How to....

keep your sisters out of your room!

no more messing up my Lego's!

The Dilemma

This morning while I was making pancakes I sent the kids off to get dressed for school. Charlotte came out dressed in this and asked if breakfast was ready......she didn't even mention her interesting choice of clothing......

......as if tucking your pants into your knee highs was a perfectly normal thing to do.

I played it off well, but I was racking my brain for a completely unoffensive way to tell her that she might want to reconsider her outfit.

It's a touchy subject with her. A few months ago I told her her clothes didn't match two days in a row. Then she started wanting me to pick out all her clothes (including pajamas). Sounds nice, but I was worried about her self esteem. I thought I had ruined it by telling her that her opinion of what does and does not match was off. Just VERY recently I convinced her to pick out her own outfits again.

But this one.......

Should I just let her wear it? What if she gets made fun of? What if she yells of me when she is older for letting her wear that in public? What if she puts together ensembles like this one everyday?

What would you do?

I miss my babies!!

My Aunt Tree offered to let my three older kids spend the night last night. Nick and I enjoyed the night alone (almost). We really lived it up...... Subway for Dinner....Home Depot.....then the grocery store!!!

After our wild night on the town we went home where Nick made a beautiful fire while I made popcorn and chocolate milkshakes!

Then at 10:30 I started missing my kids.

I couldn't help myself and I had to send Tree an email letting her know that if Elsie woke up at any hour and wanted me I would gladly come and pick her up!

She didn't call.

This morning I woke up and found this in my inbox.

I went and made pancakes for Nick an I (I have tons of leftover batter) and then Nick left for LA to buy a new engine for Maggie. I just laid Lila down for a nap and now I am ALL ALONE!!

Quite often during the day I wish I could be alone for just a couple of hours so that I could get something done with out Elsie tearing the house apart. But now that I have it, I miss them all.

They will be home in a couple of hours so I guess I should get up and clean this house so I can enjoy it before Elsie trashes it once again with play food and baby dolls.

Prayers for Eli

Our friends Tanya and Jason Wedehase are living every parents worst nightmare. Their son was just born with some severe heart problems. They were aware of the situation before he was born, which helps, but this poor little guy has already has one surgery and will need more. Please keep Eli in your prayers as well as the whole Wedehase family. You can read their story on their blog here.

A Day full of Sweets

Happy Valentines Day!

Sisterly Love

We decided to make cookies and the girls were being so cute I had to pull out the camera.

For once they decided to share the stool instead of fight over it!

Here are the YUMMY cookies we made and ate. I am loving the Royal Frosting.

Apples!!

(Charlotte, making peanut butter fudge in her apple skirt, pre hair-cut)

I saw this cute print at the fabric store a few months ago and I loved it. They didn't have much left so I bought the rest. I pulled out one of my Pink Fig pattern (I came across a sale and all of her patterns were half off, I bought 5!) and I had enough to make a skirt for Charlotte and Elsie.

These skirts were so simple to make I almost felt silly for buying the pattern. I did learn how to make a project look more professional and finished though and that alone was worth it.

If you sew you will know how frustrating it was to find this after I was ALL finished.

But I was able to fix it, and now my girls (two of them) have new super cute skirts that we won't see anybody else wearing!

(I have washed and dried these skirts several times and they are holding up beautifully!)

(pics taken with old camera)

What Freeman's do with their spare time