Busy Bees

I have been slack about my blogging recently. We have been so busy around the house here lately. Not to mention that I am trying to get on a new schedule. I am by far the night owl of our family. I will often stay up into the wee hours of the morning and not wake up until around 9 am. This works for my kids because they are late sleepers too. However my new goal is to be in the bed by 11:30 (after the nightly news) and awake by 6 am. I have discovered the beauty of early morning. If I wake up early I can get so much accomplished before my gang awakes. This allows me the rest of the day to focus on what is most important...my duties as wife and mother. Not to mention it is soooooooo much easier to work outside before all three kids wake up and it is cooler :)

I keep saying that I am going to post pics of our garden. I am as soon as I remember to buy batteries for the camera. We now have baby squash on our vines which should be ready to harvest in a couple of days! I will definitely have plenty of beans, okra and tomatoes. That is if the deer don't eat them first. I also have some banana peppers that I have already picked. So if anyone knows a good recipe that has banana peppers in it I would love to try it out.

Well here it is almost my new bedtime. Until later.......

One of THOSE Days

Okay so the last two days have been THOSE days. You Mommies know the kind. The days when your kids just decide to see how far they can go. Well Coy and Job have figured out that the best time to follow through with "planned attacks" is while I am nursing. They know that feeding Elise is a time that I am a little preoccupied to say the least. Yesterday I was locked out of my house while our ninety pound German Shepherd was welcomed inside and strategically attacked with water guns. The cake topper was when the boys decided to move some of their toys from the playroom to the yard. Of course the best way to do this is out the window! While Coy is positioned in the front lawn, Job strategically tosses unwanted items out our second story playroom window. However to do this they made a makeshift ladder from chair to the top of the Bob the Builder workbench and used various "tools" to slit the window screening. When I heard Job say, "Wow the hole is almost big enough that I can get out!" I knew I better check things out. Needless to say I am glad that I infiltrated the plan before one of them became a trajectory! As both of them were sitting in time out and I am trying to hide the grin on my face, I found a positive side. Don't get me wrong I realize the danger related to their actions. It is just that I realized they were only following the direction I had given them which was to clean the playroom and work together. I now know to be more specific in my task management! Oh the lessons my children teach me daily....