Tuesday

Feels like Monday still. I am really looking forward to getting to sleep in after taking kids to school only two more days this week. Daylight savings time still has got me beat every morning. It has just been really hard waking up lately. Also I don't like waking up when it is still dark outside. Poor Justin is almost late everyday. So I am always yelling in the mornings lets go, get in the car, get moving and most of the time it is Caleb who we are waiting on to get out the door, pretty much every morning. That child is so hard to wake up and he is mean in the morning, really mean.

I really can't believe I am still blogging. I just wanted to mention that. LOL!

Cam's Bday pics

Kraze

Have I talked about how awesome my quartet is lately? We are now ready to go to competition in three weeks. That leaves little time to finish the final product of performing on competition stage. I am so excited this year. This is the year that my chorus has to win first place and score higher than 623, and it is the year I might get a medal for quarteting. I have only been in one other competing quartet and that was two years ago. We came in 6th and won novice quartet. This year we do not qualify for novice. All of us have competed before and the other three have all medaled before. I will try not to let the medal control me, but it is hard when you want one so bad.

So we have our costume, and yesterday I bought our earrings. It was almost like the earrings were meant to go with this costume.



We are still trying to decide if we want to buy another top, but right now we might just go with wearing our own black tops. Quarteting can get expensive, when you pay for music, contest fees, coaches, costumes, hotels, etc. If and when we get a medal we will be able to book gigs and make money for our quartet so it won't come out of our own pockets. I am excitingly waiting.

Spent

Man, what a day! I am just spent. Since 2:00 I have been running around like crazy, being mommy, teaching, teaching, being mommy and teaching, and being mommy. Wednesdays have almost become stressful to me since I have taken on the Wednesday night class at church. Cameron is so wishy washy about going to his class that tonight he wouldn't go. Then one of the ladies said , oh I can get him to go and I said please do, so she took him and he went. I am glad, because it was very difficult to teach my class and have him running around not sitting still having me say Cameron come sit down. She has offered to help again next week if I need her. It just stresses me. My shoulders and neck are hurting tonight cause I am feeling the stress.

I also picked up the musical theatre class on Wednesdays so, I go from teaching 2 lessons, straight into musical theatre, then rush home, then back out the door to go teach Kindergarteners at church, then we wait an extra 40 min for Caleb to get done with Youth group. This is the part that really stresses me, having two tired little boys in the car for that long waiting on their brother. They are cranky and then it makes me cranky. I can't wait till it gets warmer and they can play outside on the playground while we wait. Okay I am putting kids to bed now.

Vera, oh Vera

I have a collection of Vera Bradley bags. None of which are the same pattern. I prefer to buy different patterns. So I have been wanting to buy a new purse since before Christmas and I just can't bring myself to do it. The only bags I carry anymore are Vera bags. The backpack will hold anything, and I do mean it, just when I think I can't put anything else in it , I surprise myself and I do. So here is a pic of the pattern that I really like. I just hope it looks like a bag I can carry all through the year.



Then there is this pattern that I like too but I am not sure I could carry it everyday cause of the colors. I rarely wear the blue and green shown here. But I like the pattern. Oh decisions, decisions.

Birthday Plan

Here is a picture of the cake I just ordered for Cameron's Birthday party.
I decided to just have the party here at home for the playgroup that week. We have the perfect backyard, weather permitting. There are picnic tables and a playground, and then my back door is only a few steps away. So that is the plan for the 14th.

A snow day, hooray!

This was Cameron's first snow day and he couldn't keep his hands out of it. Well then he started screaming, cause his hands were so cold it hurt. He cried and cried, and I started a fire in the fireplace so he could warm up.

I'm the best blogger in the world!

Yeah right! I barely blog at all if you haven't noticed. Lets see, it was the most beautiful weekend. The temp was up in the 70's today, so we took a walk on the Greenway yesterday and today. It was crowded, no where to park. I would like to start to walk on the Greenway everyday after I take Caleb to school. Now that the weather is getting nicer, it would be a perfect way to get in some exercise.

I am trying to keep Cameron in worship with us at church now. He turns three in a few weeks and he really needs to learn to sit still and quiet. HAHAHA!!!! I was so tired after church cause he was not very good. IF he would just not talk it would be okay but he continually talks loudly. So he got to be taken out. Well when it was time for communion he grabbed one of the crackers/loaf. Well it was too late then he already had it so I just let him eat it or else there would have been a huge scene on his part. Then he says loudly "MMmmmm Yummy". Yes he is a stinker.

Speaking of his birthday, I am really supposed to be planning that right now rather than blogging. So tomorrow I am going to call the Discovery Center, since we are members we can do a party for less. If they have a space for us I am gonna book it. If not then we are off to CEC! Not my favorite place to take him lately but he loves it. Till next time.