9/25/06
Wow, these last few days have been busy!
Friday afternoon I received an email from the girls dad, asking about taking Alyssa to the movies the next day, possibly around noon. How fun for her! I mentioned it to her and she was quite excited. I have been quite exhausted lately come the evenings, so chose not to go to dance that night. I haven’t been do dance in a while now, I sure miss it.
Saturday came around, and finally a beautiful day!!! I taught a riding lesson in the morning, and since it was a bit after 11am I piled the kids back into the van and headed out to pick up a new vacuum and steam cleaner I had found on craigs list. $80 for the two, and basically brand new. I was THRILLED!!! Only thing? Had to be picked up before 1pm, so I was hustling my backside. I steam cleaned part of my carpets last night and am going to do the rest tonight if possible. It’s a bit of a challenge to time the cleaning with the kids along with when no more loud noise is suppose to happen (10pm).
Alyssa enjoyed her time with her dad she said, and arrived back full of excitement for movie night over at her friends house. Movie night was fun – I am loving getting together to chatter girl talk while the kids play. We switched it from Sunday night to Saturday night so it wasn’t a school night as well as no restrictions on time. I wondered back to my place at 3am!!! LOL The kids all fell asleep pretty quickly 😛
Sunday morning came quickly. I got the kids fed, horses fed, and headed down to work with a horse on the team. That went well. I finished off by going into another pasture to see Zoe (my princess horse on the team), and ended up being double barrelled by another horse, twice! I was knocked hard to the ground and left barely able to breath. I was fine after a bit, but was sore – very sore. I was kicked twice, leaving three marks…. on my arm (lovely bruise today), on my leg, and on the left side of my back. Ouch!
Today is going great. Jonah is off to his first day of school 🙂 After dropping both the kids off I headed home, pushing the double stroller with Katherine and Amandine in it. I went to turn towards home, and Katherine started whining about how she didn’t want to go home yet, so I turned the opposite direction and walked a near two mile loop back to the house. Amandine eventually fell asleep, early for her! And Katherine enjoyed reaching her bare feet out to opposite sides and feeling the wet bushes tickle her feet. When we reached a brick type wall, she reached out and let her hands glide across as we passed. I slowed down so she could feel it 🙂 Katherine still whined when we got home, but I was quite tired. I sat in front of her and went to kiss her hand, asking what it said when it touched the wall. Kissed her foot and what it said when it touched the wet bush, and did this to both hands and feet – she loves this 🙂 She walked up the stairs, and I carried the touble stroller up. Placed that in the livingroom for Amandine to continue sleeping and went to lay down with Katherine who fell asleep herself. I woke up 90 min later to the tiny movement of a baby just barely waking up…. gotta love mama instincts. It was SO NICE to sleep!
I left Katherine sleeping, she woke up at 1pm. Wow, THREE HOURS. I’m glad she got a nice nap in 🙂
Katherine loved the walk home – so long as the weather stays decent, I’m going to attempt to walk back ever morning from the school that way. It was quite enjoyable for all of us. Katherine’s favorite part were the ducks she got to see next to a pond that had a water fountain 🙂