The zoo is a happy place

It seems like I don't have much going on except work and sewing. I'll start putting all my finished projects up here soon enough. I've done some pretty awesome stuff lately (and my mom too!).

Jorden is on spring break this week so I'm thinking we'll do her room. I've had the fabric for almost a year so I figured it's about stinkin' time.

I'm pretty sure I mentioned it but I've working almost full time now (except when Hanna helps me) so I'm still having a hard time balancing it all. I *think* I'm getting better but some things are still suffering. Trying to remedy that slowly.

Got my hair done today and it's awesome. Cessa always does it right.

Dax is landscaping for me this week too so I'll get the before and afters up in a few weeks.

Life is a zoo

Ashleyism

So I own two pair of glasses. My newer ones with the good lenses got snapped in half (thank you Lillie!) and the other pair is a good frame but the lenses are from 8 years ago and don't help me at all. So the night before I was supposed to leave for NYC I was completely bugged because I wanted my glasses for Wicked because my contacts sometimes only last a few hours before they start bugging me and I didn't want my eyes bugging me in the middle of a Broadway musical.

So I pulled the lenses out of the broken frame and attempted to put them in the old frame with the bad lenses. They were just a tiny bit too small so I got some superglue and MADE them fit....it worked. And the lenses have a gap above and below them and they just look absolutely ridiculous...but it worked.

And I'm a huge dork.

isms

In the car today Caelan started singing to herself (she does this a lot).

Her first song went something like this

If you have to go potty
Then you better hold it in
Then tell your mom and dad
What you have to do

Her second song

The prince saves the princess
Save save me, I don't have a sword
I can't find my sword because the king locked it in his castle

Ainsley told me the other day "Jesus is a boy but we have to like him anyway"

And we discovered the perfect way to improve your child's reading. Give her a microphone and make her play Rock Band.

Random pictures

Hiatus

So in November I called it quits on a lot of things. I quit taking my kids to ballet, I gave up a calling, I stopped going to the park with my friends, I stayed home and I worked and I spent time with my sister because she was getting ready to move again.

So with the holidays over I'm now working full time instead of part time and it's been hard. I'm hoping that the bigger paycheck will prove it completely worth it though so we'll see.

But with the added hours I feel that my house has suffered and my sleep has suffered. I'm not very good at managing my time or managing my life for that matter but I'm trying harder.

Ainsley wanted to go back to ballet but to be perfectly honest, the thought of adding something back INTO life has me a wee bit stressed. Plus with Hanna gone I feel like I need to stop neglecting my friends because I need my friends.

Nothing has really changed with the girls. Caelan loves preschool and Ainsley loves 1st grade and amazes me at how stinking smart she is.

Caelanism: "I am a child of God and he has sent me here, but not you daddy."

She's also obsessed with weddings and asks me daily who she can marry.

Ainsley's still a love bug and is just the sweetest thing ever. She is completely enthralled with animals, stuffed or real, it doesn't matter.

I'll try to get some pictures up later.

Avoidance

There's just a lot going on so it's hard to pick just the few important things to blog about :)

Caelan has been a big handful lately with tantrums and screaming and I'm just struggling with her.

Ainsley is reading EVERYTHING she can get her hands on, street signs, building, books, my t-shirts, the computer screen when I'm typing :), but I love it. She's so stinking smart.

Jim's been working a lot but they are mandating he take at least three vacation days before the end of the year so we're trying to think of something fun/cheap to do.

I've been working extra so that we can spend money on Christmas without it stressing us out.

Pretty much that's the craziness of it.

Here are some pictures I got of Jo this week, she's beautiful!