rachel's continued ramblings

sunday: easter! all decked out for church. monday: situations like this make me really miss having a dog. tuesday: micah’s turn for fillings. thursday: apparently this was a good hairstyle. I got comment after comment, including from the 14 year old.   also thursday: I asked micah to clean up the thomas dominoes. this is how he chose to do it. friday: lunch time staring contest. saturday: micah’s friend: I’m not captain america, I’m MRS. america! LOL. and a couple of extra skinnies: 1) this container was full of blueberries. and then micah came home from school. 2) new scarf I found in the girls’ section in target. half the price!   

it was spring break week around here, so that means, a trip to hawaii! just kidding. it meant lots of trips to the dentist … monday: layla, getting silly with the laughing gas before her first set of fillings. also monday: micah in the chair, getting his teeth cleaned. he would. not. stop. talking. he was seriously hilarious. tuesday: not sure how the subject came up, but layla and I were talking about friendship bracelets and she wanted me to teach her how to make them. I was very excited to share this. when I was younger, I went through embroidery floss and masking tape like it was going out of style. there was a permanent tape residue stripe on the dashboard of my mom’s car from me making bracelets all the way to and from the rink every day, and every road trip we ever took. SO much fun to share this with layla. also tuesday: “look at my cowboy hat!” …leftover pancakes: not just for eating. wednesday: it was back to the dentist for us. side #2 of fillings for layla, and a cle...

either I hit the jackpot… or my parenting is an epic fail… or maybe both. 2 of my 3 kids had to go to the dentist today. micah, for a cleaning and layla, to get some cavities filled. we’re going back on wednesday so shane can have a cleaning and layla can get more cavities filled. and then micah gets to go back next tuesday. to get one of about 4 million cavities filled. WHAT???? sigh. so, I’m feeling like a total failure as a parent here. in addition, I’m a little confused. see, I’ve never had a cavity. yes, I’m 37 years old, and I’ve never had a cavity. NEVER. I also never needed braces and I still have all 4 of my wisdom teeth. I realize I’m a bit of a dental freak, here. but I grew up knowing that I would be TOTALLY BUSTED if I went to the dentist and had a cavity. I don’t know why I knew this, other than apparently my mother did a good job of instilling a horrific fear of cavities in me, and I did my best to comply. I took for granted that if you brushed your teeth an...

sunday: on the way home from church… first of all, yes, we squeezed them all into the back of the kia. hey, it’s 20 miles to church! we gotta save gas! second, #1 kid is tired because he was out super-late at a bowling party. #2 kid is tired because she was at a slumber party. #3 kid is not tired, but thrilled to be stuck in the middle and used as a pillow. monday: sunny and 70? that means one thing to me! got the clothesline strung back up and hung 2014’s inaugural load to dry! happy dance, happy dance! I wanted to twirl, sound of music style, across my backyard in glee! tuesday: a little mishap earlier in the day caused us to need to take the computer desk out of shane’s room to replace the one in the office which was no longer functional… of course, this led to many ‘redecorating’ possibilities for shane. the wide open space in his room was soon filled with the papasan chair. he also had the sudden urge to use his computer (for the first time in many, many months, if not actually ...

sunday: a special baby shower brunch to honor a good friend and her soon-to-be baby boy! also sunday: dave and I went out to dinner at a new restaurant in town (well, newish… we hadn’t been there yet, so it was new to us) for our march date night. I felt a little silly ordering the vegetarian sandwich and having them add bacon… but it was delicious. monday: doing my AVP job and organized a supply drive to help out with relief efforts for the oso mudslide, just north of us. our MOMS club is awesome. I made the announcement on wednesday, gave them the list of what we needed on thursday, and had a full trunk-load of food, diapers, wipes, hygiene supplies, and paper products collected by sunday night. wednesday: fun new game we have going on. it’s called “where will we find micah sleeping when we go to bed?” the previous night, we tucked him in in his own bed, but found him in ours when we tried to get in it. this time, it wasn’t so obvious. dave spotted the foot. not sure I would have ...