Lesson Learned

You know when they say to buy things for your food storage that you USE? Well, you should listen. I wish I had. I don't know if I can even tell you how many jars I had to throw away this past weekend because they had expired. It is so humiliating and depressing I don't even want to think about it. Maybe I will let you all guess how many jars/cans you think I had to throw away.

Why am I telling you all this? No, not so you can all gasp and think I am a total idiot (although I sure feel like one) but so that you don't make the same mistake I did. Granted, my intentions were good. Really good. Before we moved here I wanted a substantial food storage. I got things on case lot sales and even canned a ton at the cannery. The only thing I did wrong was think, "Oh, we'll eat that if we have it." Well, dozens of expired jars of applesauce, not so tasty salsa, soup, and other canned vegetables later we still haven't eaten them and they have to be thrown out.

I am sick about it. I can't believe I had all that food in my pantry and never used it. The other thing we did wrong was that we didn't unwrap the cases after we moved. We had done cellophane wrap all over them in order to get them safely here and then never unwrapped them. Somewhere in my mind I left the hall closet untouched because it was our food storage.It was stored away in my mind for a disaster.  Hello! You are supposed to rotate your food storage so this doesn't happen! Well, now I know you buy what you eat and you get a system that works to rotate the food.

Lesson learned...the hard way.

A little Trick or Treating!

Here are some overdue pictures of Claire and Audrey. Hallie was home sick watching Tinker Bell and was so sad to miss out on all the Halloween fun. :(

Someone asked if her nose was make up or real. Since she was Belle I told people she jumped in front of the Beast when the wolves came. Great story, huh?

I love this of Claire and Audrey. They have so much fun together.
I can't believe how grown up Claire is. She is so big and can't wait to have a baby sister to hold.
Audrey's cut is healing so GREAT! I can't believe it. I'll have to post pictures of what it looks like now. 

Audrey and Gabby held hands the whole night and had so much fun together. 

After we went to dinner at the Hudson's and trick or treating in their neighborhood we went home. Hallie was feeling MUCH better and wanted to put her costume on. We went to a few houses on our street and Hallie was so HAPPY! I'll have to post pics when I get them from Cindy! Man we need a camera.

Julia May

Yep. It's official. We are naming our sweet little baby Julia.  Zeb and I both love the name and I don't see us finding one we like more. I just love it.

I told you when I put my mind to something....

:)

What a Day

On Thursday after getting Claire off to school I was balancing check books and listening to Hallie and Audrey play. We were just about to run errands but the girls were chasing each other and having so much fun. Hallie was running away from Audrey and Audrey tripped and started crying. She was only a few feet away from me. I saw that she was bent over by the frame of the bed and I thought "Oh, she could totally gash her face on the frame." I turn her around to comfort her and blood is pouring out of the bridge of her nose. My fear was true. I grabbed a towel and tried to clean her up and we head to the ER. That was visit 1. 

Poor Audrey had 3 stitches in her nose since the cut was too close to her eye to do the glue. She was a trooper and was so brave. When I had to leave for x-rays she did great. They actually told me she was the best patient they had had all day. When they wrapped her up in the sheet she was great. It wasn't until the shot and stitches that the crying came. It was so sad. I sang her popcorn popping and tried to distract her. Luckily Jana came to help with Hallie so she didn't have to witness the traumatizing stitching. (Thanks for the advice on that one Ang). 2 hours later we were back at home and getting ready for nap time.

Hallie was still not feeling very good so I took just Claire to gymnastics. After dropping her off in her Halloween costume I picked up Zeb who is studying for finals. When we swung by the gym to get Claire on the way home the car battery ended up dying. Thank goodness Zeb was with me. It was a quick jump and we were on our way.

Just after dinner I got the girls ready for bed and Hallie started crying and moaning. Her tummy was making her miserable. I have never seen her like this. She wasn't throwing up, it was the other stomach problems. Anyway, it got worse and worse and Zeb and I thought I should take her to the ER. Trip number 2. 

At 9:00 we took off and the Doctor ran a bunch of tests. They gave her an IV just to get more fluids in her and did blood work. When she needed x-rays,  again I had to leave. She was about to freak out but I explained that it wasn't safe for the baby. She realized she needed to be brave and she did great. All the tests and x-ryas were normal, she just has a virus. We didn't get to leave until after 1:00 in the morning. 

After 2 visits to the ER, a dead car battery, and a husband studying over 15 hours for finals I would say my day was a little exhausting.

Nap anyone?

*The pictures are horrible since they were taken with my camera phone but my fam wanted pictures. ;)