This morning the kids got to school late again. I took them to the library yesterday after school for a pretzel-making program (they played on the playground at school before we went). We stayed there a bit so it was late by the time we got home and they had to start homework and eat and get ready for bed and I just had a hard time helping everyone get settled and get to bed and it was getting late. Husband luckily got here but not till about 9:30 because he had church meetings after work. So it was 10pm by the time people were getting to bed and I was so tired I just cleared the dirty dishes out of the sink (which I was pretty proud of myself for doing at least) and went straight to bed. But I knew it may be hard in the morning to get things ready on time because I hadn't gotten things ready before I went to bed. And I woke early morning with #5 (4mo girl) and was up a bit thinking so I was tired in morning and didn't get up till husband woke me at 7:45 and didn't get kids up till 8:15, so obviously they were late for school (which starts at 8:30).
BUT, there were definitely good things that happened in the course of us setting ourselves up to get the kids to school late this morning, so I wasn't as discouraged about it this today as I might usually be. The kids really enjoyed the library program, afterward #1, 8yo girl, checked out 12 books including Horrible Harry, Puppy Place, Jokes & Riddles; #2, 6yo boy, checked out a Star Wars book - new interest of his, #3, 4yo girl, checked out two Dora books, #4, 2yo girl, almost chose Dora and a pony book, #5, 4mo girl, didn't check out anything. This morning Husband hugged me and talked to me about some of the reasons he loves me - he said he is grateful I am not trying to pursue other interests and instead just focus on and am satisfied having my focus be the kids.
Tonight we took a family outing to buy a tv! I felt like we were in a different era. :) Like we were taking a family drive down to the electronics store to buy our family's very first tv and our kids had never seen one before or something. :) It was pretty funny. It's particularly funny I think because we really never have purchased a brand new tv before. This is the first brand new tv we've bought in our marriage of 10 years. :) Pretty funny. Our first tv my brother purchased for us as a wedding gift. We sold it when we moved 4 years later. Then a few years ago we paid my husband's friend $100 for the couch and analag tv they were getting rid of so we'd have a tv when we moved here. We have kept that tv downstairs and we have used it to watch DVD's and VHS tapes. We haven't had any other tv's in the house we have used. So when Husband told #3 "We're going to buy a tv!" She said "Ware!? It's just like I dreamed!" (I guess she really did have a dream where we had a tv in the living room or something like that). Then she said "So a kid could actually walk into the living room and turn on a tv?" :) or something of that sort. Pretty funny.
So we went to Costco, then Walmart, then Best Buy. The kids were pretty good sports. We pushed everybody in two carts in Costco and Walmart and #2 figured out ways to climb in and out and made up a game of sorts. In Costco we ate at the food court. #2 & #3 were fighting about who got to sit by me and who got to sit in the cart I was pushing. I thought it was pretty sweet but didn't like the fighting. I did figure they certainly won't always fight about that, so I appreciated it and tried to give them both attention and hugs and tried to manage the whining patiently as best I could. #5 slept a while but then woke and my husband carried her around and the other kids switched carts and were back and forth and climbing around etc.
