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It took over 30days, two 10 hour plane rides, two half hour plane rides, dozens of trains, countless metro rides and bus rides, two six hour car rides,a hand full of taxi rides, a seven hour time difference, and three days of jet-lag, but Demand is finally taking a nap.

Totally worth it.

Saturday night around 7pm Mr. Sloth and I walked into our home after about six weeks and declared to ourselves, "We have a beautiful home".

That comment may lead you to believe we didn't have a great trip, but that's not true. We had a wonderful trip. We had a lot of fun, learned a lot and spent exactly enough time away. No matter how much I love to travel, home is home. It's always nice to get back into routines and after living 4 (sometimes 5) people to one room for six weeks a 1,500 square foot home doesn't look so bad.

And when the CLEANEST place your baby can crawl is the floor of a Paris Hotel room our living room carpet doesn't look too bad either.

I can bath my kids at night if I want to, as opposed to thinking up some contraption or device to bath them in a shower. I know where our next meal is coming from even if it is processed or deep fried. I don't have to have five people showered, dressed with bags packed and heading towards a metro before we eat breakfast or find coffee.

I don't have to pay to use a toilet or change a diaper. Although if "I" got paid to use the toilet or change a diaper I would be rather wealthy by now.


Again, I'm not complaining about our trip I've just increased my gratitude for the things of home be them fine or ordinary. Unfortunately that is where I leave you now. Wondering how our trip actually went. By and "Early-Thanksgiving Week Miracle" both children are sleeping so it is my once chance to get anything done around the house. I shall now gladly fold CLEAN laundry that hasn't been worn five days in a row and I will wash dishes that I cooked on and my family ate on.

God, Bless America and thank you for my home!

This is my...

Before I forget and posterity loses out on the memory....


The other day Happy held a cheerio with both hands over his head, looked at, and then ate it.


"Take this all of you and eat it. This is my cheerio."


Just had to share.

Even more pictures....

Man I am ontop of things today! First a clean house, now three posts!!

First picture Demand is showing off the cute outfit she picked out that day. The next two pictures are a rare find. Demand fell asleep ON OUR LIVING ROOM FLOOR. Never, ever EVER has such a thing happend around here. Happy? Yes. Demand. NO! She was sick of course, guess that's what it takes. The last picture is of our SECOND snow fall of the year. Thankfully everything has melted and it looks like Autumn around her again. In the last picture note my snow covered tomato plant in the center.


Ok, I should go pack for our big trip!

 

 

 

 

More fall pics

Here are a few more pictures. The first on is of Demand at the park, always coy for the camera. The next picture is strictly for my mother, she always wants to know how I decorate for seasons. Here are the placemats and center piece I made this fall. The next picture Demand....demanded. She posed and said, "Take our picture,Momma!". The last picture is actually of Happy attacking Demand. It was a full blown attack and absolutely hilarious.

Enjoy! More pictures to come if the kids don't wake up from their naps! (Yes they are BOTH sleeping)

 

 

 

 

Fall with the Sloths

Here are some "recent" photos of Happy and Demand.

The first one is of Happy lounging in his highchair. I thought it was hilarious. The rest are of the kids at the park, it turned out to be the ONE day of fall we had. Fun day!

 

 

 

 

My Saturday

Today was my morning off. My morning off is slightly different than Mr. Sloths. When I woke up it was only Happy and I in bed. The little guy has gotten used to nursing privileges this week as he was teething so he's out of the habit of sleeping through the night. Just as he was waking up Mr. Sloth was getting in the shower which of course meant I was in charge of the kiddos. (So much for sleeping in on my morning off). Within the hour Mr. Sloth had the kids dressed, and on their way to grandmas. After brewing a pot of coffee and wishing my mother a happy birthday I headed for a nice long bath. I took my sweet old time getting ready for the day and then did various tasks around the house I find hard to do with kids around. (They always seem to want attention.) I worked on Demand's Europe scrapbook, read, cleaned, taped numerous pages of books that Demand had tore and fixed a broken wooden rosary....twice.

I had missed the phone call from Mr. Sloth telling me that Demands stomach bug hadn't gone away and she had thrown up all over his parents couch, and himself. He had called on his way to Target to buy some new clothes (yes it was that bad) For the last 48 hours Demand has seemed fine, but has three times just...thrown up. Her best friend has the same mystery disease right now. When Mr. Sloth got home he came in to tell me both kids were asleep in the car so I jumped in and we drove around for a bit so they could both get really good naps in.

Afterwards, Mr. Sloth and I had a quick bite to eat and then I played with the kids and did housework while Mr. Sloth grabbed some ingredient for dinner. He came home just in time for me to head to confession. Since we have to split Mass because we don't want to bring Demand I was heading to Confession AND Mass. It wasn't until Mass had started that I realized I was going to be gone a whole two hours. Yikes! I came home and helped Mr. Sloth put the kids to bed. Neither child was happy about the situation so as Mr. Sloth finally started to cook our dinner we could hear both children screaming. Very pleasant. We were having dinner late because Demand keeps asking for food but we're only letting her eat the BRAT diet and we didn't want to tease her with food. Happy ate his dinner separately.

Hopefully we're done with the Sloths being sick soon as we fly next week!! Oh, and did I mention that it snowed today???

Good Night

Today was a long day. Neither children took an afternoon nap which ended up sending me over the edge. I finally called Mr. Sloth at 4pm and asked him to come home a bit early as I was in no condition to watch the children. He was scheduled to head to his parents to hang out with his dad at 5pm.

One lighthearted moment during the day was when Demand announced to me that she had to use the restroom, she then declared, "Poop, you need to get out! Right Momma?"

Ummm.....right!

I'm also in peek Sports-widow form. This was the third night in a row of "Big Games" and of course all of my Sundays are gone from now until January. Mr. Sloth and I have joked about his baseball team heading to the world series just in time for us to fly to Europe. Sorry Mr. Sloth. To be really ironic it will be a blizzard too.

I don't feel like writing anymore. Good night.