New Digs

The good:

• Work was relatively painless today.
• The election worker training was shorter than I expected.
• The kids were actually happy to see me when I picked them up. Not a peep about "Buuuuutttttt Moooommmmmm, I don't wanna leave yet...."
• Frozen pizza for dinner=no whining for dinner.
• Ice cream for dessert.
• Kids that actually helped wash dishes to get said ice cream. ;)
  

The bad:

• My dishwasher fix was short lived. The damn thing is toast.
• The overflowing sink full of dishes that had to be done.

The ugly:

• The 6-foot radius of Corelle plate splinters on the floor. Luckily Devin was okay, since she fell into the mess.

The best:

• Teaching Maiya how to give and receive "thumb kisses."
• Teaching Devin and Maiya how to wink, then cracking up at their attempts. Devin can't do it with her mouth closed. And Maiya? She just blinks really, really hard then laughs her infectious little 18 month old laugh...
• Watching Trent try to teach his sisters how to wink, since he is such an *old pro* at it.

I need to make an appointment for Maiya to have her 18 month pictures taken...I also need to get her measured and marked on the kitchen doorway. Wonder if anyone would notice a missing piece of doorway when we ever sell the house...? All three kids get measured and marked twice a year.

It doesn't look like the guest room is going to be finished in time for the carpet job. That just means that I get to move all the toys downstairs, where they won't have a home for right now. More stuff to trip over. I'll do the major cull and clean out of them when the kids are away for the week.