New game

The former owners of our house left their pool table in the basement. The kids have been discovering new ways to play the game. It will be a fun game to play after the basement gets fixed!

New cousin

Right after moving we got to meet the newest addition to my younger sisters family. Ollie was in love with Baby Anna!

New way of blogging

My new iPhone is good for another thing, blogging on the go. I've stopped taking pictures with my digital camera and using my phone. Or at least for now.
This was the first picture with the new phone.

Good dog

Clara crawled across the yard to snatch Cole's ball. He was very sweet and never tried to take it from her. He only licked it while she held it.

True Life

Life happens. It happened yesterday.
Life isn't always roses and puppies. I had a bad day.
Did I bang my head against a wall?
No. So I guess it was a success.
The kids went to bed by 9 last night. Asleep by 9. A first since we moved. Craig and I watched a movie.
On to brighter and better things. Here are some pictures to update since moving.

Clara's last nap in her first bedroom

All packed up, only a few things didn't make it on the truck

Lunch on the road

Unpacked boxes were a huge hit with the kids

The new house needs some curb appeal

One of the many overgrown shrubs that had to go.
This one was taken out before the truck was unpacked.

We uncovered a second parking spot in the driveway

Ollie was totally into discovering new boundaries at the new house. Lots of possibilities for getting into trouble.

Second set of overgrown shrubs that had to go. One because they were hideous. Two because a retaining wall needed to be built to help with water issues in the basement.

And of course the little boys couldn't let the big boys have all the fun. Landon and Ollie scraped up floor tiles in the basement.

Thoughts of the day

Would a shot of whiskey numb the pain of me beating my head against a wall?

How many more times can I say, "No thank you, what you are doing is not acceptable"?

How many more times will Ollie go to timeout for saying "damnit"? It took a full day to stop him from saying "booty" repeatedly.

Why does Clara need to learn to climb the stairs at 9 1/2 months?

Yesterday was supposed to end at midnight. Today was supposed to be better, yesterday was not supposed to continue into today.

Am I going to go insane from these children?

Moving is too stressful.

This is only a phase. This is only a phase. This is only a phase.

We went to the library this morning to play. Every time I hear a kid cry, I automatically assume Ollie did something to them. Is this mean of me? No, I have a good history to back up my assumption.

Are you allowed to cry in the library? Me, an adult, a thirty one year old woman, mom to 3 children under the age of 5.

I am missing our routine. Our life. Our friends. Our kids friends.

One day things won't be like this. This is just the small stuff, right?

The Move...in a nutshell

Happy Birthday to me
Driving in the car for 15 hours with 3 kids
Following a Uhaul towing an F-150
3 meals in the car
Watching Fourth of July fireworks from the car
Curvy roads
A small metal bridge to cross the Ohio river
An almost too small tunnel for a Uhaul towing a truck to fit through
Drive past your new house because of the lack of curb appeal
Reason we wanted to move to Ohio realized instantly with grandparents waiting in the driveway for us
Two siblings and their families and a friend to help unload the truck
10 kids 'caged' in a room playing together
10 kids, each playing in a box
100 degree weather
30 year old air conditioner
3 fans purchased
Transformer blew up
No power for 3 days
Drive to grandparents house
Fireworks in our hometown
Arrive back to new house, with electricity
Rain makes transformer explode 10 hours after arriving home 3 days without power again
One incredibly nice neighbor to let us plug refrigerator into their house by 200 feet of extension cords