Mondays

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I love Mondays!  I feel like a busy little bee getting back to schedules & cleaning the house!  This morning I decided to get on my hands and knees to mop the kitchen.  I put all the boys down & gave Harper a rag, too (she was into it … for oh about 2 seconds).  I sprayed warm water mixed with a teensy bit of distilled white vinegar onto the floor – after I had swept it and vacuumed it.  Then I proceeded to clean the entire floor… gross!  But now, my feet aren’t sticky when I walk through any more… I wonder how long that will last!!!  
Today I wanted to share something happy.  And this makes me very happy… I laughed until I cried watching my mom re-teach herself how to juggle.  However, by the end of the week, she was a juggling pro… well, sort of…

Look at that determination on Grandma Dee Dee’s face.  
Harper was cackling with glee….  
wish I could have captured her laughter that day.
Oh and today is my nephew, Niko’s birfday… he’s three… Meg & Johnny.. where has time gone?
 
 
We love you!!!
Happy Monday~
ML

Soggy Saturday

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I seriously think we might float away.  We should be at a wedding right now, but instead, we are still hanging out in our pjs and it is 5pm.  I woke up to thunder and hard rain this morning.  I smiled before I opened my eyes because I love rain so much (well for 2-3 days, then I’m done and need sunshine).  I was so cozy in our bed AND I didn’t hear anyone crying.  I looked at the clock expecting to see 6:30 or 7, and it was 8 AM!!!!  My sweet hubby had gotten up, had everyone fed and changed, and was about to make waffles when I got out of bed.  I have dreamily floated through out the rest of the day and have given him lots and lots of kisses to make up for the sleep he gifted me with!

We had a tornado warning this afternoon… do you know what we were doing?  I was giving everyone a bath!  A bath in terrible lighting and thunder…upstairs…away from our “safe place.” Then, the power went out for 5 seconds, and I freaked b/c I had 2 babies in the tub.   “Chris, heeeeeeellllllpppppp!”  (lights back on)  By this point all 4 kiddos were screaming their heads off, but naptime was around the corner!   (I will say, I did not know there was a tornado warning until after bathtime)

(The water got soooo bad that we watched a trailer classroom float down I-24 into an 18 wheeler & self destruct.  The flooding is ridiculous, but we are okay.)

We got everyone in bed and came down the stairs to find that our front door was leaking really really bad in 2 places, so Chris got busy rigging up this.  You should see his madd tapping job… he’s got skillz…

Hope the fix it guys come Monday morning!  Hoping even more that we don’t have to have our whole wall torn down and redone!!

Anyhoo…we had to miss Jackie & Joey’s wedding today.  Congrats guys.  I’m sorry that it rained cats & dogs an entire zoo on your wedding day… but doesn’t that mean lots of blessings??  

We ate quesadillas for dinner tonight, and Arica is hanging out with us b/c she was supposed to babysit for our crew.  We are going to go watch a movie, then I will change into my nighttime set of pjs, and go to bed. 

Tomorrow is a day for worshipping!!!

Mary Lindsey

Fridays (10:100)

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Fridays are our Saturdays.  Chris is off and a calm comes over our home.  Our family is together, and although not a lot changes right now (still on ye ole schedule) it is just nice to have daddy home. 

I am very tired & Chris is pacing the kitchen waiting for me to get off the computer.  So, I will do a quick re-cap of our day. 

homemade bread
fresh brewed coffee
buttercream creamer (this is the best stuff ever!)
crying babies
bottle time
happy babies
crawling babies
install a gate
scramble eggs
wake up harps
cheerios for babies
baby food
crazy family breakfast
naptime
snuggy time – mommy, daddy, harper in our bed
shower time
clean up time
wax one eyebrow
two babies crying
one sleeps on
target run – daddy & harper
mom home – laundry, wrangle babies, talk on the phone to a friend
lunch time – turkey wraps, doritoes, clementines
babyfood
play time on the floor with all
baby einstein  (I don’t care if you are a rip off, you bring peace to our home)
bottle time
harper wants- some-ping else to eat
aaahhh naptime
peace & quiet
read a book
power nap
clean kitchen
start dinner
playtime upstairs
dinner time
family walk
pick flowers
boo-boo & tears
talk to neighbor
feel the storm coming in
get home
band-aid & kisses
bottles ready
sit down & forget what I was doing
oh burp babies
change diapers
harper wants some-ping else to eat
do post-op care on boys
change babies into jammies
harper into jammies
night night babies
read harper “mad babies” (will elaborate on this one more in a future post)
night night harper
sit down 
tired
blog
remember that my wax is still on upstairs & I need to wax my other eyebrow
 press the “reset” button (straighten up downstairs)
wind down
go to bed
the.
end.

Dinner with "Friends" (9:100)

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So, I mentioned in a previous post about my friend, Tara.  We grew up together & danced our way through high school in the same dance company.  It is awesome that we have remained friends through the years, but recently reconnected due to our marvelous multiples!  She has 2 sets of fraternal twins… known as “Team 1 and Team 2” or “The Nats (Nathan & Natalie) and “The Sams” (Samuel & Samantha).”
Well, over Christmas, they sent out some Christmas cards with a picture of Nathan & Natalie enclosed.  The Nats are almost a year older than Harper.  When I showed Harper the picture, she went everywhere with it!  It cracked me up.  One night I was able to snap a few photos of Harper’s dinner with The Nats.  I’m just now getting around to blogging about it. 🙂
Hugging
 
while eating
 
I think she even tried to feed them.
 
 The classic “watch you eat” as in, can they watch me eat?  Harper has to have something “watching her eat” at every meal.  Kind of creepy (yet endearing) to me, but hey, to each his own.
A little dinner conversation…
 

Tara, I can’t wait to get our families together this summer!  Oh the craziness!  Love you girl!
~Mary Lindsey