I decided to mix up snack time a bit today and make semi-healthy milkshakes for the kids. I made Funky Monkey Milkshakes. (Funky Monkey was the name of a coffee drink I used to get all the time when Mr.Sloth and I were dating. Ah, memories!)
I mixed ice cream with protein powder, chocolate syrup, a banana, and peanut butter. When I called upstairs to Happy and mentioned ice cream he came bolting down the stairs. Not having had many non-sippy cups, giving Happy a glass and a straw was going to be tricky, I knew that much. Between Happy's instincts to tilt a cup up and drink and his new stage of "I want to do it myself" an epic battle began and the life lessons started flowing. I kept trying to help him hold the cup correctly but he refused and said "I do it". Finally in an attempt to save his cute little outfit from doom I took his cup and said he could only have it if I helped him.
Oh, the choices!! Did he choose the milkshake or refuse to eat with help?? It was at this point when I thought, "Geesh kid, I'm trying to help you have a yummy treat, why won't you just listen to me?"
Ah-ha! That's when it dawned on me that God is always trying to give us good things, things that will makes us happy, things we may not even have thought of before, but in my, er, our stubbornness we try and do everything ourselves and end up making a mess of things.
Happy finally resorted me helping him and once he complied and figured out the basics I let him do it himself. A few minutes later, much to my surprise, Happy looked at me and said, "You do it?". He wanted me to help him again. He realized that when, "Mommy hold the cup, I get more milkshake faster. "
Life lessons are exhausting. I should let God put me down for a nap.
The Sloths
Lazywife, Mr. Sloth, Demand, Prophet, Rooster, and King
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Comings and Goings
We're moving! Most of you know, but some may not. One day I was preparing to live in our townhome another year and a few days later we put an offer in on a house. It feels as crazy as it sounds. Not only are we moving, but we're moving in 5 weeks and we still have to find a renter for this place. This past week has been in sane with the realization that the Sloths will finally get a bigger home, but with Holy Week here, life is beyond crazy.
So if you don't hear from me in the next month, I'm cleaning, packing, painting, organizing, and of course I'm still mothering, nursing, wifeing, and above all else, praying.
Since we have to put our house up for rent I had to get the place clean enough for pictures, wanna see? Looks can be deceiving, in many of the pictures the mess is just out of screen. The kitchen is really that clean though. Mr. Sloth and I have been marveling at it since yesterday afternoon. So much so, we refuse to use it anymore. You can't really tell how clean the laundry room is but we could barely move in there so Mr. Sloth was pleasantly surprised when he came home for lunch today.
When Pax wakes up from his nap I'll work on our room next, but I may have pictures of that somewhere already.
TTFN
So if you don't hear from me in the next month, I'm cleaning, packing, painting, organizing, and of course I'm still mothering, nursing, wifeing, and above all else, praying.
Since we have to put our house up for rent I had to get the place clean enough for pictures, wanna see? Looks can be deceiving, in many of the pictures the mess is just out of screen. The kitchen is really that clean though. Mr. Sloth and I have been marveling at it since yesterday afternoon. So much so, we refuse to use it anymore. You can't really tell how clean the laundry room is but we could barely move in there so Mr. Sloth was pleasantly surprised when he came home for lunch today.
When Pax wakes up from his nap I'll work on our room next, but I may have pictures of that somewhere already.
TTFN
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Things Not to Do
In case you were wondering, here's a list of things you can't do or else you wake the children.
If Happy and/or Demand are sleeping you cannot....
open the garage door
open or close the dryer
start the wash/dryer
turn the shower off/on
flush the upstairs toilet
clean the kitchen
clean the playroom
If Pax is sleeping you cannot....
go in our room for any reason
lay your head on a pillow
open the front door
have the TV above the volume level 20
play in the playroom
And let's not talk about door bells. Who in the world uses a door bell anymore?!
So in case you're wondering as far as activities for when after the children are asleep we are reduced to watching tv (quietly) eating and drinking (provided not too much noise is made preparing) doing things on the internet, and reading. That's it! Heaven forbid we try and clean something.
Grrr!
If Happy and/or Demand are sleeping you cannot....
open the garage door
open or close the dryer
start the wash/dryer
turn the shower off/on
flush the upstairs toilet
clean the kitchen
clean the playroom
If Pax is sleeping you cannot....
go in our room for any reason
lay your head on a pillow
open the front door
have the TV above the volume level 20
play in the playroom
And let's not talk about door bells. Who in the world uses a door bell anymore?!
So in case you're wondering as far as activities for when after the children are asleep we are reduced to watching tv (quietly) eating and drinking (provided not too much noise is made preparing) doing things on the internet, and reading. That's it! Heaven forbid we try and clean something.
Grrr!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Eat.....Pray, Fast, Give
Nope not the next hit on Oprah's (cough, cough, pOprah's book list), it's just that time of year.
I love our homeschool group, there's no commitment, no fees, nothing is required. That said I felt guilty that I hadn't organized any field trip, gathering, or class in the year an half I'd been a part of the group. Even though Demand is only four we still go to a number of events each month almost one every week, and some weeks more than that. So I wanted to give back. Twice I've had ideas and then someone else beat me to it but finally I had my turn. I organized a Mardi Gras Party! Not only did I think it would be fun way to usher in Lent but I didn't know much about the history of Mardi Gras and wanted to learn about it myself. That I did. It was so much fun and I learned so much and shared what I learned with others. Turns out I wasn' t the only one who didn't know much about this Catholic Tradition.
For the party I ordered necklaces, masks and mask decorations from Oriental Trading. I made and printed up some posters explaining the history of Mardi Gras and some of the traditions. I also printed out some word finds and vocab pages to share with everyone. I made "King Cake" and beignets and (also from Oriental Trading) I bought Lenten cross craft kits as parting gifts. Everyone one to bring a yummy dish to pass. It was so much fun! My friend was willing to have it at her house and I'm glad she did, there ended up being 24 children there! It was so much fun we'll definitely be doing it again next year.
While Demand was at Good Shepard I started setting up our Lenten wall. Demand burst through the door so excited to tell me all about Lent! How appropriate. We spent the rest of the afteroon talking about Lent and what our Lenten wall means. The kids and I had a fun rest of the day eating and dancing with our masks and necklaces as I found some "New Orleans" music online.
As for the Lenten wall, as you'll see in the pictures, I have "Pray, Fast,Give" on the wall. (I got the idea from Shower of Roses.) Under each category I have what we are doing or giving up. Normally people don't put their Lenten resolutions in writing on their dining room wall, but then again we are dealing with children, normal people also don't yell "I'm pooping. I'm pooping twice. I think it was the lunch. I think it was the yogurt", from an open bathroom door.
Back to Lent...
Since the children are young I only picked one small thing for them to give up. (TV on Fridays). This year we are going to focus most of our energy on giving and praying. As long as we hit all three categories I think we're doing well. Demand and Happy love filling up the Rice Bowl with money. Ahem, actually Demand loves it, Happy loves to put two coins in the rice bowl and three coins in his piggy bank. That's the spirit! Both children love putting one pantry item in a grocery bag each day and they get to check it off the "40 cans/40 days" chart. Demand is also helping me with "40 bags/ 40 days". She has already chosen one of her toys to give away all on her own....then she picked one of Happy's toys. Demand also has a "Lenten Path" chart where she gets to color a square each day. It's a very important part of her day.
Ash Wednesday went well. Demand and I went to morning Mass together. She was so excited to see the church purple and to actually get something (ashes) in line. Even though I've been exempt for six years now due to pregnancy or nursing (and on a technicality low blood sugar) it always feels like cheating. Three-hundred and sixty-four days of the year I don't eat breakfast. Never. In fact if I do my metabolism gets to high to fast and I can't keep up and then I get a migraine mid day. Blah! No fun! So usually just have coffee in the morning and then start snacking around 10am. But Ash Wednesday I not only woke up hungry, I woke up BECAUSE I was hungry. My blood sugar was plummeting and fast. ( I think I may have gotten carried away with my first Mardi Gras) So now I HAD to eat breakfast. I thought I would see what just a tall glass of milk would do, but we were out of milk so I had to drink chocolate milk that I had bought for Mardi Gras. What a way to start Lent, eh? The rest the day went more according to planned, although Mr. Sloth made yet again fantastic bread to go with dinner. Too good actually, I felt a little guilty. It went fabulously with the minestrone soup I made though.
So, that's our Lent so far! I love Lent, but I love purging things toys, clothing, the soul, it's all good. Click on the pictures to view pictures from the party and lent. The first set was taken by a friend with a nice camera at the party. (That first picture is not Demand)
I love our homeschool group, there's no commitment, no fees, nothing is required. That said I felt guilty that I hadn't organized any field trip, gathering, or class in the year an half I'd been a part of the group. Even though Demand is only four we still go to a number of events each month almost one every week, and some weeks more than that. So I wanted to give back. Twice I've had ideas and then someone else beat me to it but finally I had my turn. I organized a Mardi Gras Party! Not only did I think it would be fun way to usher in Lent but I didn't know much about the history of Mardi Gras and wanted to learn about it myself. That I did. It was so much fun and I learned so much and shared what I learned with others. Turns out I wasn' t the only one who didn't know much about this Catholic Tradition.
For the party I ordered necklaces, masks and mask decorations from Oriental Trading. I made and printed up some posters explaining the history of Mardi Gras and some of the traditions. I also printed out some word finds and vocab pages to share with everyone. I made "King Cake" and beignets and (also from Oriental Trading) I bought Lenten cross craft kits as parting gifts. Everyone one to bring a yummy dish to pass. It was so much fun! My friend was willing to have it at her house and I'm glad she did, there ended up being 24 children there! It was so much fun we'll definitely be doing it again next year.
While Demand was at Good Shepard I started setting up our Lenten wall. Demand burst through the door so excited to tell me all about Lent! How appropriate. We spent the rest of the afteroon talking about Lent and what our Lenten wall means. The kids and I had a fun rest of the day eating and dancing with our masks and necklaces as I found some "New Orleans" music online.
As for the Lenten wall, as you'll see in the pictures, I have "Pray, Fast,Give" on the wall. (I got the idea from Shower of Roses.) Under each category I have what we are doing or giving up. Normally people don't put their Lenten resolutions in writing on their dining room wall, but then again we are dealing with children, normal people also don't yell "I'm pooping. I'm pooping twice. I think it was the lunch. I think it was the yogurt", from an open bathroom door.
Back to Lent...
Since the children are young I only picked one small thing for them to give up. (TV on Fridays). This year we are going to focus most of our energy on giving and praying. As long as we hit all three categories I think we're doing well. Demand and Happy love filling up the Rice Bowl with money. Ahem, actually Demand loves it, Happy loves to put two coins in the rice bowl and three coins in his piggy bank. That's the spirit! Both children love putting one pantry item in a grocery bag each day and they get to check it off the "40 cans/40 days" chart. Demand is also helping me with "40 bags/ 40 days". She has already chosen one of her toys to give away all on her own....then she picked one of Happy's toys. Demand also has a "Lenten Path" chart where she gets to color a square each day. It's a very important part of her day.
Ash Wednesday went well. Demand and I went to morning Mass together. She was so excited to see the church purple and to actually get something (ashes) in line. Even though I've been exempt for six years now due to pregnancy or nursing (and on a technicality low blood sugar) it always feels like cheating. Three-hundred and sixty-four days of the year I don't eat breakfast. Never. In fact if I do my metabolism gets to high to fast and I can't keep up and then I get a migraine mid day. Blah! No fun! So usually just have coffee in the morning and then start snacking around 10am. But Ash Wednesday I not only woke up hungry, I woke up BECAUSE I was hungry. My blood sugar was plummeting and fast. ( I think I may have gotten carried away with my first Mardi Gras) So now I HAD to eat breakfast. I thought I would see what just a tall glass of milk would do, but we were out of milk so I had to drink chocolate milk that I had bought for Mardi Gras. What a way to start Lent, eh? The rest the day went more according to planned, although Mr. Sloth made yet again fantastic bread to go with dinner. Too good actually, I felt a little guilty. It went fabulously with the minestrone soup I made though.
So, that's our Lent so far! I love Lent, but I love purging things toys, clothing, the soul, it's all good. Click on the pictures to view pictures from the party and lent. The first set was taken by a friend with a nice camera at the party. (That first picture is not Demand)
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Mardi Gras Party 2011
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Monday, March 7, 2011
All the hungry ladies out there.....
are jealous! Mr. Sloth made the perfect dinner on Sunday. I surprised him this week and bought him French baguette pans with the left over Amazon money from Christmas. So he just had to make French bread....
It was soft and fluffy and oh, so perfect.
He also wanted to make steak (you know to go with the bottle of red wine we had) and loaded baked potatoes. Well non of the potatoes were big enough for baking so after frying up lovely amounts of bacon he slow fried the potatoes in he new (from Christmas) iron skillet for two hours then topped them with cheese, sour cream, green onions, and scallions.
My only contribution was the asparagus, which too was cooked perfectly. (Place in boiling water for one minute) It was the best dinner. Mr. Sloth has now vowed to never cook again and risk failing. This all after Mr. Sloth made deep dish, Pizza Hut style pizza that was out of this world on Saturday. I think I got myself a keeper.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
What happend?
I remember waking up this morning, grabbing coffee, showering, and getting "Saturday Casual" dressed and the next thing I knew it was 7pm and I was falling asleep putting Pax to bed.
Let's retrace my steps...Let's see, after I drank my coffee I think I wandered around the house cleaning random things until about 9am. Then I put Pax down for a nap and resumed random cleaning until Mr. Sloth took Demand and Happy off to ballet, well Demand went to ballet, but you get the idea.
Instead of cleaning the house like I probably should have been doing I started looking for things to either get rid of or pack. Pax woke up and helped me until the 'fam' came back home. I think food was eaten at this point but I can't really recall. Next came naptime. Happy and Mr. Sloth slept while Demand followed me around and Pax, hmm, not sure what he was up to, eventually he napped too. In the morning I worked on purging my closet of somethings and packing some toys away while the kiddos weren't around. In the afteroon I worked on the pantry. When Mr. Sloth woke up I was purging our file cabinet of unneeded instruction manuals. I sat there for an uncalculated amount of time.
Mr. Sloth started to have 'issues' making deep dish pizza for dinner.First he made the dough wrong...twice. Already frustrated he asked me where my cake pans were (for the deep dish pizza), "Er.....umm, well a friend borrowed them yesterday." Seeing his frustration I offered to go get them. When I returned, I started back in on the file cabinet when it dawned on me that I didn't notice mozarella cheese in the groceries Mr.Sloth had picked up. After inquiring about this, my concerns were confirmed at the dropping of Mr. Sloth's head in frustration. Again, seeing his heartbreak (and wanting dinner later) I offered to take Demand and Pax (who was now awake) to Wal-Mart to pick up cheese and a few other items I'd been meaning to get there.
We returned home and I did more of the same until I heard the magical words "Dinner's ready". Mmmm! Mr. Sloth made delicious 'pizza hut' style deep dish pizza. Fantastic as always, Mr. Sloth! I worked on the kitchen for a bit while Mr. Sloth played guitar for the kids and then it was time for bed.
Weird day. Very weird. Speaking of weird, here's a bizzare picture of Demand I took a few weeks ago. Came around the corner to find her dancing like this. I just had to laugh...and take a picture. She was laughing too, you just can't see.
What do you think, cabin fever?
Let's retrace my steps...Let's see, after I drank my coffee I think I wandered around the house cleaning random things until about 9am. Then I put Pax down for a nap and resumed random cleaning until Mr. Sloth took Demand and Happy off to ballet, well Demand went to ballet, but you get the idea.
Instead of cleaning the house like I probably should have been doing I started looking for things to either get rid of or pack. Pax woke up and helped me until the 'fam' came back home. I think food was eaten at this point but I can't really recall. Next came naptime. Happy and Mr. Sloth slept while Demand followed me around and Pax, hmm, not sure what he was up to, eventually he napped too. In the morning I worked on purging my closet of somethings and packing some toys away while the kiddos weren't around. In the afteroon I worked on the pantry. When Mr. Sloth woke up I was purging our file cabinet of unneeded instruction manuals. I sat there for an uncalculated amount of time.
Mr. Sloth started to have 'issues' making deep dish pizza for dinner.First he made the dough wrong...twice. Already frustrated he asked me where my cake pans were (for the deep dish pizza), "Er.....umm, well a friend borrowed them yesterday." Seeing his frustration I offered to go get them. When I returned, I started back in on the file cabinet when it dawned on me that I didn't notice mozarella cheese in the groceries Mr.Sloth had picked up. After inquiring about this, my concerns were confirmed at the dropping of Mr. Sloth's head in frustration. Again, seeing his heartbreak (and wanting dinner later) I offered to take Demand and Pax (who was now awake) to Wal-Mart to pick up cheese and a few other items I'd been meaning to get there.
We returned home and I did more of the same until I heard the magical words "Dinner's ready". Mmmm! Mr. Sloth made delicious 'pizza hut' style deep dish pizza. Fantastic as always, Mr. Sloth! I worked on the kitchen for a bit while Mr. Sloth played guitar for the kids and then it was time for bed.
Weird day. Very weird. Speaking of weird, here's a bizzare picture of Demand I took a few weeks ago. Came around the corner to find her dancing like this. I just had to laugh...and take a picture. She was laughing too, you just can't see.
What do you think, cabin fever?
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Planning Progress
Our plans have come along pretty well since my last post.
Mardi Gras: I'm almost done gathering everything together. Last night while Mr. Sloth was out I finshed the posters I was making with information about the history of Mardi Gras. At least I thought I finished. I forgot about a poster for "King Cake" and I want to laminate the posters to use for next year as well. They were a lot of work I don't want it to go to waste only to do it again next year.
St. Joseph's altar: Instead of scrambling to put together an altar on March 18th I decided to slowly put one together right up to the feast day. So far we have a statue of St. Joseph and yester day Demand and I bought flowers for the altar (yellow, green, and then some white lilies). Today Demand asked if we could make handprint lilies for the altar. How could I say no? Before tonight is over I'd like to print out a short prayer to St. Joseph to hang in my shower. (Yep, I have prayers in my shower.)
St Patrick's Day/Week: I'm having a few homeschooling friends over on the actual day for a mini-party. So far for the menu/events I've planned making mint-ice cream in our ice cream maker and then making Trinity Shamrock crafts that I ordered for from Oriental Trading. I'll plan more after Mardi Gras. I'm thinking of having the kids make sacrifice beads as well or maybe this pipe cleaner rosary.
Lent: While I was making posters for Mardi Gras I worked on posters for Lent. I made three posters "Pray", "Give", and "Fast" and below each will be filled in with activities, etc. I've decided to start 40 bags, 40 days early that I am done by Palm Sunday and can then do spring cleaning (got that idea, yet again, from Shower of Roses) I found another great idea for kids during Lent. Catholic Icing suggest the child pick a toy and put it in a box for Lent. It's a great idea, but I don't want choose too much for Demand this year, plus we're already packing things up for a possible move. Maybe next year.
Packing: The other night I finished boxing up 20 boxes, then loaded them in the van. (and the van was loaded), stopped to get gas. (Thank you 'state' for passing a law that you had to stand next to the pump while filling your gas. FAREEEZING!) Then I took them to Obscure's home where he helped me unload them. I hope to do this all over again later this week. I have mixed feelings about it since it's exhausting work to do after a long day with the kids, but it feels nice to have things out of the house.
School: Demand and I had a great day of home schooling and it was quite unplanned. Quite organic actually. I was planning on napping but when Pax had his own ideas I decided we would get some school work done while he played on the floor. Demand has only four books left before she can buy this book, and only one of the four books is completely new to her. She's working to finish by Friday. After reading I had her practice her oral presentation for later this month while I changed Pax's diaper. She is going to recite the "Hail Mary" and "Our Father" prayers. I picked something she already had memorized so she could work more on her posture and volume this time, there's still the nerves issue too. After Pax was back asleep she and I headed downstairs and made hand print lilies for St. Joseph. Next she worked on her letters online for a good hour while I cleaned the kitchen. Well, worked on cleaning the kitchen. Now she is alternating between entertaining Pax and writing her letters. Here's a tip by the way, if you have a chalkboard a great way to entertain your children is to give them water and paintbrushes and let them go to town. Happy and Demand worked on their letters for a good half an hour the other day doing that. Anyway, I didn't plan on doing much homeschooling today but we sure accomplished a lot.
Life: Today with Mr. Sloth having to leave for work "early" I couldn't go to Mass....by myself. Since it was a later Mass and the kids were up and ready I did it, I braved Mass by myself with all the kiddos. I prepared for the absolute worst (which involved me nursing Pax running down the aisle chasing Happy but not quite fast enough too catch him) but things went really well. We started in the Cry room because, who are kidding? Plus it was the all-school Mass and I didn't want us distracting the school kids. It was actually a great way to explain parts of the Mass and really encourage their responses. Happy worked on being quite and Demand worked on paying attention. Pax naturally wanted to nurse just before Communioin which I would have skipped but Happy and Demand know the routine and were already trying to break out of the room, so after a quick snack I braved bringing all three kiddos up to Communion. Happy was such a good boy! He held Demand's hand the entire walk up. It was quite endearing actually. He of course has no concept of waiting in line, but Demand sure does. She kept dragging him back to us. It's a good thing He held Demand's hand because I need both hands for Pax. He's a grabber, I mean a serious grabber. Never seen a kid like him and grabby babies and Communion.....let's not go there.
Alright I have twenty minutes to purge my fridge and gather a 'left overs' dinner or I like to call them "Penitential Meals". Gotta go!
Mardi Gras: I'm almost done gathering everything together. Last night while Mr. Sloth was out I finshed the posters I was making with information about the history of Mardi Gras. At least I thought I finished. I forgot about a poster for "King Cake" and I want to laminate the posters to use for next year as well. They were a lot of work I don't want it to go to waste only to do it again next year.
St. Joseph's altar: Instead of scrambling to put together an altar on March 18th I decided to slowly put one together right up to the feast day. So far we have a statue of St. Joseph and yester day Demand and I bought flowers for the altar (yellow, green, and then some white lilies). Today Demand asked if we could make handprint lilies for the altar. How could I say no? Before tonight is over I'd like to print out a short prayer to St. Joseph to hang in my shower. (Yep, I have prayers in my shower.)
St Patrick's Day/Week: I'm having a few homeschooling friends over on the actual day for a mini-party. So far for the menu/events I've planned making mint-ice cream in our ice cream maker and then making Trinity Shamrock crafts that I ordered for from Oriental Trading. I'll plan more after Mardi Gras. I'm thinking of having the kids make sacrifice beads as well or maybe this pipe cleaner rosary.
Lent: While I was making posters for Mardi Gras I worked on posters for Lent. I made three posters "Pray", "Give", and "Fast" and below each will be filled in with activities, etc. I've decided to start 40 bags, 40 days early that I am done by Palm Sunday and can then do spring cleaning (got that idea, yet again, from Shower of Roses) I found another great idea for kids during Lent. Catholic Icing suggest the child pick a toy and put it in a box for Lent. It's a great idea, but I don't want choose too much for Demand this year, plus we're already packing things up for a possible move. Maybe next year.
Packing: The other night I finished boxing up 20 boxes, then loaded them in the van. (and the van was loaded), stopped to get gas. (Thank you 'state' for passing a law that you had to stand next to the pump while filling your gas. FAREEEZING!) Then I took them to Obscure's home where he helped me unload them. I hope to do this all over again later this week. I have mixed feelings about it since it's exhausting work to do after a long day with the kids, but it feels nice to have things out of the house.
School: Demand and I had a great day of home schooling and it was quite unplanned. Quite organic actually. I was planning on napping but when Pax had his own ideas I decided we would get some school work done while he played on the floor. Demand has only four books left before she can buy this book, and only one of the four books is completely new to her. She's working to finish by Friday. After reading I had her practice her oral presentation for later this month while I changed Pax's diaper. She is going to recite the "Hail Mary" and "Our Father" prayers. I picked something she already had memorized so she could work more on her posture and volume this time, there's still the nerves issue too. After Pax was back asleep she and I headed downstairs and made hand print lilies for St. Joseph. Next she worked on her letters online for a good hour while I cleaned the kitchen. Well, worked on cleaning the kitchen. Now she is alternating between entertaining Pax and writing her letters. Here's a tip by the way, if you have a chalkboard a great way to entertain your children is to give them water and paintbrushes and let them go to town. Happy and Demand worked on their letters for a good half an hour the other day doing that. Anyway, I didn't plan on doing much homeschooling today but we sure accomplished a lot.
Life: Today with Mr. Sloth having to leave for work "early" I couldn't go to Mass....by myself. Since it was a later Mass and the kids were up and ready I did it, I braved Mass by myself with all the kiddos. I prepared for the absolute worst (which involved me nursing Pax running down the aisle chasing Happy but not quite fast enough too catch him) but things went really well. We started in the Cry room because, who are kidding? Plus it was the all-school Mass and I didn't want us distracting the school kids. It was actually a great way to explain parts of the Mass and really encourage their responses. Happy worked on being quite and Demand worked on paying attention. Pax naturally wanted to nurse just before Communioin which I would have skipped but Happy and Demand know the routine and were already trying to break out of the room, so after a quick snack I braved bringing all three kiddos up to Communion. Happy was such a good boy! He held Demand's hand the entire walk up. It was quite endearing actually. He of course has no concept of waiting in line, but Demand sure does. She kept dragging him back to us. It's a good thing He held Demand's hand because I need both hands for Pax. He's a grabber, I mean a serious grabber. Never seen a kid like him and grabby babies and Communion.....let's not go there.
Alright I have twenty minutes to purge my fridge and gather a 'left overs' dinner or I like to call them "Penitential Meals". Gotta go!
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