Back from the dead, or at least the sick

For the past couple of weeks we have all taken our turn being sick~ one at a time, so as to prolong the sickness as long as possible! I have managed to document a couple of events along the way. First of all was Valentine's Day. We had a pink candle light dinner with the kids. Pink scrambled eggs, pink pancakes in the shape of hearts, pink lemonade, and of course topped off with a pink heart shaped cake. The kids thought it was great!


A couple of days later Shayden finally lost her top tooth. I say finally because it had been loose for at least three weeks. She was very concerned about it falling out while she was sleeping, so we had the same conversation at bedtime at least a dozen times about the tooth fairy still bringing her something even if she swallowed it and it not causing any problems if she did happen to swallow it while sleeping.
Then just 2 days later she lost her second top tooth (that had only been loose for a couple of days)! Her new found wealth is sure burning a hole in her pocket!
Here are the kids in their Valentine pj's from great grandma B! I tried to get Tanner to smile, but he just kept telling me "Mom, I still like my jammies, but I just don't want to smile right now." What a funny little kid! With only one car, we all pack in to take Korby to work in the morning and we all pick him up in the evening. Here is Jackson reading a magazine while we wait for Korby to come out the other night. He was so interested in it and it just made him look so mature~ I couldn't resist.
Well, we are finally back on the up and up, getting back to normal (whatever that is), and starting the count down to spring!

It's finished..... or is it?

Halleluiah! Last night I finished my last shirt!!!! Since it took me a week to get it all done I had to do laundry again and reiron some shirts. I ended up ironing a total of 63 shirts in 6 hours and 45 minutes!

My basket is officially empty! I'm done! Except that Korby already has one of the shirts on this morning, so it begins all over again!

Shayden told me our house looked like the store we go to get dad's suits cleaned (the dry cleaners!) I should be getting paid for this!

PS Heather made a comment on my last post about wrinkle free shirts. I love them, however, they are not wrinkle free and crisp enough for Korby's taste! They are significantly easier to iron than regular shirts though.

PSS How crazy am I? Last night we just bought Korby ANOTHER shirt! I guess that will make it an even 40.

I've got my work cut out for me

Korby has to wear a shirt and tie to work everyday and for church meetings on Sunday and Tuesday. So, needless to say, he has a lot of shirts which requires a lot of ironing. I have been a total slacker and have not ironed a thing for quite a while. I don't pay a lot of attention to Korby's side of the closet, but yesterday I went in and noticed that this is what it looked like...

There was not a single shirt in there! Then I went to take a look at my ironing basket, which always has at least some clothes in it. But again, I quess I hadn't been paying much attention to it, because this is how big the mountain had gotten.....

I had just finished the laundry, so everything was clean. I dumped out the basket and counted the items~

Jackson: 5 shirts

Tanner: 6 shirts

Jenni: 1 shirt

Korby: 39 shirts.... that's right 39 shirts! So I made a deal with myself that I would work on the ironing for the next couple of days until my basket is empty. I also decided to start timing myself to see how long it was going to take me to iron it all. It seemed so daunting, that I did just about everything else I could find to do around the house before starting~ cleaned both toilets and bathroom sinks, did 2 loads of dishes, cleaned my room, made my bed (at 9:30 pm- that's how desperate I was not to have to start ironing), cleaned out my walet and purse, paid the bills, cleaned out the desk drawers. I would have done more, but my kids were in bed and I had to be quiet. So, I finally started ironing and here is what I accomplished in an hour and a half....

I still have quite a ways to go, so maybe I should go iron instead of playing on the computer!

Blogging Record

With my last blog I have posted more times in 2008 than I did in all of 2007~ and it's only February! (Also notice that I only posted 4 times in 2007~ not very hard to pass up.) I think I am well on my way to becoming an official blogger. Most of you probably don't care about this, but my kids are very excited about it!

Catsup or Katsup?

Jackson has a new favorite food~ catsup! It started innocently enough with french fries, but it has quickly escalated into dipping everything he can in it! Here are some pictures of Jackson eating lunch today. It started with hot dogs~ pretty normal. Then he dipped his fruit leather (like a fruit roll up), banana and his graham cracker in it as well. To each his own.....