Phew!

What a rough couple of weeks we've had here.  Now the girls and the parents are feeling better.  Thankfully!  We are working on getting the house back to normal since everyone was sick no one wanted to do silly things like pick up after themselves.  Once we get the "just put it away" mentality back into everyones brains I will feel more at ease.  Until then, it's a never ending battle to keep the counter and table cleaned off.  We have a tiny dishwasher, which I am grateful for, don't get me wrong, but it gets run AT LEAST once a day, leaving a pile of dishes in the sink all the time.  One of these days I'll be completely on top of everything and not feel the stress of a messy kitchen.  It's not in my nature to have a mess, so I'm constantly picking up and cleaning off everything, and rarely ahead of the game.  That's just the way it goes when you're a stay at home mom I suppose.  I know my friends Jill and Crystal are reading this and nodding their heads in agreement. LOL!

Christian home preschool has taken a back seat to our sickness.  We are lovingly call it our spring break... hee hee!  We are getting back to that today too.  Why not yesterday you ask?  I had to do grocery shopping, which literally took all day.  Trevor and I started watching the Extreme Couponing show on TLC and have decided to work on getting a much free and cheap things that we can REASONABLY contain in our home and garage to sustain our family.  If it's possible, why not?  We have a little bit of room for these types of things and it would be wonderful to get things we use all the time for next to nothing, or even free.  This has consumed most of the nights and the girls naptimes, but I feel it will ultimately be worth all the effort.  In fact, yesterday I saved $28 at WalMart, $65 at Albertsons, and $42 at Safeway.  And I spent, out of pocket a total of $8.00.  So it was a great trip!!!

Well, that being said, time to empty the dishwasher (again!) and switch the laundry to the dryer so I can start another load.  Oh yea, and I should probably tend the the children and work on that home preschool with Hailey too, and then gracefully whip up some lunch... All in a days work! ;)