry nasueas pregnant women).....and yeah, she had thrown-up during the night. (It did occur to me at some point that she COULD have cried when it happened, and thankfully she just slept.....I would be more tired than I am!)....anyway, shower for her, immediately....and her bedding.....I hate to admit it, but I threw away the sheet..

Yah, so it has been a challenging day. I thought I would just sneak in a few loads of laundry, take care of the kids and not try to do to much. So it seemed logical to bring them outside to play in the sixty something degree weather. I put some old pants on Camille, so she could crawl in the leaves. We went out with bottles and a sippy cup, apples, peanut-butter cookies, some Gerber baby snacks, and a napkin. And the camera.

After I got tired of rescuing the crawlilng Camille from things she shouldn't have, like fallen pears and the wet dirty sandbox lid, I called it quits and dragged them back inside. I made a big pot of popcorn (yes, the stove top stuff, with butter)....and put Camille in for her nap...and I am counting the minutes until the school kids get home so I can join her.....I just hope she doesn't wake up before that.....

Okay, I can't keep quiet anymore. Why is okay to vote FOR someone just because of their race, but horrible to NOT vote for someone because of race? There was a local 8th grade teacher, who actually told her students that whoever didn't vote for Mr. Pres. elect was racist. Come on. I personally don't care what race you are, if you think that in this great country, One Nation Under God, that it is okay to kill the unborn, I will not vote for you. If you think it's okay to take more money from hardworking people to fund the underpriveledged-lazy, then I will not vote for you. (I have a daughter who works her tail off. She makes a good wage. Really good. She has health insurance. She is going to college part time while she works full time. She will end up making more money. And working very hard. I have a son. He plays his guitar, alot. If he chooses to sit around and play his guitar, and doesn't go to college (yes, she has loans), WHY IN THE HECK SHOULD SHE FUND HIS HEALTH INSURANCE? ) Anyway, spreading the wealth is nothing short of socialism. We have plenty of programs in place already for people who are going through hard times. I am not saying we should take those away. I just think that health insurance is something that is an incentive to get a good job. Our insurance only covers the kids until a certain age, unless they are in college. So, they either have to get a job with insurance (with no college education, good luck), or go to college to stay on the insurance....that is INCENTIVE. Since when did government become the mommy and daddy of the people? Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.......

I am probably too tired to be spouting about politics.....if you don't agree with me, I really don't care. I will still love you. My parents disagreed almost totally politically. It has been coming back to me recently, how she used to go vote to "cancel out Daddy's vote".....but she would never come out and say who she voted for. Politics can be the great divider. I have told the kids not to go to school and argue with the kids about the new leader. It doesn't do any good. And kids follow what their parents say, mostly, and can't help it if they fall for the idealism. Change. The people want change......oh, stop me, somebody stop me....

On a better note, I am going to take the best nap in the world today. Nobody is going to wake me up for a stupid phone call, or by slamming doors. Camille is going to stay asleep, or if she wakes up, one of the school kids will come in and get her right away, so I can drift right back to sleep. Maybe someone will even start dinner while I slumber......hey, it doesn't hurt to dream.