Snow Days!

The weather here is fightful. It has snowed every day this week. Yesterday, they finally closed the schools. It had snowed all day Tuesday and the roads were snow packed and icy. So yesterday the roads cleared and they decided to have school today. It started snowing about 6am. The girls left at 7am, it was bad but the snow still wasn't sticking to the roads. It hasn't snowed a lot but the winds have been blowing. in fact they have been gusting up to 40mph. When my hasband got home he told me there were foot deep drifts on the road. At 10am I went to take my soon to a play date. I couldn't get out of my driveway. I'm snowed in and my kids are at school. Now the schools are going to keep the kids ther for the day because it is supposed to warm a little this afternoon and the winds are supposed to die down. I hope it does!

A different role.

My daugther is having her birthday party right now. She has now reached the age where I am not wanted at her parties. I'm not complaining. It was easy to get ready for this party. All I did was make the cheesecake and pizza. I got to help dish up food and take pictures of opening presents and blowing out candles. Other than that I am expected to stay out of the way. It has been nice. My three little ones are at a friends house and my hubby is at work so I get some time to myself. I am working on my scrapbooking after I finish this blog.
There are a lot of aspects of my daugther getting older that scare me but for the most part I am enjoying the freedom that comes with her getting older. I like that I don't have to do everything for my kids. My youngest will be five next month. It is a whole new world.

Attitude

The attitude has emerged. My princess #1 will be turning twelve next week. She has been very calm and delightful up until now but the other night I got the hints of things to come. We were trying to take pictures of the kids in the their new Christmas PJ's. I'm making a thank you for their nanna who bought the PJs. She has now decided she doesn't like to get her picture taken. She kept shoving any sibling who touched her. The "I am too good for this" attitude came through crystal clear. We finally managed to get a couple of shots but it was a task.

The Tough Call.

Saturday I was faced with one of those truely sad mommy moments. I had to tell my daughter she couldn't go to the movies with friend even though she truely deserved to go and we weren't doing anything better. What made it worse was that daughter #1 was going. Here's the story! We live by a pair of sisters (my age). Each had a daughter that corresponses in age with my oldest two. The two older girls had set up a date to go to the movies. Saturday morning my daughter #2 gets the call to go to the movies. The problem is I don't think that the mom is a responsible driver. She drives too fast and has taken to letting her two daughter, ages 9 and 5 ride in the front seat without seatbelts in a van with air bags. Very Stupid! Suzy (the mom) is divorced and it is like she has given up being a parent all together. She just wants to be her kids friend and they walk all over her. Anyway, I don't want my princess #2 riding with her. So I told her why. She is a very smart child and agreed with my reasoning but I could still tell she was sad. I was sad for her. There aren't any other girls that live around us so it is not like I can tell her to go play with some one else. Most of the time it is not a problem because I like to keep my kids really busy but every so often I have to make the tough call.

Best Laid Plans

I had a scrapbooking party at my house last night. I love to have them because I get to scrapbook and socialize at the same time. However, there are always a lot of treats and snacks around. That makes it hard for a little girl with Diabetes. Last night in a preemptive strike I ended up giving her too much insulin. Then she had to have some candy before bed. She wasn't a bit sad. Needless to say I was up late. My company all left by 11:30pm (the result of the fact that we had all been up a 6am to get kids off to school.) I however stayed up to finish a couple more pages. I thought that I would sleep in today. However, I had to get up at 6:30am to give a little girl a shot and I couldn't go back to sleep. It should be a nice long day today.

Vacation Fun.

Yesterday was an awesome day. I made my hubby take this week off work so we could do some fun things with the kids while they were out of school. However, the first part of the week we spent with the flu. I did however get some good house cleaning done while everyone was sick. Yesterday eveyone was better. We took the kids to the Discovery Center of Idaho. It was great fun. We told the kids that they could stay as long as they wanted. We left when they closed at 5pm and I think they would have stayed longer. They spent an hour pretending to shop. Who knew grocery shopping could be so fun. After we decided to go to dinner and a movie. We went to the bookstore first. Everyone needed a new book. Then Pizza Hut for dinner. The to Mr. Magorium's Wonderful Emporium. The pizza is my hubby and kids favorite. However it does strange things to my little one's blood sugar. I thought I was good when she was in the normal range at midnight but then she shot up in the middle of the night causing her to wet the bed. I just washed all her bedding two days ago because of the flu. Oh well - at least I have a supersize washer.