Being sick

just really sucks! Out house is on the 3rd week now, but different people sick. Right now it is Madeline and I. She has ear infections in both ears and a sinus infection poor baby! Not even 7 weeks old and already dealing with her ears! I have a sinus infection and really should have went in yesterday to get meds, but did I? Nope. So it will be a long weekend! I just pray it will get better on it's own since I start work again on Monday.
Anyways, that is about it from us. My mom left for Norway again last night, and we already miss her! So glad she was able to make it here to visit though!

Norway Visitor

The kids and I will be heading up to the Cities this afternoon to pick my mom up from the airport. We are all thrilled to have her come visit us! This will be her first time meeting Madeline, so I am sure they will be spending a lot of time cuddling:)

Madeline is growing fast, and getting her own little personality. Victoria loves spending time with her and singing for her, and Michael love just cuddling her. They will sit on the couch for a long time just looking at each other. I love watching them!

Kevin is home sick today, and was yesterday too. He felt sick over the weekend when we were in Moorhead, but got better. Then Monday night he started feeling yucky again and it has gotten worse. I feel so bad for him! He set up a farewell lunch for the people in his department who were laid off, and now he does not get to go. This is also his last week of part time work before he heads back to work full time again. I am sure that transition will be hard when you have been used to sleeping in every day.
I will start my last full week off from the Y next week as well, and even though I look forward to going back I really enjoy the time at home with the kids. We can bake, play games, watch movies and just hang out. Maybe one time in the future I will get to be a full fledged stay at home mom again. It will be good to have that week off since my mom is here, so that we can visit. I do have to work at my nanny job, but having most of the day off while the kids are at school helps.

So, to catch you all up on what has happened lately here is a list, in no certain order:

• Saw a NDSU Bison game in Fargo - they lost:(
• Ate myself stuffed at KFC - mostly on the biscuits
• Left Madeline with grandma for almost 2 hours (longest I have been out without her!)
• Caught up on laundry - only to have it piled up again the next day
• Made Valentines for both of the kids to bring to school
• Went through baby clothes and packed in boxes to ship to OK
• Spent a long weekend with Kevin's parents in Moorhead. Unfortunately Kevin's mom had to work :(
  
• Searched the net for a fun and long hairdo I can sport whenever I get to the hair dressers
• Decided to make lots of meals to freeze - but did not actually follow through (so I am still craving some of the dishes I wanted to eat!)
• Woke up several times to deal with children who felt they were coughing a lung out
  
• Went through my clothes in the closet and put all maternity clothes in boxes to give back to the rightful owner. Most of them were not even worn once by me as I love my sweats too much!
• Went through my closet again and reluctantly got rid of clothes from high school I KNOW I won't fit into ever again, but kept dreaming I would.
• Napped a few times
• Got sad looking at my empty closet!
• Got happy when I realized it meant smaller piles of laundry!
  
• Got excited about the snow melting and grass showing
• Woke up to help children whose ears were hurting
  
• Got depressed about it snowing again, covering the brown grass!
• Cleaned the kids' rooms for the 100th time, threatening to throw away anything left on the floor (for the 200th time). Still have yet to get a thrash bag out to actually pick the things up that are out now...:)
• Cuddled with Madeline, Michael, Victoria and Kevin!
  
• Slept on the couch to keep hubby company while he slept in the recliner chair last night (actually, it was more for me than for him as I sleep horribly when he is not in the room with me)
• Finished the Twilight Series. Now I want to watch the movie!
• Started a book that I never finished - just did not grab me.
• Started another book that is scary! About a house that is alive....also one of the reasons I slept on the couch and not in my bed.....
  

Hm....not a very exciting life, huh? I wouldn't trade it for anything though! Except for the parts where I have to wake up in the middle of the night that is.

Have a wonderful day/week you all!

How to tame kids' clutter!

So on one of my regular blogs that I read I found this link to a link party. At The Shabby Nest you can find links to other blogs where people share their ideas on how to tame the clutter in their house that kids make. Check it out!
I am eating my lunch checking each and every one of the blogs out. So many neat ideas! Now, if I could only afford to get all the extra boxes and storage for the de-cluttering!

Madeline's announcement - I think :)

I got this done for free, but I am not sure I am going to use it as I am not satisfied with all the pictures I picked for it. I was kind of rushed. Oh well, here it is :)

Stuffy noses

are just so much worse when they are in your kids and not you! Madeline started getting a stuffy nose yesterday and last night it was horrible. I feel so bad for her! Especially while trying to eat! She is a champ though and did not complain a lot. I raised her mattress, let her sleep in bed with me (on a wedge) and finally put her in her bouncy seat to sleep. It helped a little, but not a ton. Right now she is sleeping in her car seat, and it seems to help also. Hopefully it will go away soon!
Last night we took the kids to the pool and while sitting in the pool area she was doing great, so it might just be because of the dry air in our house.

Forgive me Friends, for I am not keeping up!

Over two weeks have passed and I am not doing well with keeping the blog going. Sorry!
I really have plenty of time. All I do is dork around on facebook, play with the kiddos (which is very important by the way!), drink hot chocolate (my new love), surf the web for a new cell phone, and making my to-do-list grow! Oh, and every now and then I clean a big and do some laundry too. Such busy life I tell ya!

Next week I am going back to work at my nanny job and I am looking forward to it. It is good to have a reason to get out of the house for a bit, even if it is for work! I will have four weeks of nannying before I go back to the Y to work. My mom will be here the last of those weeks. I am so excited!

Oh, good news! Our friends in Fargo who delivered their twins the Friday before Madeline was born finally got to bring their little girl home today! I am so excited! She was not gaining enough weight, so she had to stay behind when her brother came home. It made me so sad to hear! I know their mom and dad are just thrilled to be all together in one home, which will be amazingly busy now I am sure with a 15 month old and newborn twins!

Today the girl I nanny for (not that she really needs me anymore other than for rides) turned 16!! I have worked for this family for almost 7 years now, so she was only 9 when I started working for them! hmm....feels like I might have written this before - I have to go back in the blog and check. I can't remember anything from one day to the other anymore! I blame it on the nursing fog (or something like that anyways).
Which reminds me, I only had to wake up twice to feed Madeline last night! Then she woke up again around 6:30, but only to snuggle, not eat. It was awesome! She certainly is a grunter though, so throughout the night I did wake up a bit as her grunts are louder than Kevin's snores! No need to get out of bed for grunts though:)

Well, I better get back to being busy ya know :) Lots of facebook talk and status changes to keep track of:)

My cousin is getting married

on my wedding date! I think it is so awesome! On my 12th anniversary she'll be saying yes to her fiancee. Just wanted to throw that out there! She is an adorable girl and he is a cute looking guy too, although I have never actually met him! I hope we can change that in not too long. If only the economy in this world was better! I'd be racing home to hang with family right away.

I know I am behind on blogging, so I promise to TRY to make up in the next few days. I have had to promise to nap every day the rest of the week though, so I am not sure I can make that blogging thing happen.
I start work again next week (one of my jobs) so life is slowly but surely picking up its normal pace.