Sleepy-eyed but still has priorities

A late night run to Wal-Mart to get a waterpik for Little Princess (Pictures to come...she is too miserable right now.) because her appliance keep getting gunky and needs helping cleaning it and her braces. Of course, I can't slip out unnoticed and the kids come running with their shopping lists...
So I get home and chase kiddos to bed. FLutter Nutter has already fallen asleep on the couch. I scoop him up and he looks at me all blurry eyed and asks, "Is that you Mommy?" "Is that you Mommy?"
Yes
"Did you get my stuff at Walmart?"
And then back to sleep. Can't tell who his own mommy is, but he can remember his shopping list and to check and see that Mom's job was complete. If only he could remember to put his clothes in the laundry hamper.

Our Little Knight in Shining Armor!

No pictures here today, but Flutter Nutter has his Momma and Daddy shaking their heads and scared to death of what he will try next.
Today, our dear friend Mrs. C came for a visit. She checked to see if a visit would be okay and then went to her van to turn it off. At that time she discovered she never put the van in park, at about the same time the van started rolling backwards. All the children wisely jumped back. All but Flutter Nutter. He jumped forward and grabbed the driver's door and said "Don't worry Mrs. C I will stop your car!" All about the same time she managed to put the car in park. Flutter Nutter of course, doesn't know anything about putting the car in park, he just knows the car has stopped and is so proud. Mrs. C is so humored and tickled by his valient behaviour. And now for the gentle reminder of what we do when a vehicle is moving...move away from the vehicle.
SIGH... Will any of the children all decide at the same moment to make the good and best decision and protect their momma's sanity and nerves?

keyboards...extended warranties

Along with my computer trouble, I am alo having keyboard woes.
It *tarted with the "e" key. I couldn't get it to work all the time. And 'e' i* in a lot of words. Now I am having trouble with the s key...hence the * here and there. It i* really a pain when two of the most often used letters in the Engli*h alphabet fail you. I have found that I have to dig into my creativity to find new and different way* to communicate. A year ago my keyboard did thi* and thankfully the warranty granted me a new keyboard. It ha* not been quite a year, and the trouble has returned. Thankfully BODO took the offer of extended warranty. Time to make another call for a replacement, but al*o find out, what the problem might be. Hopefully fix the problem so it can not return!
I know a lot of people do not take advantage of extended warrantie*. At one time we were like that too. Now with 5 kiddos, life ju*t seems to be hard on THINGS around here. *o for big ticket items we don't want to get *uper angry about.... the warranty is a good option.... I offer yet another explanation for why I have not been blogging lately!

It's been a while...

Considering how busy we have been around here, you would think there would be stories to tell. Although there have been smiles, giggles and laughter, nothing that merited me dropping all that was being done to quickly type a memory before it was forgotten.

Fun Mom and I spent a week working at the church garage sale. Part of the money earned at the sale is divided up among students into a fund for each of them. This helps pay for camps and mission trips. When not working at the sale, I was crazy busy listing things on Ebay. Cleaning out closets and making up lesson plans for this school year.

In the midst of it, my laptop was attacked. Fortunately, Big O Daddy O came to my rescue and fought off the monsters that threatened my organizational lifelines. In the process I he loaded Windows 7 on it. I am thinking I like Windows 7. Fun Mom is disappointed. She was hoping to claim the "wonderous software," BODO brought home from his business trip.

I have worked a couple more shifts at Bingo. We are ever so grateful to the people who offer us their shifts first when they can't work. By the time hockey starts up we will have this year's fees covered and enough set aside to cover equipment costs. These boys think it is okay to keep growing. Hockey Player is up to my shoulder now, maybe a little taller. Little Princess is not far behind.

This past week we started school. HOrror of horrors around here. I hear daily from Daddy's Buddy that it is still summer and there should be no school during summer. What he doesn't realize is that it was purely a loving, protective thing I did in starting their lessons. We have had the hottest days lately. Hitting 109 on two days. Noone wants to be outside. The pool has not been an option. I've been afraid of the burning that would occur on three of the five children in spite of sunscreen and swim shirts. Being cooped up, too much tv, and hot has led to bickering that the momma can't tolerate. The cure...homework! Start now, and take a fall break later when the weather just screams to be enjoyed and it is horribly hard to resist.

So now we are in the day to day school grind. Couple of the kiddos are interested in working ahead which thrills my momma heart. Nothing like getting business done so there is freedom to play when the mood hits.