11:00 Church

New church time!!! With 9:00 church I had little time to do hair for the girls (and me!). This year we have a chance! Thanks, Carole for the tip for the hair impaired (shedoeshair.blogspot.com).

Okay, there's still no hope for this hair yet. No amount of hairspray and encouraging can keep her hair in. She moves WAY too much and has WAY too much of an opinion. We've left trails of hair holders from our house to the girls' school. When I ask her what happened to her hair she just looks over the side of the stroller (we've also lost toys, socks and almost shoes and binkys and sippy cups).

What can I say? What a great group of girls.

Hopefully tomorrow's better

My last post was WAY funnier!

After school today the girls and I went to the library. I love watching the girls get completely absorbed in books. Even Lizzie loves books! (Well, she loves pulling them off the shelves.) The girls disperse to their usual spots and I rotate among them helping them find books while chasing Lizzie. After helping Ray, I went to check on the other girls. I see Emily quickly, but no Hannah. I look all over the children's section expecting to find her in her usual spots. I don't, so I ask Emily and Rachel to help.We all are looking now. Where is she?????? After not finding her I run downstairs with Lizzie under my arm and look on the first floor. I go to the help desk to ask if they've seen her. I must have looked pretty panicked because she immediately called "Code Adam", then did a description of Hannah over the intercom. The library was locked up and ALL the librarians came out of the back room and started searching. I ran back upstairs and continued to look in any little spot. A mom came up and asked if that was her reading some books. WHERE???? Hannah's little body was hidden from view. She was tucked inside some semi-circle stools that were put together creating a ring around her. She had no idea she was lost. Time to go home. We check out our books and march out of the library (with me walking by MANY watching eyes trying to look like a completely responsible, calm mom who CAN take care of 4 children.)

This post should end here, but sadly it doesn't...

Right after dinner the girls always do kitchen jobs. I was starting to clean off the table (Hannah's job tonight) and looked for Hannah. Called for Hannah...called for Hannah again (because seriously she was just right with us eating!). I run through the house (sound familiar?) calling her name. I start looking in hiding places and outside. (Yesterday she and her friend hid under the dining room table in a tent I had made, but after I called her name a few times I heard her laughing and she came out.) I run to my neighbor's house where Hannah loves to play, but she's not there. My neighbor offers to help me look, but I turn her down and ask her to send Hannah home if she pops up. I run back to the house and am now YELLING Hannah's name and looking under, in, behind everything. She would come out if she were here and if she's not here then she has to be at her friend's, so back to my neighbor's I go. All I can get out is, "I can't find her." Being the good friend she is, she immediately comes out to help me look. We don't think she would be outside--it's dark, so she must be at the house. My friend walks in my front door and doesn't even take three steps when Hannah steps out laughing! My friend, seeing that all is well turns to go knowing this is not going to be pretty. In seconds Hannah went from laughing to crying while putting on her pajamas.
When I calmed down, this is the story I got: She hid under Rachel's covers because she didn't want to clean off the table.

One day I'll chuckle at this story, right?

Some thoughts on chocolate...

I'm cleaning out some files (Does it count as housework?? because I'm pretty sure my laundry is more of a priority. Note to self: write down time management for goals for 2009) and found these quotes I used for an Enrichment activity to lure people to come dip pretzels. If they don't make you chuckle, please buy more chocolate for yourself--it makes life GOOD!
* Eat a square meal a day - a box of chocolate.
* I could give up chocolate, but I'm not a quitter.
* There’s more to life than chocolate, but not right now.
* Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
* Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies. ~John Q. Tullius
* There are four basic food groups-milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate and chocolate truffles.
* The 12-step chocoholics program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE! ~Terry Moore
* I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process.... It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?
* I don't understand why so many "so called" chocolate lovers complain about the calories in chocolate, when all true chocoholics know that it is a vegetable. It comes from the cocoa bean, beans are veggies, 'nuff said.