I know this is kind of uncalled for and way out of order but I have a random post of the day. David left for a five day trip to Alaska today and for whatever reason, I lost my voice today. As a result, instead of talking on the phone, I wrote him an e-mail about my day which is basically a blog post. Anyways, here it is if you want a random blog-post in the middle of my monthly catch-ups. I even included a couple random pictures:
Church went well. Getting ready for church was not good, Haley was super bad and I ended up just spanking her which did work. I did the stick and we had a talk after and everything. She was being especially ridiculous and had been literally screaming and crying for about 5 - 10 minutes. I'm surprised she hasn't lost her voice. At church we sat with Kelsey and Michael which was perfect. Haley did well and Kelsey held Emily most of the time. Emily stayed in panties during her class and didn't have any accidents at church period. As we were driving out, Steve Mason flagged me down and invited me to go to Tele's with them (the restaurant near Skinner's). They had the Liebengood kids with them since Marietta stayed home with Kelly who is still feeling under the weather. That worked out really well because Chloe helped me with the girls. Libby fell asleep at the restaurant and Emily was accident-free. She went two times while we were there and one of the times she actually requested to go which is a first in a long time for me. After Tele's we came home and I put the girls down for naps. Emily and Libby both took a little bit to fall asleep. Haley slept in our bed and went right down. I did my Bible study and then took a nap as well. I let them sleep until about 4:45 and then Libby woke up and I laid her next to Haley which woke Haley up and then Haley "used her wand" to wake Emily up. I got them dressed and everything and then we went to wal-mart on the way to the Freeman's. When we walked into Wal-mart, Haley and Emily both started to climb onto the side of a cart together. The cart tipped over on top of them. A black man walking out of the store helped me grab the cart before it fell completely and I put Libby inside and then picked up Emily who had fallen flat on her back/head and was crying hard. Haley was fine and not really crying. The welcome lady was an older black lady and she asked me if 'he' was okay and said that she had to have someone come do a report or something. I told her I needed to go after a couple minutes but by that time a lady was walking up. That lady was younger but she said, 'is he okay?' I said, 'she's fine.' Then she said, 'do you want me to report it, is he going to be okay?' Then I said something like, 'she's really okay and it is a girl. Can I go?' And she said it was fine and I went and we grabbed some ice cream and a pack of diapers of Emy at night. After wal-mart we went straight to the Freeman's who were grilling steak for fajitas which were awesome. They had El Pollo chips, salsa, and tortillas. During dinner Haley declared "this is the best dinner I've ever had." I told her to be polite so I guess she wanted to take it to the next level. They had also invited Katie Hopkins and her daughters since Jon is out of town so they were there and I knew they were going to be so it wasn't a surprise or anything. Meg, Katie and I talked for a bit about women's Bible study and during dinner we all (including Vance) talked about birth stories. Apparently it was kind of a bummer that Owen was a C-section but it actually ended up saving Sarah Cate's life because then she had to be a c-section by default and as it turned out, she was so wrapped up in her umbilical chord that the doctor said she probably would have died if they had tried to deliver her vaginally. Vance said her face was blue and the chord was all wrapped around her and she was wedged up into the corner of Meg's uterus. I guess Meg has a heart-shaped uterus. Anyways, that's probably more than you wanted to know about that. Jon Hopkins was in Dallas for the weekend and he got home around 7:45 and came to the Freeman's so we saw him too. We left around 8:30 and came home and put on jammies right away and brushed our teeth and then skyped you. Then I read them books. I didn't even finish one book before i put Emily to bed because she was getting cranky and wild. Then I read to just Haley until I pretty much couldn't talk anymore because of my voice. Now we're going to bed.
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| Haley and Emily helping Daddy fix the mower. You can tell this is earlier in the summer because our grass it much more brown now. It was in the mid nineties today. |
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| Emily loves to help |
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| It seems unsafe to help in panties though... |
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| Libby |
