Living the Good Life

Living the Good Life

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Fun in the Snow!!

Our first snow slush! Let's just say red juice all over!!One piece of advice - check the snow first to be sure that there are no sticks in it!!

St. Nick Candy!!The Quad Kids Christmas Party - we had a great time!


SNOW DAY
Up at 6:10 with both kids COST - loss of sleep
Outside for 1 hour right away in P.J.s COST - cold
Play Dough in the snow boots worn inside the house COST - one good vacuum job!
Baking about 70 cut out cookies COST - too much time!!
A FEW MINOR INJURIES
Jersey fell off the stool and ended up with a bloody mouth COST - tears
I zipped Jersey's belly skin in her p.j.'s by accident COST - more tears
Outside again for another 30 minutes to play COST - 2 freezing kids and one freezing mom
Lunch at 11:30 COST - a trip to the grocery store
Finally one kid down for a nap COST - still one very tired mom

Staying home with my kids for a snow day........................................ PRICELESS


Some may paint a pretty picture of trying to be a super mom - I paint an honest one!!!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

JINGLE BELLS!!

We decided to purchase an artificial tree this year! Let's just say that this tree is REALLY huge!! I love it and so do the kids.
Jason had to pull out the Little Giant ladder to put it together and to decorate it! It was at that time that he found 3 more artificial trees in our basement. I think that we will only put out 2 this year (not including all of the little ones that are randomly placed throughout the house).

Scout will pose everywhere - Jersey not so much!




Making sure the deer work before putting them outside!

Hanging with the Botsford's!!!

We all love crawling on Cal and wrestling with Ty and Cal.

We can't wait until Christmas (and now I need to stop typing b/c I am getting kicked so hard by the baby that the computer is moving!!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Basketball

Scout and Ramsey LOVE playing basketball every Wednesday! How fun that we get to go back to the "Sussex Teen Center" to watch them both! I will tell you that the 45 minutes goes really fast! We hope that Ramsey had fun tonight - Scout was home sick AGAIN today so we couldn't go :(


Jersey has been fun lately as well. She is learning more words and has been doing more sassy things (looking out of the corner of her eyes, rolling her eyes at us, hitting anyone of us and running as fast as she can to get away). The list goes on and on! The big two year old party comes December 13th! WOW how fast times goes.


She is what I will call OFFICIALLY potty trained! She has been in underwear during the day the past 2 months and has only had minimal accidents! This week I have sent her to bed in underwear and she has been good to go (now watch I jinked myself!) Someone is looking out for me with the new baby coming in February!

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Having Fun at Uncle Johnny's House

We have spent the past two days playing at Uncle Johnny's house. Now that he has a bigger front porch than we do and he has leaves, apparently our house is not good enough! We had fun eating our morning snack on the porch (Daddy was studying and we are not sure where Uncle Johnny was!) All Jersey says now is "Donny - weaves - Donny - weaves."

About Me

I am going into my 9th year of teaching and have taught 3rd, 4th, and most currently 5th grade. I completed my Masters Degree from Cardinal Stritch University in Reading/Langauge Arts earning my Reading Specialist License. I LOVE teaching and working with each child to achieve their fullest potential.