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Fast forward 13 years and I’ve had quite a busy day.  Last night didn’t end until today at 1:30am.  I am slammed at work and with the summer at hand and no preschool and no L this week, I can’t seem to concentrate during the day.  I seem to go in circles, apparently working but not really accomplishing anything.  So I’ve been spending a few evening trying to catch up.  So I was tired this morning.

At lunch I made pancakes and eggs for us and then we got in the pool.  The water had gotten a little cool because of the rain so I spent my time laying on the deck.  And yes, we have a deck.  Or at least a partial one.   The main deck has all the boards, it just needs the railing.  There’s a smaller deck that attaches that he’ll work on next.  He’s off this weekend so I assume he’ll be doing that then.

This afternoon I went and picked up my rings from the jewelers.  They fit perfectly and I’m enjoying them.  Ladies, you remember when you first got your engagement ring and you kept looking at it.  Holding it up on the steering wheel as you drove, taking a peek in a passing mirror, staring at your hands at the keyboard…that’s sort of how I am now.  It feels weird to have a new set after all this time.  This one is much different and just has a different vibe about it.  I know the stone is not real, but I’m mentally preparing myself for my hopefully 10 year anniversary present!  I can’t imagine how much staring I’ll do after that.

Lexi amazingly took a nap this afternoon and I had to wake her up at 6.  I got take out from Olive Garden and took it to Mom and Dad’s new house where they are still working on it before the furniture gets moved in tomorrow. The house is really looking different and really, really good.  Her bonus room is painted brown on the walls and then a green on the ceiling.  It’s the exact colors of my house and I love it.  I wanted to stay in there.

The girls seem to like their house.  Mom calls it the princess house so the girls will be excited about the move.  But Emma started asking questions tonight as to why they had to sell the old house and they couldn’t live there anymore.  I’m sure she misses her other house, she loved going there.

Scott is working again tonight so I’m on my own.  Probably will stay up for a little while and work.  I’m really, really tired though so I doubt it will be long.

I started the day pretty tired and then headed into the office right at lunchtime for a marathon of meetings all afternoon.  I left as soon as I could from that to head to bible study and then immediately went upstairs to get ready for youth group.  After that, I had to go home and switch the Land Rover for the van and go get the girls.  Lexi fell asleep on the way home and I put her straight to bed.  I also put Emma in her jammies and put her to bed.  So now I’m here, not much to report from the day, just a couple things to note.

One is that Scott decided while I was gone to work to take Lexi’s crib down and left her with just her toddler bed in there.   I saw it in the garage in pieces when I drove up to switch cars tonight and I was like No, he didn’t.  Lexi has been saying she wants to keep her crib and Lexi is very particular about having certain things certain ways so I’ve been worried she wouldn’t sleep in it, read: she would end up sleeping in my bed or not at all.  And Scott is gone to work tonight, so thanks for leaving me with that.  He kind of laughed when he stopped by a little bit ago and said, Uh, yeah, I was halfway done putting it together and realized I would be gone and thought uh oh, I might be in trouble for this.  But, Lexi fell asleep on the way home and I put her down without waking her up.  If she’s woken up since then, it hasn’t bothered her.  The biggest deal actually will be in the morning and she can crawl out of bed instead of waiting until I decide to get her out. Usually I do go get her but if she happens to start sneaking around the house before I wake up, it could be disastrous.

I’ll post the other stuff about the bible study in another post….

This evening ended up being a big rearrangement of the girls rooms.  Dad and Scott brought my old furniture over which required Emma’s room to be flipped around to include the desk I wasn’t expecting.  I think Emma is still unsure of it.  Scott actually found her crying silently after we put her to bed, which she never does, complaining we had left her alone.  I think she’ll be fine tomorrow, just change is hard for her sometimes.  Her room wasn’t “right” according to her.  Lexi has yet to see her room differently which may freak her out.  All of Mom’s moving has her out of sorts.  Last night she pointed at Mom and said, “You’re house is a mess.  You’re biigg trouble.”  LOL

I went to the gym right after work.  I haven’t been since the week before camp when I had gone like 5 times that week.  It felt great.  I burned 350 calories on the elliptical and then did some free weights and ab work.  I really would like to lose 5 lbs and keep that off.  I’ve gained a few (literally like 2) recently which is on top of a few I had gained last year and now I’m about 5 lbs over what I’d like to be.  Sounds like nothing but now my pants are tighter than I’d like and I really don’t want to have to go out and buy new ones.  I really would just like to lose 5 lbs and it sounds easy enough but getting it off and keeping it off are two different things.  I’ve tried to eat less and I can make myself do that without too much issue but then I get really cranky.  And I’ve been working out but supposedly to actually lose weight instead of sustaining, you have to work out 5-6 times a week.  And that’s really hard for me to do.  I have to make a concerted effort to make it a priority every single day to make time for it.  Well, if anyone knows of a way to take off a few pounds easily, let me know.

 Lexi fell asleep around 6:15 and has yet to wake up. I have a feeling she will wake up in just a little bit and be up late or be up way too early in the morning.  Neither of which I’m looking forward to.

I really tried to spend as much time with Emma as I could after we got back from the gym.  I really think she needed some Mommy time.  She kept asking to do everything with me.  So I have a few Emma stories to share.

What comes out of the sink, falls out when there’s no stopper and you stir it in a bowl with tools?  Hopefully you’ve answered water.  That was Emma’s clues for me tonight, one game we like to play.  The next was What looks like a rainbow and is blue, pink, yellow and green?  You wouldn’t know the answer because it’s our hammock in our back yard.  Heather came over and even while we were in the back yard, she was stumped.

So I’ve mentioned Emma likes questions.  Tonight’s interesting question was Why do trees have leaves?  After trying to dodge the question to no avail, I finally give her the answer:  Well, when we breathe in we breathe in something called oxygen.  You can’t see it but it’s there.  And when we breathe out, we breathe out carbon dioxide.  The leaves on the trees give off oxygen even though you don’t see it.  So we need leaves on trees so we can breathe.”  Emma just says, “Oh.”  No more questions after that answer.  It’s amazing, sort of like she gets it and she really wanted to detailed answer.  And I’m not sure that’s exactly why trees have leaves but I guess it was close enough.

So I’m thinking Emma’s getting really close to be ready to read.  Today she says how do you spell Pochontas.  She’s trying to sound it out and I ask her what she thinks it starts with.  She says “P, I already wrote that down”.  And sure enough she had on her paper.  And then she says “Po” and I ask what letter she thinks is next and she says “O!”.  She got tripped up on the “ch” and gave up after that but I’m thinking it’s a good sign that she is understanding that letters make up words and is actually trying to write them down.

And then, I was reading her a book tonight and the first word of a sentence in a paragraph was “As” and she says, “Who is A-say?”  My girl was trying to read! 

So I bought that book teach your child to read in 100 easy steps or something like that and I really think it’s time to go through it.  Wow, what if she’s reading this summer.  She still has a year before she starts school!!