What a week!!!

Warning, this one's kinda long. I'm sure all of you have had these weeks, probably more are like this than not, they typically are in my house, however this one was cram packed. Translation... way too busy, but loads of fun and work. I've been dying to hit the keyboard and post, however there wasn't any time for it. So you say, what was so crazy, let me tell you in a nutshell...... The week started with my oldest daughter sick all day Sunday and part of Monday, which meant mommy was primarily housebound and we needed groceries in the worst way. So we cleaned house, hubby worked at a second job and then went to a friends for dinner and Monday night football. Hubby was home all week, which is always pleasant, however he was sick half the time due to an allergy to sheetrock and the fix-it-all husband of mine decided to drill a hole in a wall to run some wiring for some family and whalla.... instant illness. He also had many, many at-home tasks to complete and mother nature wasn't working in our favor regarding some of his outdoor duties, so he was working like crazy trying to complete his hunny-do-list between periods of slight rain and my availability. My car is finally in the shop getting the a/c fixed amongst other needed minor fixers, and I am exhilirated about driving a car with working windows, a/c, and speedometer. I had a crazy busy schedule at work, the kind when you don't have time to take a bathroom break, and to top it off we had extra meetings, and then take a crazy whole family trip to Wally world and buy groceries. Dakota had a different week at school, we had a parent teacher conference 7:30 Tuesday morning, and it was homecoming week, which made for a crazy week of no dress code and themed dressing days.



Dakota dressed in her Wacky Wednesday get up (I think the tights made the outfit!)

She loved wacky Wednesday. After a full day Thursday of school and work, and teaching a gym class at Dakota's school, then completing our parent partner hours of picking up trash, watering and weeding, we ran home, cleaned up and went to the Lazaro's for Blakey's 6th birthday.

Levi grinning at Blakey's party "When do I get cake?"

Mouths too full for smiles
Levi with Kindle's best friend Ethan (and Blakey's new motorcycle)
I think the big girls thought they were too big to party like the little ones
Patiently waiting her piece with friends
Ready to watch Blake open presents

During our stay, Kindle chipped her tooth on the trampoline and Blakey's cousin broke her arm. Daddy wasn't able to celebrate with us because he had a double header with his softball team. Then we woke up early on Friday to rush to court and evict our no paying tenant, which I am glad to state, we won! She's out in 5 days. Then we took our lovely kiddos to eat ice-cream as a reward for Dakota's wonderful grades, I'm happy to state her progress report shows three 100's and two 99's, and the rest are all E's for excellent. She is blessed with knowledge. Levi also had his first day at school with no corrections! We are very excited. He currently has to walk with his class on the chain gang rope and a child leash, but he's not running away from the class anymore and his teachers are thrilled. Kindle was rewarded for always staying on green during her classtime, which means she always behaves. Then we rushed down to get new tires on my car, it really, really needed some, and leave it at the shop. Finally we stopped and visited with Chad's parents for a minute and spent the rest of the evening with friends playing games, haven't done that in a long while. Early Saturday morning, the hubby's went fishing and the kiddos and I began to clean house and I got my volunteer info ready for church. All of this happened in one exhausting week. Sunday has been a wonderful Sabbath, watching football, playing with the kids, and visiting my sister and her family for dinner. I have loved every minute of it, but I am praying for a little less business this week and some more quiet time with our Maker. Food for thought.... Did you know less than 10% of Christian families have any type of faith discussion at home? This was shocking news to me. Please spend intentional time with your kids, they are the most precious gifts you will ever receive and it is our jobs as parents to train them up in the ways of the Lord. Just speaking plainly.