Will IT End??

I have been diligently working on getting rid of my clutter. I have been living in 'CHAOS' (can't have anyone over syndrome) for 26 years now!! In order to correctly follow the meaning it's only been 8 years, but believe me....it's been my WHOLE life!!! This is a mountain I am able to tackle because of Flylady. I had started to fall off the wagon, but since attending the 'flyfest' on Saturday and seeing that I am not alone has really kept me going! Plus, Taylor's Birthday party is on Saturday and I KNOW that I have to have the house in order for that! I work much better when I have a deadline!

Yesterday, I busted my butt and the kitchen is decluttered. Did you know that there is a top to the fridge??? I didn't know they always had one? I thought they arrived with a top and then it went away. None of my other fridges had tops? Only two times each. Once when we moved and and the second time was when we moved out! How crazy is that??
My counters are cleaned off, my ledge is cleaned off. Only the necessities are out!! Yay!!

I cleaned the Hutch off in my dining room and there is NOTHING on my table.

Wow! I was starting to feel like I wasn't getting anything done. But I feel alot better after rereading this!!

I've had my 15 minute break, now off to do more before I go get the girls from school!!

Fall Is My Favorite!

I've felt for a long time that Fall is my favorite season. I just hadn't realized how true that was until after I had painted most of the rooms in my house. When fall 'arrived' on the calendar, I was sitting in the dining room telling my poor hubby, probably for the 500th time, that fall was my 'favorite'.

Me: Did you know fall is my favorite season?

Him: Yes!

Me: I just love the colors!

Him: I know.

Me: How do you know? Have I told you before?

Him: Yes, but another way I know is that practically every room in our house is a fallish color.

(Actually, he didn't say 'fallish', I added that, he would kill me if he knew! 'Fallish is not 'his' word!!) LOL

Me: Oh, I guess I have!!

So that really got me wanting to go all out and decorate this fall. I'm still unpacking. I know, that is just horrible. We have been here for 4 months now and we are still living out of ALOT of boxes. I have a disease. I am a 'clutterbug'! We have moved so much stuff with us. I admit, a lot of it is trash. I am slowly getting rid of it and that is why I have procrastinated my unpacking. I am making some head way. So to reward myself I have done a little 'fall decorating'!

Here are a couple of pics I would like to share!

I have both of these setting on my mantel.

Sean picked out the spider. I thought it was crazy at first, but ol' spidey has grown on me!!

This is the light fixture in our Dining Room!

Like I said, it's just a little, but I hope it's enough to keep me decluttering, so I can put up more!!

The EASY job!!

I made sure ALL the girls got their baths the other night! (Believe me, this is a rare feat!!) Hayleigh was very tired and almost didn't make it to her bath! So I quickly bathed her and handed her to Sean. I finished Dakoda's bath rather quickly, or so I thought. I went back in to get Hayleigh. I was really wanting to nurse her before she went down for the night. However, that was not the plan! This is what I found when I walked into the kitchen!!




How come Daddy's always get the easy job?? Sweet little thing! She is definately her Daddy's girl! When I walked in to get her......She was sleeping to 'Gun's & Roses' !! Sean has been able to put ALL four of the girls to sleep at one time or another listening to G&R!!!

A New Carpet Cleaner!!

There are many days since getting our new puppy, that I look at him and wonder, "What the Hell was I thinking?" Seriously? I have four children and a husband. What was I thinking getting a puppy? There are days he does excellent! Goes pee and poop on his little potty mat. Sits nicely next to me while I'm nursing the baby. Plays fetch like it's going out of style!!
Then there are the OTHER days. If he's already peed twice and pooped once on his mat and I haven't changed it......he will go pee in the entry way or right in the MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR!!!!.. where I'm not expecting it so I step in it!!! EEWW GROSS!!!!!! I swear that dog does that just to spite me. I pet him and talk nice to him and feed him and play with him. Then I go take care of one of my 'REAL' children and he HATES me!!! Does anything he can because he knows it's going to piss me off!!!!

Not this morning however!!! This morning was when I had one of those moments that I remembered..... I still like this dog!! I took him upstairs with me to wake the girls this morning. On the floor there was a spot of pop tart insides! I will admit...it has been there awhile. I keep forgetting about it. I figure it wasn't too serious. It's not poop, right? Anyway, that dog spent a good 10 minutes licking around on that spot!!! It was the size of a half dollar. He just kept licking around on it. Even tried to bite it! Thankfully we have berber or I probably wouldn't, no I wouldn't have let him do that! We needed to go downstairs for breakfast so I couldn't leave him to finsih it. I'm sure if I would have it would be gone! You can barely see it. I'm just as happy about that!!! No more pop tart guts!!!!

T-ball

The girls are playing t-ball/softball this year. They've never played before and I honestly do not know why we haven't had them on a team? The only reason it happened this year was because our new neighbors coach a team and we were invited to play on it! Yay!!

We had one practice on Saturday the 6th and then Sunday night at 9pm Dawn (our neighbor) ran over and told us we had a game Monday night!!! So Monday morning I had to go get t-shirts and get "Ladybugs" put on the front with their nicknames and number on the back! Talk about a whirlwind morning!!! LOL

We were late to the game because of some miscommunication on the directions. We left in plenty of time we just didn't go to the correct spot until the game was starting! To top it off, it was sprinkling. The girls were nervous! Oh, yeah! To back track, Monday morning when I woke Maddie up for school and told her about the game. All she could keep saying was, "Crap! Crap, crap, crap!! I don't know how to play the game!!! We've only had ONE practice!!!"

I chuckled about that all day!!

To make matters worse, Madison was passed while she was on 2nd base. The batter passed her because the 3rd base coach did not tell her to run. I felt bad because then there was an out. Which was fine. Lesson learned. Or so I thought. Next time the Ladybugs were up to bat, it happened again. In front of me a guy and a couple girls where saying. 'She just stands there!!!' 'That's the second time that's happened.' What's wrong with her?'

The 'momma bear' in me kicked in and I said, "Well, this is the first time she's ever played!!!!!" He says, " Has she been to practice?" Momma bear: "She went to the ONE practice we had!!!"

Guy: "Oh! Well, she will get better as the season goes on!" DAMN RIGHT SHE WILL!!!! I told myself!!

I told my mom the story and she wondered if the guy knew who my husband was?? I thought that was pretty funny. Apparently he didn't, but he found out at the next game!! LOL

Sean was coaching 1st base and the regular for 3rd wasn't there so the 'guy' had to coach 3rd.

Sean asked me later what was up with the 3rd base coach cause he didn't stay on the field. I told S he was the one who was talking about M! He said, 'Oh... that explains it!!'

The 3rd game, 'guy' had to coach 3rd base again and after the game S told me that 'guy' told him that your girls have made 'great advances'!! S said he was stuttering when he said. We think he was kissing hiney and not wanting a fight!!! LOL

Anyway, the 3rd game was really good! Taylor scored 3 runs and Madison hit a home run!! It was so much fun!! We got to get ice cream from DQ afterwards!! Thanks Maddie!!!

First Tooth!!

My last babies first tooth is just breaking through the gum!! I am both happy and sad!! I don't have a toothless little cutie anymore! Now I have a precious little baby who is probably going to try and bite my poor boobies while I am feeding her!!! I know it will be fine. The other 3 girls already had between 2 and 4 teeth already! This is definately a blessing!!

Not the best picture but what do you expect from a little wiggler?!

It's just the bottom right for now, but upon closer inspection I'm sure the left is closely behind.

I find it odd that both dog and baby are cutting teeth! What are the chances of that happening??

Shark-Dog

So, our puppy is losing his baby teeth. Actually, he's been doing this for awhile. I haven't had any problems with it and I guess I still don't. The lady who brought him told us he would be doing this and the only question I had for her was whether or not I was going to be finding baby teeth around or if he was going to swallow them? Silly, I know but I figured one of the kids would pick them up and eat them!! (Dakoda!!)
Anyway the whole reason for this post is: The other day I was playing fetch with Evan and I've been instructing the girls not to rip the toy out of Evan's mouth when he brings it back. Either wait for him to drop it or use the command 'drop-it' They were doing pretty good or so I thought until Madison screams, 'WHY IS THERE BLOOD ALL OVER THE CHEW TOY!!!?????!!!!' Upon closer inspection there were just a couple red spots here and there. But I looked in E's mouth anyway and sure enough a tooth was gone! I was a little wierded out. I was hoping like heck that it was a baby tooth gone and not an adult.
I kind of forgot about it for a week and yesterday when we were playing fetch again, (we play everyday, it's not just once a week in case you are wondering! :D ) I looked in his mouth just to check on his teeth and he has 2 rows of everything!!!!! (Well, almost, not the one that came out of course!) But it reminded me of a sharks teeth!!
When I told Sean the story, he thought he was being clever when he called Evan 'Shark-Dog'!! I didn't argue! I let him have his glory! I wanted to post a picture, but I couldn't get the puppy to hold still long enough to do that! That would have been the perfect time to have 2 or 3 more arms and hands!!
Till next time!!