WHERE ARE THE SHOES?

This is going to be a big weekend for us. Today is Saturday at 9:45 a.m. and at 4 am this morning Ben took the twins up north till Sunday. Cam is on a 4 wheeling trip with his Dad. So Mom gets a weekend to herself. Totally alone. Just me in the house for all of Saturday & Sunday. Kinda of a weird feeling. I have not been in the house without all the kids since the twins were born so it is very quiet. I have thousands of things I have wanted to get working on but now that I actually have some time I am not sure where to start. It is harder to get motivated to do things when you have time verse when you are limited to getting it done during a 2 hour nap.

Prior to Ben and the boys leaving we had a super busy week. Cameron was on his last week of school and Cousin Kaylee is in New York so I thought that it would be a calm week around here. Not the case. Monday was the Ultrasound - and the Doctor did call - Baby is doing great, placenta is still 'low lying' and so I still have some restrictions for lifting, which always makes me laugh seeing as the boys are both over 20 pounds. The Doctor may have to do another ultrasound to monitor location prior to my C-section but we are not sure when.
Tuesday and Wednesday during the day I had Adam (my friends son, who is 10). He is a great help with the little boys but I am afraid he was a little bored with me at times. I watched him a couple days last summer and will do so again this summer but usually Cameron is around to play with so I think this was a little tougher without a playmate. Thursday I was thrilled for it to be just me and the twins so of course I thought I could get a million things done and we did but it is never as much as you planned to do. I took the boys grocery shopping which is never fun with a huge list so Cal sat in the front and Clayton had to sit in the basket and got buried under a ton of food. He did not even whine when I placed a watermelon in the basket with him. They are such good boys!!! When we got back and the boys napped I finished packing for them to go up north. Thursday evening Grandma Grace watched all three of the boys and I went to a really fun Pampered Chef party while Ben mowed the lawn by his parents house.
In addition to all of my busy things I really should not fail to mention that Ben has been working his tail off both at work and at home. This whole week once the kids are in bed he has been working on finishing up the new window stuff and redoing the drywall in the room that will be Cameron's new room soon. It is really coming along and I sure did not realize the amount of work that would go into that.
By Friday I was exhausted but I had scheduled for Josh (friend of ours) to come out and do two year pictures for the twins. Cameron had a half day of school and then a couple hours to kill before he would be leaving to go up north also. Needless to say we got through pictures with lots of fruit snack bribing and even some help from Cameron and then sent Cam off on his weekend of 4 wheeling with his dad. The little boys napped and I finished getting everything ready for the trip up north. Then, as if we had not booked enough for this week/weekend Ben and I were going to the Brewers game with some family and so my sister and brother in law watched the twins last night. The Brewers won, we had a blast, but I think I planned to much for one week.

So this morning at 3:30 a.m Ben wakes me up and we pack up the van with everything (and I mean everything) I thought he might need for the little boys up north and then we get them from their beds and put them in the van and away they go. I will admit it, I cried a little. Then I did try to go back to bed for a while. I talked to Ben a couple times on his 4 hour trip up north and he said the boys did go back to sleep and they were both good on the way so it made me feel a little better. Clayton on threw up a little bit and we had planned for that so Ben handled it like a champ. I got up around 8:30 and started wandering around and was not sure what to do. At a little after 9 Ben calls. Guess what we forgot to send. SHOES. I was so upset, I cried, again. I forgot to send their shoes. Normally they would wear them so I did not pack them. OOPS. Ben is much more laid back then me (surprise), so he was not as upset as I was. I was so mad at myself. Now an hour later I realize that it is not the end of the world and that the boys will survive with or without shoes. Blogging must be therapeutic for me. So that is the start to my kid free weekend! I am sure I will do many updates this weekend and get pictures up as soon as Ben gets home. Hope everyone enjoys their weekends too.