Last night Josh and Mike went camping. Then Jake went to his friends’ house. Emma, Elaina and I were able to spend a quiet night at home alone most of the night. It was really nice. The girls talked me into bringing the table into the living room and draping blankets on it for a tent. The girls wanted to sleep in their “tent”, so I let them stay up watching TV until Jake got home. I figured we could sleep in this morning (well until 8 anyway). Jake got home @ 11:15. Emma decided she wanted to sleep in her bed, thus leaving Elaina alone in the living room. Elaina freaked out and started bawling. I went ahead and let her sleep with me. I normally don’t let her sleep in my bed when Mike is gone but she ends up there anyway. She is up at least a couple of times a night. When she sleeps in my bed, she stays down all night.
When I finally got them all to bed, Jake reminded me that he needed to be to Albertsons at 7 this morning. YEAH! I love teenagers.
We made it just fine this morning. I even got the girls to the primary program practice on time. Tomorrow should be interesting. Half the primary kids and teachers weren’t there. I’m not sure that only 1 practice was such a good idea.
Tonight we went with Mike to a Chinese restaurant for his birthday. It is a tradition that for birthdays we go out to eat at the birthday person’s place of choice. Mike always picks Chinese. Emma wasn’t too excited about Chinese, but she didn’t pitch a fit. That was nice. We all walked (more like waddled) out having eaten way more than necessary. Even Elaina had her fill.
The kids are really excited for Mike's birthday tomorrow. We don’t have big plans since it is Sunday. I do think it was really nice of the primary to put on this special program for his birthday, though (at least that’s what we keep telling him). Hopefully he will have a good day. We all have worked hard to try to make it a good day for him.
2 comments:
Tell Mike.....Happy Birthday from us!!! We hope that he has had a great day. How was the program? I'm sure it went fine. Even if they practiced for a solid month it still wouldnn't be perfect. No one really cares. It's just always fun to see your kids up there and enjoying it (or hating every minute of it like my Austin does). It can be fun when dad's are gone. We can make normal things special like you did moving the table. Glad to know that you are a fun mom. I probably wouldn't have gone to that extreme but I'm glad that you did. I sure love and miss you. The kids are excited about this weekend. Their primary program is Sunday, Oct 24th. Wouldnn't you know it?? We will make it work. I love YOU!!
The program went really good. I was really impressed. :) My kids are really looking forward to this weekend as well. It's all Elaina has talked about. We will work out how to get the kids back to you in time for their program Sunday. :) love ya!
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