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For starters, ER is a new episode tonight. Thank goodness, as otherwise it would have been four weeks since the last new episode, and that's too dang long!
I was so beat today, just as I feared that I would be. I watched Elizabethtown from Netflix last night while making the baptismal letters, and I stopped the movie to take a shower at 1am or so. I finally crawled into bed at 3:16am, and then I got up again at 7:50 to take A.J. to school. The boys were tired too, it seems, as they were both still sound asleep at that time (and they're usually already running around). Jack was still asleep even when I got back from taking A.J., but he did wake up a few minutes later.
He and I ate some breakfast quickly, and then we got ready to leave ourselves. He's always so excited for playtime on Thursdays while I'm at the Parents at Home group. I signed him in, went to the copy room to drop off the baptismal letters, and then I walked across the street to the youth building for our meeting to start. Today's theme was "Wellness Day." We had devotions with music and then tips on walking, and then we finally set out for our walk. We walked all over the Quail Creek area, and most of it was over some really long, really tough hills. I was so sweaty by the time we finally got back to the church an hour later! I picked Jack, and then we came home a bit early so that Philip could make it to Runza by 11am.
I took a short shower as soon as we came inside and redressed in fresh clothing. I had run the dishwasher and thawed some chicken for lunch while we were gone, so I made a quick lunch of chicken tacos for us. Afterwards, Jack snuggled in on the couch, and I laid down for a nap as well. Philip woke me up at 2:40pm, and then Jack and I left to pick A.J. up from school and head straight to their dentist appointments. Both boys were perfectly well-behaved on their own, and I stayed in the waiting room the entire time. Jack has a heriditary, tiny dent in one of his incisors, and he'll go back in June to have it sealed. It's a baby tooth, yes, but it's one he's not due to lose until he's 9-10 years old, and that's pretty far away.
We came home and grabbed our shopping list, and then the boys and I set out again. We ate an early dinner at Ruby Tuesday, and we were done by 6pm. We then went to Sears to replace Jack's jeans. He'd finally worn a hole through them in the knee today. I'd never heard of that before, but when I bought these jeans two months ago, the cashier went on for five full minutes about their clothing guarantee program, and it boils down to this: if the jeans wear out before the child outgrows them - no matter what kind of wear & tear it is - they are replaced free. So we walked in there with torn jeans, and walked back out with brand-new. Pretty cool. After that errand, we went to the commissary to pick up the items on our shopping list. It was 6:40, and I thought that the commissary closed at 7pm, so we really booked it through our short list and were done before then (though I found out that they don't close until 8pm). I put some gas in the car on the way back. We came home, unloaded the groceries, I started a new load of bedding in the washer, and we all went outside to play until just a few minutes ago.
The boys are in the tub now, and I'm going to go make sure everything is ready for bed. I'm sure we'll all sleep well tonight, but I bet I crash before I get fully under the covers myself. ;-)
I was so beat today, just as I feared that I would be. I watched Elizabethtown from Netflix last night while making the baptismal letters, and I stopped the movie to take a shower at 1am or so. I finally crawled into bed at 3:16am, and then I got up again at 7:50 to take A.J. to school. The boys were tired too, it seems, as they were both still sound asleep at that time (and they're usually already running around). Jack was still asleep even when I got back from taking A.J., but he did wake up a few minutes later.
He and I ate some breakfast quickly, and then we got ready to leave ourselves. He's always so excited for playtime on Thursdays while I'm at the Parents at Home group. I signed him in, went to the copy room to drop off the baptismal letters, and then I walked across the street to the youth building for our meeting to start. Today's theme was "Wellness Day." We had devotions with music and then tips on walking, and then we finally set out for our walk. We walked all over the Quail Creek area, and most of it was over some really long, really tough hills. I was so sweaty by the time we finally got back to the church an hour later! I picked Jack, and then we came home a bit early so that Philip could make it to Runza by 11am.
I took a short shower as soon as we came inside and redressed in fresh clothing. I had run the dishwasher and thawed some chicken for lunch while we were gone, so I made a quick lunch of chicken tacos for us. Afterwards, Jack snuggled in on the couch, and I laid down for a nap as well. Philip woke me up at 2:40pm, and then Jack and I left to pick A.J. up from school and head straight to their dentist appointments. Both boys were perfectly well-behaved on their own, and I stayed in the waiting room the entire time. Jack has a heriditary, tiny dent in one of his incisors, and he'll go back in June to have it sealed. It's a baby tooth, yes, but it's one he's not due to lose until he's 9-10 years old, and that's pretty far away.
We came home and grabbed our shopping list, and then the boys and I set out again. We ate an early dinner at Ruby Tuesday, and we were done by 6pm. We then went to Sears to replace Jack's jeans. He'd finally worn a hole through them in the knee today. I'd never heard of that before, but when I bought these jeans two months ago, the cashier went on for five full minutes about their clothing guarantee program, and it boils down to this: if the jeans wear out before the child outgrows them - no matter what kind of wear & tear it is - they are replaced free. So we walked in there with torn jeans, and walked back out with brand-new. Pretty cool. After that errand, we went to the commissary to pick up the items on our shopping list. It was 6:40, and I thought that the commissary closed at 7pm, so we really booked it through our short list and were done before then (though I found out that they don't close until 8pm). I put some gas in the car on the way back. We came home, unloaded the groceries, I started a new load of bedding in the washer, and we all went outside to play until just a few minutes ago.
The boys are in the tub now, and I'm going to go make sure everything is ready for bed. I'm sure we'll all sleep well tonight, but I bet I crash before I get fully under the covers myself. ;-)
