Amy J. Bennett

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Day 3

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Day 3 pretty much rocked.  I woke up to a clean house this morning.  The kids were taken by Mom for the day by 10.  I took the time to clean the Land Rover at lunch and worked up until 4 when I headed over to my Mom’s to see my aunt and family.  We went to a local Italian festival to eat some yummy yummy lasagna.  We swung by my house for them to see it since they have never been down here.  At that point, I packed up the kids clothes and they went to spend the night with Scott’s parents.  I met back up with all the girls at Ross’s and got some very fun coffee cups and a cake plate.  We headed to Dad’s and watched Mad Money in their theater.  It was a very, very nice relaxing day today.

I’ll head back to Mom’s in the morning to see them off by lunch and I’m not sure what time the kids will come home.  I do need to do a bit of dusting tomorrow and bathtub cleaning but otherwise plan to take it easy tomorrow as well.  However, if I don’t get to sleep very, very soon, I’m going to miss the whole morning, so I guess this is a quick post to say goodnight!

Day 2

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End of day 2 and we’re surviving.  In fact, my house is extraordinarily clean right now.  And I have no idea why I measure our survivorship by the cleanliness of my house but I do.  I guess when things go haywire, the cleaning is the first to go.  If you walk in and there’s dishes everywhere, toys everywhere, most likely, it’s been a crazy day.  But if I manage to get it all picked up, then the craziness must have ended at some point.

I guess.

But right now, it’s looking pretty good.  I did take the time to finally clean all our hardwoods.  My aunt and her family are coming in tomorrow afternoon and Mom warned me they’d probably make a visit.  Which I’m ecstatic about but I did have to do some cleaning.  Which, hey, I really just got a headstart on this weekend.

Anyway.

It’s not saying things have been perfect since he’s been gone.  Let me give you a little rundown of things that have happened just in the past 48 hours…really just in 22 awake hours that I’ve had them.

  • Lexi spent time in the bathroom today with a sink full of water and half a tube of SpongeBob Toothpaste.  When I found her, it was in her hair, in her Barbie’s hair, smeared all over the entire countertop and on the handtowels.  Lexi had two baths today and really could have used three because…
  • Lexi inhaled bubbles when she was blowing bubbles with this new bubble wand thingy in the garage which must have been pretty bad because it made her vomit in the garage and on her clothes.
  • During her two baths, the floors was completely drenched in water.  It took two full towels to wipe it up which I’m now washing…again.
  • Lexi decided she wanted to pour her own cereal in the sunroom into a bowl.  Apparently I didn’t have the eyes in the back of my head open because the next time I walked by, the feet part of the elliptical machine as well as most of the table and floor in the sunroom was full of SmartStart.  I’m guess she didn’t mistake that for the bowl and was just practicing pouring cereal wherever her little heart felt like.
  • But my favorite is us at the post office…Lexi standing in her cherry silk jammies with American flag Crocs because I didn’t feel like fighting with her and Emma is putting on my lipstick.  Like dark lipstick.  Not the gloss kind. Lexi then gets my phone because she likes to see what’s on the camera.  She then starts taking pictures of the lady’s butt in front of us.  I think the lady behind us in line was chuckling while I literally laughed out loud while telling her to not do that.  Then Emma gets my phone while Lexi puts on lipstick and Emma starts playing Akon’s Smack That in the uber quiet post office where about 12 people are patiently waiting in line.  Yeah, we were the rednecks that day.

So while the house is clean, the last 48 hours haven’t been uneventful.

Did anyone else notice most of those started with Lexi??

AI Top 3

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I’m a little late as the Top 2 will be announced within about an hour but a few notes from AI last night:

  • Overall disappointed with song choices.  Usually this week is a great week.
  • Syesha’s Fever is the song that will cost her her place in Top 2.  She sang it well but it was out of place.
  • Her last song was actually really good
  • Archie saying “Boo” was just weird.  I could not believe he sang a Chris Brown song.  Kudos to him for doing something modern though.  Just not sure if THAT’S the song he should have picked.
  • David was great on all his songs

I predict Syesha leaving tonight leaving a David war for the finale.

Scott made it and so far we are making it

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Scott actually called today to say he made it. Their luggage, however, did not. They’re hoping it shows up tonight or in the morning. I’m just hoping he packed some essentials in his carry on bag.

The girls and I are doing fine so far. It really just feels like Scott is on nights right now since we usually don’t see him much. Emma did say she missed Daddy this morning.

I’ve managed to keep everything relatively clean so far..I know it hasn’t been even 24 hours yet but it certainly doesn’t take that long sometimes. I guess when he’s gone I take the extra effort to clean up after us since I know he’s not here to do it. But, shhh, don’t tell him I found where the trash can is…lol

Does this make you want to barf?

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I usually don’t like pictures like this but Emma took these today before Scott left for Turkey and I can’t quit staring at them. I don’t think we’ve had our picture taken kissing since our wedding.



This is the one I printed out and have on my desk.

I think I miss him.

Today’s Turkey Day

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And I don’t mean Thanksgiving.  Scott leaves this afternoon with our church’s Association’s missions director M to fly to Turkey for ten days on missions.  I’ve had all the worst thoughts running through my head and all the best as well.  I’m praying for divine appointment and miracles for them and God’s complete protection and safety.

And on a lighter yet still serious note, I’m praying for me and the kids.  I tend to go a little insane when left to my own devices with the children for several days.  I know should be taking full advantage of the time I have with them and appreciating what lovely children I have but a person can only handle so many spilt drinks, temper tantrums and messy rooms destroyed 30 seconds after being cleaned.  I do have a wonderful family that will all pitch in over the next 10 days but still.  Scott really is our rock around here.  He keeps us all in line and, um, clean.  When he’s gone things can go a little haywire.

So anyway, pray for them and pray for us.

Amazing Picture Number, um, 1

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OK, I usually don’t post things like this but the other weekend when we were at our spring festival I looked over to see this BABY hanging off the monkey bars.  You can see the dad was lifting him up there, letting go and then waiting for him to let go.  The boy never got hurt but I was amazed at this baby’s strength!  Apparently they were too as you can see a family member/friend off to the left filming it.