Getting organized...

So the last few days in our home have been tough. I think they have been tough for the kids but really tough for me. I try not to do a lot of self pitying but this week i didn't do as well as I usually do...

Dans excited because hes figured out a way to stay in ( meaning work away for 5 weeks and come home for one intead of working away 2 weeks and coming home for one)...

Birdie Gail (13 months) has decided to refuse all solids and has reverted to being almost exclusively breastfed ( she will eat sweets though) she is growing like a weed which is comforting and i know her little muscles hurt but mine hurt to when i have to wear the sling all day of pack her on my hip...

The big dog (age 11 going on 26) is... a teenagerish boy.. hes just ... a boy.. i know but still I am the "Head" of the house when my husband is absent and he is required to listen to me... and I CLEANED HIS ROOM... he is soooooo choked!

The prim and Mrs. proper sent some of there toys on "Vacation" (my way of sending them "south" to the basement for the summer season) they have a bare minimum in there rooms now until the garden frost comes next fall. I need the house clean! I will go absolutely crazy if its not. I can not handle gunky rooms so each kid filled a tote and they waved goodbye as it was packed downstairs.

I had a temper tantrum this week.. I decided that all my wool and fabric and needles, all those unfinished and unstarted projects are just never going to get done! My children need me... just about every moment of the day somebody needs me... at first this is frustrating.. I get mad when they unravel my knitting, wont help me weed the garden, insist on sitting on my lap every time i have a hot cup of coffee, want to be "doing what mums doing" so one needle point project turns into their needle point projectsssssss.... But now after my tantrum (In which I put all of those things in boxes, let go of a lot of "stuff" by way of making the kids a huge craft box and took all of the rest into the basement to vacation with the toys) I feel relieved...

Nothing to take me away from my husband, children, and our home... Its kind of refreshing to not be daunted by a thousand and one unfinished things (our home itself is VERY unfinished so it makes a very discouraging backdrop) hanging around.

I am hoping that next week will run smoother. Babies will eat, tweens will comply, attitudes will fade, forgiveness and calm will fill our home. Daddy will be home on Tuesday the same day as the Costco trip, we swim Wednesday with the "non warehouse" shopping to be done and an optometrist apt for daddy, Thursday Nathan and I hit the dentist, Friday is ECO DAY (our homeschooling outing) and Saturday and Sunday are to be spent fixing my french door, reinforcing a header, leveling a floor, and spending time enjoying family, Monday night Mr. Rigger heads back to work... maybe for five weeks?

I got my pictures online WOOO HOO.. with out further ado...

 First the love of my life in his new..... bold glasses

Birdie Gail playing (Not attached to my hip)

J Bear.... disassembling my kitchen cupboards to start his one man band

Birdie Gail Back on my hip

Christmas morning Mrs. Proper showing off her favorite gift

She looks so darn good in that hat! She wants to be a cowgirl when she grows up.

Big dog competed in a curling bonspiel after Xmas... they had a hoot...

Speaking of hoot this is Little Prim with a burrowing owl at our last Eco day

Mr.Melancholy (still working on his stage name) shooting a nice smile.


That's the group.. more to come...