I'm so proud.

Oooooh, I'm so proud of my cuties who make me bonkers! We did set the clocks ahead and the kids were up, dressed, and all ready for church on time this morning. Since they looked so nice, I had them sit so I could take a picture. Joshua was fine until I started clicking the camera. You can clearly see his attitude here. That's the face I got in every one of the 5 shots I took. Later he told me he was mad that I took away his pencil. Yeah, the pencil he had been holding up in front of his face!

Anyway, since we got the computer wiped, I have lost my Roxio PhotoSuite, which I loved. Now I don't have anything to clean up the red-eye and all. So, sorry about that. I'll suck it up and buy something eventually. Any recomendations? What photo doctoring program do you like?

Making me crazy!

I've been cooped up at home for way too long! Delaney was under the weather on Monday. Marian was sick on Monday and a bit better on Tuesday. I sent her to preschool on Wednesday because she seemed okay. She spent that afternoon on the couch and both Marian and Callie were zonked and miserable on the couch on Thursday. No one went to preschool today. I hate being stuck at home. It makes me nuts. I seriously have to get out of the house every day.

I admit that yesterday I did go to the movies in the evening, and I saw "27 Dresses." I did like it. Today after Dan came home I abandoned him again with the kids and I went to the grand opening of the new Walmart in town. Yay! This is what the kids looked like this week.

When they weren't feeling well, they just lay there. Kind of nice actually. Then they would whine because they felt bad and everyone wanted to cuddle with mom, and then there was the crying and unhappiness. Marian was cute. She wanted all her meals on a tray, since that's what Joshua demands when he's not feeling well. I did oblige and she felt special.

Now if I can just keep Dan and Joshua healthy, life will be good. Hopefully everyone will be healthy and happy tomorrow and we can move on with life. This was a time-warp kind of week. I felt like I accomplished nothing because we were mostly stuck at home. I missed Playgroup and my alone-while-kids-are-at-school time, and I've had waaay too little adult conversation. Next week will be better!

Stupid Military

I may have mentioned that Dan had web orders as of Friday. Maybe I forgot. Anyway, he did. We were going to go to DC in June. Well, we planned to move out in June, and I'd run off to visit family while Dan reported in.

On Monday the monitor called and told Dan he had to take the orders back, he couldn't offer Dan the spot. That position had just become a "nomination" position. So now that Dan is excited about this billet; now that he actually WANTS it, they are taking it away! Well, now he has to apply for it. He's been putting together an application package this week, and I guess some other guys will be doing the same thing, and the SecNav will go through them and make a selection. Dan really hopes it will be him.

But it means we are back at square one- hoping to go to DC, but we won't know for a week or 2. The real downside is that if Dan doesn't get picked, we could be screwed. There are no spots open, and we do not know where we would end up. Odds are, not somewhere we want to be, and not doing something Dan wants to be doing.

Oh the thrilling life of the military!

I survived

I did survive being sick. It lingered longer than I wanted. I'm never that sick for that long, so I refused to accept that I might be. I am over it now, as is Delaney. She was only sick for 2 days! Today Marian is feeling puny. We'll see how long it lasts with her and if she's the last or merely in the middle!


Delaney thinks the train table is her personal domain. She stands in the drawers and then climbs on top and hangs out there. She'll play there all afternoon- tossing toys down and complaining until someone gives her more. She's a funny kid.

Joshua got a haircut yesterday. I'm not sure how I did it, but I may have lost my mojo. I can't see what the problem is, or how to fix it, but his hair is just wrong. Somehow I got it wrong and I can't figure out how! Whoops! Hopefully it will look okay in a week! If not, I'll give it another shot. Hee hee hee. He was pretty wiggly, so its not entirely my fault. And Dan always starts it and he manages to get Joshy covered in hair. So then Joshua is itchy and cross and wiggly. That's when it becomes MY turn and I have to even up the fade and make it look good. I did my best! And all because Dan refuses to wait for an hour and spend actual money to have someone else do it.

Just Shoot Me Now

I was so sick yesterday. Sick enough that I can't remember the last time I felt that horrible. ....Maybe 5 years ago when I had an awful infection and I had to have Marian by C-section, or maybe waaay back when I was a freshman in college and had mono so bad I was in the hospital for 3 days. Or maybe I wasn't THAT sick yesterday. I just felt like it.

Today is better. I don't want to die any more, but I sure as heck am not having a good time. Especially when I realize that the world has not stopped for me and the house is a disaster and toys are everyehere and the sink is full of dishes and the girls are out of clean underwear, and joy-of-joys, so am I.