Caterpillars and Butterflies....

So today I was thinking I was going to stay home because we have been so busy! But I thought I need to have something fun for the kid's to do otherwise they will be climbing the wall or not getting along. So I was looking online for crafts and cooking crafts to do with my kids at school and found the very tasty caterpillar.

Now please know that my caterpillar's looked like snakes instead, but that's OK the kids still loved it. I made 3 total one for my kids at school tomorrow and then that left 2 for us. They were very small circles but I didn't want them to be very big. We are going to be talking about the life stage of a butterfly tomorrow at school so I though how appropriate to make this caterpillar pizza to have at lunch and then butterfly cookies for dessert. I always like trying things out at home before I do them at school, the kids always love the chance to get in the kitchen and help me cook. They had a blast helping and playing with the flour and left over pizza dough. My flour was a mess after they dumped flour in the floor but that's OK it was cleanable. If that is even a word. :)

So after nap they got to decorate the cookies, I decorated the ones going to school tomorrow and you will see why after the pictures of bailee and bryson's decorated cookie's. :) All in all it was a fun day, now I'm not so sure I got any rest like I was hoping for but oh well there is always tonight! I'm going to be a heathen and not go to church, get early baths, dinner, and kiddo's off to bed earlier! Whew I'm tired just thinking about all I have to do tonight! I would not have it any other way though!

Spring.......

I love Spring, its beautiful with the flowers blooming, the grass becoming green again, its just such a new feeling. I do not like the Tornado aspect of Spring but it just comes with the territory. Now Spring for 2 of my children health wise is probably not their favorite. Bryson and Bella have had a hard time with everything blooming and the weather warm one day then cold the next. Bella began with the wheezing first. She woke up on a Monday night with this very strange breathing so I start breathing treatments and sat up with her until midnight to make sure she was ok. Well her wheezing continued that week by Friday she was having not so pleasant diapers because of the pulmicort and finally after a complete week of wheezing is better. Of course she does go this coming Monday for her 15 month well visit gosh that is hard to believe.

Now for Bryson he just started wheezing this week at least it wasn't both of them at the same time they traded off weeks. I always now when Bryson is not feeling well because he just lays around and sucks his thumb. He has not gone into the full blown wheezing but has the tight chest and runny nose and a very hoarse(spelling?) voice. They want to still be outside all the time and I hate to not let them but it is just not good for their allergies. So I have to choose whether we stay in and don't enjoy the nice fresh pollen air or go out and take that chance of multiple runny noses, watery eyes, and wheezing. Well we usually choose to go outdoors who wants to stay in on such a beautiful day.

Things have been somewhat better since my last post of Lots.... I decided that I was going to put us on this regimented schedule at home because I am always running around rushing the kids to get ready and we just have this mass frustration and anger flowing through the house. Plus I know with Bailee starting Kindergarten in the Fall we need to have a better way of getting ready and out of the house than just rushing to get dressed, no time for breakfast, just chaos. So the whole schedule thing is working out great and things are less stressful.

I can not believe that next week I will be registering my baby girl for Kindergarten where did these 5 years go? It has flown by. I look back and think how much time have I wasted on stuff that didn't matter and to just relish the time with her before she is off to school. I know now that I need to do that with the other 2 that are right behind her growing up just as fast.

Lots......

Well here goes, Friday March 27th we had Bailee's Fancy Nancy Party it was a huge success. All the girl had a great time and so did Bailee. At 3:00 pm the hot water heater went out oh lovely!! We call a plumber who comes out at 9:00 pm and tells us yes you need a new one we can do it parts, labor, heater and 10 year warranty for $1235. Oh the joys of being a homeowner. Thankfully we still had some tax return money, but it was vacation money!!! Anyways that next day they are there putting in the new one. Boy do we have hot water. At 3:00 that afternoon I had scheduled a spa party like I needed to have another party that weekend!! Hello what is wrong with me? The party was fun, but then we got all these Tornado warnings and yes take cover all this bla bla bla stuff, the news people are really getting to were they are so overreactive. Yes im still just as afraid of tornado's as always but good grief they go overboard.

So that was a very busy 2 days. Then I remembered oh yeah we volunteered to keep two seminary students overnight on Sunday. I had told them to just use us as a backup well we were needed. SO now im off to washing towels, changing sheets, cleaning the house up once again. We had some of the sweetest girls to stay with us they were awesome I totally enjoyed them being here. My kids loved them too, Bailee keeps referring to them as the sweet girls that stayed with us. That Monday I had to have them at the church by 10:30, Bailee and Bella had a doc visit at 11:00, I had the grocery store, Dance, and all kinds of stuff to do that day. Whew I feel tired all over again just thinking of how tired I was. Tuesday of course was school, Wednesday we went to the park with bryson's friend emillie, Thursday was school, Friday we of course did our usual running around, Saturday I had rehearsal for a drama I was in at church.

Now let me slow down and explain this drama. I was to have this monologue of inner thoughts about being a stay at home mom and all the stresses I feel. Well this was a piece of cake for me I told them you will be getting the real deal here!! My monologue was as follows:
"Mom, Mom, ugh if I hear that one more time im going to change my name. On days like today when the kids just wont get ALONG, and the baby will not stop SCREAMING I could very well loose my mind. There is all this pressure on me to be a mom, a wife, take care of the house, cooking, cleaning, mounds and mounds of laundry, changing diapers. I spend all day meeting everyone's needs. But what about my needs? just because im a mom does not mean I dont have needs. Like to be able to go to the grocery store and not hear MOM HE HIT ME, or MOM I GOTTA GO PEE, or trying to keep the baby from once again wiggling herself out of the strap and standing up in the seat of a moving buggy!! Im just so tired!!"
After my monologue 3 other people said theirs then the Jesus Character came to each one of us for us to pour our cup into His and our song director told me he wanted me to give Jesus attitude like it was just someone else coming to bother me, attitude I can do but it felt weird doing it to a Jesus character. But anyways it turned out to be a great drama, everyone said they thought my part was funny, I told them that was my life.!!

So now that brings me to this week. Monday was not so busy, Bryson didnt go to music because once again he was not cooperating at all and I was not about to go and put on this fake happy face at music as thought i was bubbling over with Joy to be singing songs with my son who at the moment I just was really not happy with. Bailee did not have dance that night yeah! So during their nap time I thought I have got to come up with something to get him to cooperate with me every morning because its like that every single day and it just makes my day just start horrible. So I came up with a reward system where they earn play money and at the end of the week they can buy things that I have gotten from the Dollar tree such as candy, pencils, stickers, and so on. Well Bryson said im going to cooperate. Tuesday morning when I go in to wake him for school, I thought to myself yes its going to work, He earned a dollar because yes he did cooperate.

Now so much for my wishful thinking because we get to school and we start having a melt down about something he wants to do I tell him NO and what his options are and he just continues in this horrible fit of ugliness!!!!! So it of course just escalates to a very unhealthy ugly scene with me crying and all upset, its time for kids to be arriving at school and I cant even hold it together to deal with my class. I am just so tired of all this, I feel like getting in the car and taking 3 days to myself, just to regain my sanity. I am trying all these different things to make this behavior stop and it all seems to be a failure!! I am standing my ground with them and following thru on everything I tell them will happen if they dont act right and that is killing me worse than just giving in....Im not so sure I can make it through this stage!!! I know that once we get past this that it will be so much better in the long run but OH MY LORD I NEED HELP making it thru till then. OK im so sorry that I have vented and posted such a long post but I feel better now. I will post pictures from Bailee's party and then I also have pictures from the park but I will post them on another post since I made this one so long!

Yes I am still here.....

OK I know I have really neglected the blog, I have such a hard time finding the time anymore. We have just had this wave of sickness that just keeps circulating through everyone. Well we have been busy as usual, of course you saw all the few new things we got for v-day, we also have a few other things that we are excited about, I now have a very nice Kitchen Aide stand mixer, I have wanted one since I started all the cake baking and David surprised me with it Monday night, so to try it out I made homemade cinnamon rolls, now I got the recipe from David's grandmother and trust me they are not as good as hers I don't think anyone could ever make them as good as she does, but they are very close. David's mom also had a hot tub that she needed to sell so she sold it to us for a very very cheap price I don't think you could ever end up with a hot tub for what we paid for it. Anyways its a 4 person soft tub so there are no seats its just soft on the outside and inside, its pretty neat. I wasn't really wanting to get it because I said when will we ever have time to just go relax in the hot tub with 3 kids? Well it has been good for our relationship because we make the kids go to bed on time each night and then that still gives us 20-30 minutes to relax if we want.

The first night David had the water way tooo hot he had it set on 104 I started feeling sick and got out. It was in the 30's outside but boy it felt great after being in such hot water. Last Friday Me, David, Mom, and Bailee got in there at first Bailee didn't know if she wanted to but since David lowered the temperature greatly she was able to get in so now she loves it and says hey lets get in the hot tub we started a bad thing. :0

Next is we painted our bedroom. Now it has been 5 years since we painted our room and it was long overdue. When we painted our room last was right after my miscarriage before we had Bailee and so I always associate it with that, so I told David Saturday we need to paint this room. I just love the brown and blue together so we went to Walmart and found a new comforter and then went to Lowe's to have the paint matched. Now let me tell you, we took the paper from the bedding set in and they matched it exactly with the paper. Well when we went to paint the brown it looked exactly like a can of melted milk chocolate but we thought well it will be pretty with the blue and it will match. WE paint the brown then the blue and I absolutely love it. Well we still have 2 other walls to paint because we cant move all of the furniture out so we have to do 2 at a time but I was able to get a picture of the wall that was done, well I say done but we have to bring the blue and brown to match up so there wont be the white space in the middle. After we are done painting we take the tarp off the bed to see how nice its going to look and boy were we surprised to realize that the brown in the fabric is not the same in the picture. The fabric brown is soooooo much lighter. Oh well it matches out sheets to a tee. It still looks good we just have to finish the other 2 walls now.

So then now to the current state Bella has a very bad respiratory viral infection where she is wheezing, and breathing very heavy so we are doing breathing treatments and they are going to watch her closely to make sure she does not follow in her big brothers foot steps with the asthma. It has just been crazy around here. I'm so ready for spring and warm weather.

Bailee will be five in a week and 4 days, it is so hard to believe. I can not wait till her birthday party. She is having a Fancy Nancy party and we have gotten feather boa's, pearl necklaces, fancy pens, all kinds of stuff. She is very excited as well. We go on the 23rd to tour the school where she will go to kindergarten and she is absolutely thrilled about that. SO no it will not be almost a month before I post again because I will have lots of fun pictures from her party to share with everyone. So stay tuned.....

Our Valentine Gifts

Thanks to tax return David and I went shopping last saturday to pick out our valentine day gifts. WE had already wanted a Flat Screen TV for the living room so David found his. Then while were at HH Gregg they had a wonderful sale on smooth top stoves. So guess what that is what I picked out. So last night I said ok im going to take a picture of our gifts. So first I picture my stove, and then I go to take a pic of the tv and right when i snapped the photo this hot chic comes on a suave commercial and David said yeah thats perfect tell everyone that's what I got for V-day, we laughed so hard bc it was just perfect timing the way it happended.

The other fun thing was we had the perfect box to make a little house for the kids to play in from the stove, I always wanted to do that as a kid but never did being an only child. So I had just as much fun as the kids cutting our a door and windows then I said oh lets paint it and decorate it. We had so much fun, I pretended that they were the little pigs and that I was the big bad wolf and I would shake their house and they would scream and laugh the most adorable little belly laugh. Remember when I said I was going to make every minute of everyday count well I did last night.

Here are the photo's of our new gifts to each other. I could not get them to move sorry they are at the top instead.

Saddness

I have to get this off my chest. I received a phone call from my boss that a little girl in my class her mother passed away unexpectedly last night. I just had a major reality check that we never know when it is our last day. I'm so heart broken and at a loss for words for how this feels. I have so many conflicting thoughts going through my mind that im not even sure how to process those thoughts. Her mom had a real bad ear ache and they gave her medicine and then she went into a coma and then died. I was then told that she actually had bacterial meningitis. Because it was contained in her ear it was not contagious as normal. The health department and the CDC said that we would not be at risk. Their 2 girls tested negative as well for bacterial meningitis. It's so hard to understand in times like this why these things happen and I know we are not to question God and I know He will work all things for the good. It is still so hard to not wonder why these 2 little girls no longer have their mommy here. The girls do not understand that their mommy is gone and I know that they will not understand until they are sick, or scared, or sad. That void will be there no matter how much love their daddy shows them. It has just really made me think that I must cherish every minute with my family and make every minute count because we never know when it will be our last. You know you have heard sermon's on this before but it never really hits home until something like this. It's just one of those things where you want to say this just really STINKS!!!! So please remember the Mooney Family as they mourn, and deal with a whole new way of life.

Were Still here

OK sorry that I have neglected the blog but im just addicted to facebook. Also I have not really had anything to post latley because everyone has been sick and so I have been very busy taking care of all the sick one's. SO hopefully by next week I will have a new post or some photos of the kids we are suppose to have 2 playdates next week so im sure I will have a few photo's from that. Talk to you all soon.