Busy Bees

I know I haven't posted about us in awhile. Things have been busy. I'm sure things are busy with you as well. 

In order to play catch up, I'm going to make this a text only post. I'll have follow up posts I promise. There's a list going of everything I want to post about. I'm sure I'm missing something(s) along the way.

Right before Christmas Travis went to see his parents. I played single Mom for 4 or so days. When he got back it was a rush of trying to:

1. Wrap the rest of the presents
2. Figure out what we were going to make for Christmas Eve and Christmas
3. Shopping for food
4. Getting the teacher's gifts together
5. Going to the boy's school holiday performance
6. Making lots of food
7. 2 big family gatherings
8. Santa time
9. Quickly and thoroughly cleaning up after Christmas
10. Putting a 1,000 piece puzzle together
11. Buying more food for New Years
12. Having a New Years Eve Dance Party geared towards kids
13. Each kid got a friend to spend the night
14. We helped Isaak put together a duct tape wallet
15. We figured out if we needed to switch doctors with this new insurance we have
16. We'll have our nephews on Thursday because my nephew Emerson is going in for tests to see what all is going on in his little body.

And the list goes on. I'm sure your list is long like mine is.

Throughout the holidays I've been sick with a cold, or something. I have chronic allergies, so who knows. I'm supposed to call the doctor today - now that we know our insurance is covered. When we signed up for insurance it said 2 of our doctors were not covered. When we looked on our plan online, and boom all of them are covered. That's good. I tried calling yesterday, but like me they had their New Years off. All the hours I can talk to my doctor I work. At work everyone can hear me on the phone. No one wants to listen about how one of my nostrils is completely plugged. It's not the nostril that I have a deviated septum on. Ya breathing is interesting. I'll have to take care of my doctor call during lunch. Then I'll probably still have to talk to them in front of everyone because I'll have to leave a message. Isn't it interesting how doctor's offices make you repeat everything like they didn't hear your message at all?

What has been some of the major things on your list to get done lately?

August Birthday List

This was on our bedroom door. It was from Mica.

Isaak's birthday is later this month. Isaak's happy if I bring him home washers and nuts from the sidewalk. I often go walking during lunch time, and there's a restore organization next to my work. 

Mica's birthday is in August. He's my want...want...want child. I was thinking What the?

I guess I should be congratulating him on his good taste. Two Apple products are on his list. There's no way he's getting them though.

In fact I've gotten him nothing on his list. I got a Ghost Busters Lego Set, awhile back for him.

Nighttime

So...my boys and I have a problem. After about 4 pm the boys loose focus. After 9 pm I loose focus. Don't ask me to do anything in the kitchen after 9. I drop things then. Don't ask the boys to do too much where focus is needed after they get home from school.

We are more morning people.

On the opposite of that Daddy is a night owl. I used to be before kids arrived.

Mica asked me to create a list of things for him to do at bedtime. Then that way I'm not telling him over and over what to do. We're eliminating my nagging qualities, and helping them to remember.

I still have to work on Isaak's bedtime list. With his I actually need to include pictures, since he can't read just yet.

Here's Mica. Inside the "C" in Mica it says, "night" if you can't read it. I'm going to laminate them.