I Have Learned

• that even if I live in a state wherethesundon’tshine {no, but seriously, we won’t see the sun here for months in the winter} daylight savings still effects people.
• that it was d-u-m-b to try to start potty training Spencer the week of daylight savings.
• Meg and Spencer are the dream team to have at home.  Some mornings, it’s like I don’t even have to parent.  You know why?  Because they’re playing.  They’re not fighting, asking for treats, wanting to do a craft, begging to go to the store, or wondering when we’re going to have friends over.
• that just because your husband orders something from Dr. Adorable, that doesn’t mean it’s a gift for you.  It’s probably just liquid seaweed for the fruit trees.
• some days are easier than other days.
• eight year olds can throw tantrums.  Throwing pillows, sobbing on the couch, stomping around, slamming doors kind of tantrums.
• that I don’t get paid enough to field those kind of tantrums.
• that Adeline just adds an ‘e’ to the end of a word if she doesn’t think it looks right without one or just because.
• that Meg will take payment in chicken feathers for helping Adeline clean out her chicken coop. 
• apparently I’m over zealous in my reward system for Meg and will now be resorting to chicken feathers.
• Spencer can whack Bennett on the head with a toy broom, while I’m in the same room, just feet away.
• I feel like the world’s worst mother when those type of shenanigans are taking place.
• I am apt to eat two pieces of candy every time I walk by the Halloween bowl.
• that this house is pretty tiny when everyone’s home in the evening.
• that this house is pretty big when I have to clean it.

 

{Spencer with his tractor watching Dad on his.}

 

{Bennett had on a Halloween outfit with a little Frankenstein on the bum.}

{What the kitchen looks like while I’m making dinner.}

Katie