Valentine's day party

Well, my 6 year old, since I can remember, has ALWAYS loved planning and "setting  up" parties. Whether it is an impromptu tea party, a "daddy is home party" or pretend birthday party. Anna loves it. So when the two preschool kids (mine of course) were preparing their valentines for their preschool V-day parties, Anna was sad, and wanted to do one of her own. I realized, that with all the craziness of the last few weeks, she has felt a little bored and kind of left out. So to try and remedy that, we went so she could pick out some valentines, Barbie was the choice, she decorated, "addressed" them, and taped dum dums to them. She originally wanted to hand them out at the two homeschool co-ops we attend, but decided to stick with her cousins and siblings and parents. I told her yesterday we would have a "family" vday party today. So, I made heart shaped cupcakes, and when we came home from co-op today, we had a "party". Each invited person came...that would be me, Anna, Aidan, Madeline, Caitlin, and daddy. Everyone iced and decorated their cakes, and we had orange slices, and "pink" milk. Then, everyone told why they loved everyone else. It satisfied her need for a party, and I felt like a good mom today :)

I was pleased to find out yesterday that we get to have a parents night out tonight. The 3 older kids are going to their pizza party fun night at the preschool, and me, brian and the baby are going on a date. Believe it or not, it is a date even with the baby. (Which of course, I may not have thought so when I had fewer or no children!) So in about an hour, we are off to our night out. We may go to the Melting Pot, or Cheesecake Factory or maybe somewhere else. Still not sure. Anyway, hopefully little Cait is sleepy!!

I got a call today from the "appointment setter" and we have our first showing booked!! Yay!  It is exciting. Hopefully this will not be all that long of a process. I started my St. Joseph Novena today, without the superstitious burying of the statue though. Couldnt bring myself to do that part. But I do believe in the power of prayer, so I know God is taking care of it, with St. Joseph's intercession!!  It is our first time selling a house. I am praying for wisdom with all steps, from showings, accepting or denying offers, counter offering, buying, new house decisions, packing, sorting, tossing, etc. It is quite a process. Anyway, I am quite proud of how our house turned out. I dont know how it would have turned out without my "down to business" husband, and my fantastic SIL who staged our entire house, and her husband who did an awesome paint job for us! God knows when I need help, and I have seen him deliver!! Praise God in his good wisdom!!!!!

BTW, if I could, I would post links to other things here, blogs, interesting things I find, etc, let me know how to do it!!!

So I guess I will continue to get on here apprx. every 6 months and update my life. To all my zero readers. hehe. I dont know why i dont blog more, I like it, i like reading blogs, hmmm...it is a mystery. Oh wait, maybe because i have 4 children now. and I am homeschooling, and I am trying to sell my house, and I am building a new one. Okay, now I feel better. 

Life seems to come at me fast. One minute, we are slowing down, and waiting things out with housing and moving etc, the next, I am packing my life away, "staging" my house, and constantly telling my kids to stop touching things and getting things out. I feel bad for them, I am too stressed to be creative, to tired to go places. Oh man. hopefully, they will remember their childhood with fondness, and not that they had a crazy yelling mommy all the time. Oh well. I do feel God has opened up so many doors. We will see where they lead. I have to remind myself to "be here now" as a favorite priest once said. I need to live in the moment more often. To stop and reflect if the "major" thing I am dealing with right now is important or not. We are in the process of building a house. It has always been a dream of mine, I need to remember that when I get stressed that there are 500 appointments to keep and countless decisions to make. I am so indecisive, so it is no easy task for me. God bless my husband for dealing with me during these appointments. :o) It is exciting though. We are moving next to my SIL and her family. It is really such an awesome opportunity. We were doubtful at times if it would happen, and still, we need to both sell our houses, so we will see what happens. 

One of my college friends started a blog with a friend of hers. It is a blog about all things Catholic. It is funny, my SIL and I have talked often about doing something very similar. Why is it, that there are some people who have good ideas, and then some people who bring ideas to fruition. I am proud of her though. Hopefully it can become a real help to moms out there. I know It is nice for me, a SAHM, a homeschooling mom, a CATHOLIC mom, to find others out there that are going through the same thing  as me. It is encouraging. 

My 6 year old, just lost her first tooth. She has been awaiting this day for a loooong time. She was very timid about wiggling it though. It was funny. When it finally did fall out, she was so anxious to put it under her pillow for the tooth fairy(dont ask me where she heard about that??) that she dropped it somewhere, and we could not find it even after 30 minutes of detailed searching and prayers to dear St. Anthony. She wailed for about an hour before dropping into a crying induced sleep. Poor thing. Anyway, I wrote her a letter from the Tooth Fairy and gave her a lollipop and a dollar. She was very happy the next day! 

Okay, so this post has been pretty all over the place. I guess that is all I will write today. Maybe I will be back before another 6 months has lapsed.

PS...I did have the baby!!! Little Caitlin Marie turned 3 months on the fifth. She is a joy!