Who will come occupy this poor little ignored child? She is bored and sad. Will anyone help entertain her?

I've said it before, and I'll say it again...

I hate the weather in April.

Final Product

Spring "Break": Part 7

Friday night while Adam was gone camping with scouts I helped the girls dye Easter Eggs. Even though they know we are going to be making them into Deviled Eggs for Easter Sunday Lunch, they wanted to dye them. So we went to the store and bought a couple of kits and set out to make the eggs pretty. Here is Haley making her fake smile face:

Abigail has a real smile, but I think that she doesn't remember ever doing this before. We are not really good about dying eggs every year. Sometimes we forget, and sometimes the kids won't let me forget, like this year.

A plethora of colors:

It really is a fun tradition to do the eggs with the kids. With the boys getting older and not wanting to do so many fun holiday activities I am afraid that the girls, and especially Abigail who doesn't really remember doing much before this year, will miss out on all of the fun things that can be done during the different holidays. Hopefully I will get better at remembering to do the cookies, and eggs, and wreaths and other fun things.

How To... Read a How To Post

Step 1: Go to Stie's blog.
Step 2: Read her "How To".
Step 3: Read everyone else's "How To".
Step 4: Get completely obsessed with the other blogs that you find due to the "How To" and become a blogstalker.
Step 4: After weeks of reading all of the "How Tos" write a short "How To" so that you can feel included.
Step 5: Try harder next week with your "How To".

Good enough for a first time?

Spring "Break": Part 6

So speaking of breaking...

Lewis called me at about 9:00, right when he was supposed to be finishing his basketball game. He jammed his finger and nobody would pull it out for him because it looked disgusting, and he did not want to pop it back out by himself so he had to drive to the ER. All of the Insta Cares close at 9:00 so there was nowhere else to go. He called me so that I could meet him at the ER and bring him the FLEX card, so he could pay for the visit.

When he got there they put him in a room and the nurse was setting him up with blood pressure cuff and a heart rate finger pad. She accidentally put the finger pad on his hurt finger and when she pulled it off to move it she inadvertently popped his finger back into place. So by the time I got there he was fine but they would not let him leave without having an x-ray.

Before I left him to go back home I managed to get him a glass of water even though there was an evil ER nurse that did not want him drinking, just in case he would have to have surgery... um yeah. He was going to need surgery because of a jammed finger...

He needed a splint for a week or so and they gave him some Motrin and a light pain pill just in case it was worse the next day. So now Lewis is fine, but he is telling the kids that his hand is broken so that they will give him foot massages and get him drinks and stuff. Not to mention that it is his middle finger that is hurt so he is walking around flipping all of us off all day.

Spring "Break": Part 5

On Thursday night Abigail decided to make bag puppets. This is Bob Jon. At least she kept herself busy for a while.

I totally remember doing this when I was little and having my mom get mad that we wasted the lunch sacks. We would make like 25 of them and do a puppet show, but then there would be no bags for lunches for the rest of the month. Oh well, like I said she kept herself busy for a while.

Post Script...

I woke up Wednesday morning at 4:20 in so much pain I had to get up and take pain medicine again. I called the dentist and he said that since it had only been 36 hours since my root canal it might still hurt because of the infection. He explained that the tooth was like a sliver in your finger. He took out the sliver but the infection takes time to go away. Hopefully it will get better soon. So far Wednesday, I have felt pretty okay!

Spring "Break": Part 4

On Wednesday I took my kids and went with M.R. and her kids to Thanksgiving Point. We took the kids to the Farm. Her are the girls sitting on a cow:

Here they are petting a baby goat. She was so cute! She is 2 weeks old.

They rode horses:

We did not feed our fingers to the horses!

We saw baby rabbits:

we saw tulips:

Jason even asked to have his picture taken:

Don't worry, he did not smash any of the flowers.

After the farm we took the kids to eat at the deli and to have some ice cream.

Spring "Break": Part 3

Monday I went into the Dentist to have my root canal. I ended up being there for 2.5 hours. He gave me more pain medicine and told me to stay on it for the next couple of days because the infection was not better. He said that the water incident on Friday night did more harm than anything else. Even though it was stopping the pain temporarily it was causing irritation within the tooth. He said that hopefully I would feel better in a day or two.

When I got home Adam had a bunch of friends in the yard digging a trench and having a huge air soft war. Lewis went out to grab me some dinner and I went to bed.

Tuesday I had a hair appointment and got all pretty. Feeling good so far!