Socks or Gloves

Yesterday, after all the household chores were done, Brendon and I took the kids over to ISU to go bowling. As we were getting out of the car, I asked all the children if they had remembered to wear socks. Everyone but Gavin said yes. Gavin shrugged and said, "sometime I get socks and gloves mixed up." Sure enough, when we took off his shoes to change into the bowling shoes, he had knit gloves on his feet. BTW, shoes don't fit so good, when you wear gloves instead of socks.

Sick Kids and Sandwiches

The past several days, I have had sick children. It started last Thursday when Gabrielle threw up in the very early morning. She threw up again on Friday morning, and then slept a ton on Saturday. Sunday she seemed to be doing much better so we took her to church and had a pretty normal day. Then on Monday morning she complained of a really upset stomach.

Since she hadn't had a fever any of her sick days, and the symptoms seemed most pronounced on school days, I decided to take her to the doctor. I kind of thought that she might have some anxiety about going to school that was manifesting itself physically since there was no fever. The doctor checked her out and said that he thought she had the stomach flu, and I think he was right. Shortly after returning home from the doctors office, Gabrielle started having diarrhea. (Delightful, I know) He thought she would be feeling better later this week, and I am hoping she can go back to school tomorrow.

Yesterday, I was feeling like we were probably getting to the end of things, but then, very, very early this morning, Gavin started throwing up. I think it's going to be a looong week.

The thing that frustrates me the most is that Gavin told me today how much he loves being sick. I'm guessing he likes being able to watch TV all day, drink 7-up, and eat crackers. I know he loves to stay home and not go anywhere, but I'm thinking to myself "Gavin, if you love being sick, you don't feel sick enough"

And now in lighter news, (again because I am sooo sick of cooking dinner) we are having sandwich week. We bought lots of different kinds of meat, breads, cheeses and condiments and are experimenting to see what kinds of sandwiches we like.

Pizza Week and Painting

This week is Spring Break. The weather has been miserable, but we have been getting a lot of painting done inside the house.

Normally, I plan to do painting inside the house in February. But this year, February was unusually busy, and I just couldn't get to it. I took last Friday off from work and used the day to get started on painting over the green in my front room, kitchen, staircase, and upper level hallway. (It was extra nice that I had arranged to take the day off, since Gavin threw up that day. I'm sure I would have been taking the day off anyway.)

Brendon helped with painting after he got off work on Friday and on Saturday. About the time we were finishing off the hallway, Brendon told me that he had really been wanting to switch the kids bedrooms around.

The girls have been sharing a room again for the past several months. (We have put them in separate rooms, but they are unhappy apart, and usually end up sleeping in the same room anyway.) Since, Benjamin had the largest children's room all to himself (it even has 2 closets), it made sense to switch the rooms.

The girls' bedroom had been purple, so of course then we had to paint the children's rooms. We worked really hard all day on Monday and Tuesday and got both the rooms completely painted and switched around.

I think they are all pretty happy with the changes.

Also, since it is Spring Break it is pizza week. We started last Friday and it has been fantastic to eat pizza every night while we have been painting. I totally appreciated the time off from cooking while I've been so busy.

Gabrielle's Baptism Pictures

Gabrielle was baptized earlier this month. We had a nice day and enjoyed the family that came to support Gabby.

Breakfast Foods Week

Several months back, our family ate pizza every day for a week to determine which pizza place our family liked the best. The kids really enjoyed eating pizza all the time, and have asked if we could repeat the experiment, trying different pizza places this time. We are planning to do another pizza week during Spring Break this March.

Because pizza week was so popular, (and because I am crazy tired of fixing dinner and need to mix things up a little to find some enthusiasm for cooking) we are having Breakfast Foods for dinner week. We started this past Saturday, and I am planning to serve breakfast foods for dinner for 7-10 days, depending on how many ideas I have for dinner, and how sick of breakfast foods we become. I could use some suggestions for preparing eggs. I am hoping to prepare eggs a different way for each night's dinner. Our menu so far had been as follows:

Saturday

Biscuits and gravy

Bacon

Scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese and ham

Bagels w/cinnamon cream cheese spread

(We had both biscuits & gravy & bagels because Brendon and I didn't communicate very well about what we were each planning to do for dinner.)

Sunday

Waffles w/strawberry sauce (I made danish dessert into a fruit sauce and added frozen strawberries) & cool whip

Fried Eggs

Pineapple

Monday

Breakfast sandwiches (english muffins with eggs, sausage, & cheese)

Sliced Apples

Chocolate milk

Tuesday

French toast, spread with peanut butter & topped with corn syrup

Sausage (again because Brendon & the kids loved it)

Yogurt

Bananas

Wednesday

Poached eggs

Toast

Bacon

Orange juice

Thursday

German pancakes w/powdered sugar or nutella

Sausage

Grapes

Chocolate milk

Friday

Omelets

Hash browns

Juice

Benjamin's Buck Nose

When I was a little girl, someone once told me that I had buck teeth. And I thought to myself "well of course I do, my last name is Buck." Some of my children have inherited my "Buck" teeth. Benjamin's were bad enough to require braces with head gear. (He should be getting the braces off in a couple of months and is super excited.)

We were eating dinner as a family a couple of nights ago, and Brendon noticed that Benjamin's nose is changing. He told Benjamin that he was getting a Buck nose. Benjamin said, "Maybe we can get some head gear for my Buck nose."

No More Facebook

I've decided to close my facebook account. I've had a great time keeping up with friends and family there, but...for the last couple of weeks, I have getting messages through facebook from women that I do not know, and in their profile pictures, they aren't wearing anything.

I did let facebook know about the problem. Until I hear back from them with a guarantee that I won't be receiving the messages any longer, my account with them will stay closed.