The Slippery Slope:

Hair Today..Gone Tomorrow

 October is in the air and the Phillies are heading to post season baseball!!! Woot Woot!  I've got to say that they've put me through the ringer these past two weeks, Chris has had to admonish me a couple of time about my yelling and waking up the kids and scaring them and what not, but they pulled it out tonight.  I can breath easier and relax for a couple of days. Maybe the children will sleep easier now!

I've recently taken my rather large rear end back to the gym.  We're planning a spring time getaway to a far away destination, and let's just say that I need to get things back in shape.  I started back at the Body Pump classes, and oh lordy, lordy I'm in pain.  I used to go quite regularly, but then life got in the way, and then I just stopped.  I went on Monday and by Monday evening, my legs were sore.  By sore, I mean excruciating, muscle searing, eye watering pain.  By Tuesday, it hurt to move anywhere.  Getting up  or sitting back down was just agonizing.  I got back on the treadmill to just stretch them out a bit, but it didn't seem to help.  This morning was only slightly better, but I went back to class.  No pain, no gain and all that, you know.  So tonight, I'm rather useless. It hurts to much to get up but when I do, it hurts to much to sit back down.  Here's hoping tomorrow is better.  I think I'll take a day off from the gym.

I know some of you have seen this on FB, book this will be a big surprise to others.  On Saturday, Jill apparently had enough of bangs falling in her eyes, so she took that matter into her own hands. Well, she took scissors into her own hands.   Unfortunately, she decided to cut the hair from the side of her head instead of her bangs. 

In this picture, you can see where she cut around her ear.  This hair was just above her shoulder.

In this one, you can see the chunk she cut from the back.

 

So she cried and cried when she realized what she did, but we didn't get upset.  It's only hair and I think all kids do it at some time or another.  Katherine cut her bangs down to her scalp when she was three, and Thomas cut his hair when he was four.  At the time, he adamantly blamed it on the Boogie Man.  I'm still laughing about that one.  In fact, in the wake of Jill's hair fiasco, he finally admitted that he was the culprit who had cut his hair and was just afraid that I would yell at him.  I strike fear in the hearts of four year olds!

We had to do something about the obvious unevenness, so I took her out to S*uper C*ts, and they fixed her all up.  It's short, think Demi Moore in Ghost, but it's quite cute.  Isn't she a sweetie?  Hey, look on the table, that my book.  The new Jamie and Claire story has arrived.  I've already shed a couple of tears, but it's a long book with several story lines, so it's taking me a while to get through.  Will let you know what I think when I'm done.

 

Yes, I suck.  I know it.  The blogging mojo just hasn't come back.  Damn you, Facebook!  Anyway, things have changed mightily since I've last posted.  Foremost, the husband is home!  Yes, he's been home for awhile.  In fact, he was only gone about 2.5 weeks.  Hardly a blink of the eye.  Easy Peasy.  He called me just before I was headed up the mountains before Labor Day and said that they've reorganized the detail and he'd been reorganized to home.  So I headed headed up the mountains with the kids and then surprised them with Daddy upon our return.

Our trip to the mountains was absolutely fantastic.  It's my new favorite place. Well, there aren't any elk but it's so beautiful I can hardly stand it.  Our cabin was very nice and there was plenty of room for my crew and for my sister's family who came up to share it with us.  Jill was so much better behaved then on our last trip, it made life so much more refreshing.  She didn't once ask "for her regular house" which was her unending cry during our family vacation.  It helped that there were tons of cousins there for her to play with.  She got along great with cousins and loved splashing in the icy, icy cold water.  How those kids played in that water, I'll never know.

Here's Katherine just dipping her feet in the water.

Here's a partial view from the beach:

This is a view from the Canyon Vista Overlook:

Here are my lovely boys:

And here's Sam trying to throw Tom off the mountain:

 (never fear, it just a joke!)

And this is a partial group shot of many of the kids on our last day right before we left:(I heart prepositional phrases)  

  It was too hard to get a non-goofy pose.

The other exciting news is that the KIDS ARE BACK IN SCHOOL!!! So far, everything is going well enough.  One child has already forgotten to bring home homework items two nights in a row, but I'm not naming any names.  Another child gave me a 3 page form asking for detailed information about child's learning styles to fill out 7 minutes before the bus was to arrive.  Again, no names, but I wrote that said child needs to work on her responsibility issues.  Sam has moved onto Junior High which has been smooth sailing so far.  Tomorrow night is back to school night for him and Chris and I are going together so we can get a first hand look at whats going on over there.  And our little Jilly will be starting 3 year old preschool on Friday.  Ahh, is that silence I hear?

Hey, did you notice that fancy book widget over there on the sidebar??  Yes, it's the books!  My favorite series of all time!  I've pre ordered and it should arrive next week. Don't expect to hear from me once that hits my doorstep.  Actually, nobody should expect anything from me--no dinners, no stories, no nothing.  Once I dive into these books, I don't come back up until I'm done.  Sorry dear, looks like you'll be doing the single Dad thing until I'm done :-)