Okay I made it... and I am here

Thankfully it was only 1 migraine. I made it through the three birthdays, I made it through the stores opening, I made it here. (although I still don't have a sign up on the building :-0)

So I have four glorious days off! Hallelujah! Jason is off hunting, he just left and I don't know when he will be back, hopefully by Sunday, but his tag is for a week, so it could be longer. Hopefully not too long, it is really hard being here with all the kids alone.

I am going to spend the weekend cleaning out the office/guest room, and maybe mowing our front acre, if someone will loan me a ride on mower. There is a huge oak desk I want to get out of there, but it weighs about 150lbs, and so I am either going to throw it out the window and break it, or try somehow to get it down the stairs. Should be interesting. My sister and her family are going to be staying with us for Thanksgiving, so I am really trying to get their living area nice for their visit. I am so excited that they are going to stay with us, because they usually stay with my parents, but finally we have room for them and it's going to be so fun. Mary (my sister) was such an awesome hostess when we visited them at their Moser bay house, I mean she baked cookies like every day, and when I was sick the last two days, she made me wonderful thermos's of tea and brought them to our little cabin and let me take a nap. It was absolutely wonderful! Except for the bear that almost ate us in our little cabin.

For Cliahs birthday I did a room makeover. I love doing those. I got her a new queen size bed, and Grandma Holloway got her a new comforter set. It is pink with brown and white stripes. So I painted one wall of her room the same color pink, then I made a brown and pink stripe border on the same wall. I got her a few new things also, like a rope ladder that goes up to her loft and a new mirror and a few other things. I will post pictures later.

About every two years, she requests a room makeover for her birthday, which is fine with me, because I absolutely love doing it. Her room came out really nice. She had her two friends from school sleep over, Jill and Kayla, they are the only girls in her grade. She has a total of 7 kids in her grade. It's a really small school.

On another note she just started ADHD medication. I have been resisting it for years, but I feel like I have no other choice. She has been to the phsychologist, the neurologist, and all the teachers and experts agree. She has a serious attention problem. I just pray that this medication works, because I feel like it is my last hope at getting Cliah better.

Mayleen had her first birthday on October 4th. She is such a smart baby, she tries to say some of her abc song and can say "taint chew" (thank you) "uh-oh", "mom", "gamma" (Grandma). She is trying to catch up to Mattie who is only a year and a half older. Both Mattie and May are such sweet girls. I cannot believe that I have three daughters!

Mattie is such a little talker. I just can't believe some of the things she says to me and things she says to other kids as well. She has a friend Madeline who is 2 also, but 4 months younger, and Mattie is on the floor with her trying to teach her how to do a puzzle. You cannot even understand Madeline when she talks, and Mattie is there saying, "No, turn it around". I think being a middle child has helped her progress quicker. I just cut her hair in a bob and it is soo cute. She has such thin blonde hair, when it was long it was always tangled and Mattied. Sorry.

Roman of course is completely going nuts because Halloween is for sale in every store. Poor guy, he doesn't even know why he loves Halloween so much, and it is all because of the Wizard of Oz. He watched it when he was two and was bewitched by the Wicked Witch of the West. When he was 3 he wanted to dress like a witch and play like he was the WWOTW (wicked witch of the west). I thought there was no harm, that is until Halloween came around and he wanted to be guess what for Halloween? That's right a wicked witch. So we went to Mt. Vernon with Roman dressed like a witch, and he loved it! Oh, everyone thought that he was the cutest little witch ever! So that is how Halloween became such a fascinating holiday for little Roman. He is going as a werewolf this year, I said absolutely no more dressing like witches. Although, whenever I cannot find my broom, I know who has it.

So that is it. I am updated, I just need to post some pictures and I will post pictures later, as my camera is currently on it's way to Flagstaff Unit 5B south to take pictures of a dead cow elk (hopefully).

Love,
Colleen