Typical school week.

We are a month into 1st grade, it now feels like we never had the summer off. The familiar school activities and schedules are in full swing. I have a love hate relationship with school. I am pretty sure (know) I would hate the girls not having some way to occupy their time on a daily basis. At the same time I miss being able to pick up and go when we want. Soccer starts tomorrow, practice is on Sunday's and games on Saturday's. There goes our weekends, and this is why I LOVE SUMMER. Even though season wise nothing compares to fall.

A typical school day starts with getting up (me) at 5:30 getting in the shower, then making as much noise as I can packing the girls lunch to wake them. Next it is a mad dash of getting three girls out the door for our day. I can't complain about afternoons, most of the time I am home by 3:45 this makes me very happy. We relax, make dinner pick up the house and spend time together.

Tonight the girls took a bath, we gave up on baths a few years back. The girls hated taking them together, filling the tub twice and fighting with them to get out was too time consuming for our busy schedules. Plus it was one more thing on the list of things the girls needed assistance with. I can say, "go take a shower" and after complaining and fighting over who goes first they take a shower all by themselves! Yay. Tonight I used TONS of bubbles and let the girls play for a while. They fought over space and splashed all over the bathroom, reminding me of why they no longer take baths. Next time I am letting them take one seperate, because you are never too old for a bath.

After a bath I decided to take on trimming their hair. This has needed to be done for a while but I have put it off partially because I am too cheap to pay 40 bucks for their hair to be trimmed plus I wanted a TINY trim. Every time I say just a trim the hair dresser gets all scissor crazy on me and takes off more then I wanted. Surprisingly it was easy as pie and their hair turned out just fine. The girls don't have really straight hair but it is not curly by any means. If I was to wash it and let it air dry it would have poof and a little curl to it. I straighten their hair some times ( I know, pathetic) if I put curling cream in it when it is still wet they can pull off curly hair.  I wish sometimes they had, comb, clip and go hair but they don't.

Today was a special day for Ry... as you can see. She was so proud! I love seeing all the school work come home. There is a big difference in school work between Kindergarten and 1st grade.

Ry's apple tree.

Another favorite thing to do during the week it bust out the crock pot. It is not an easy task, this has to be done in the morning. Some mornings there is just not enough time, no matter how I plan on making time. The days I do get to it makes a world of difference on the back end. Today I made spaghetti sauce and it was yummy! All I had to do was cook some paste and garlic bread and a delicious dinner was made!

The many faces of my silly girls.

Doop was not feeling her best tonight. Poor kid. She begged for ibuprofen and TV. 

The best part of being home so early is the girls actually have time to play.

This was a completely random and unedited post, I had good intentions but I am so tired I couldn't find the effort I wanted to put into this blog. Oh well. It is another post of memories, glorious or not. Now it is time to climb in bed and watch some TV. I usually don't watch TV but it is too early to sleep and my body can't take not being in bed right now. I feel like I have run a marathon today.