Are You Going to Cook?

Just about every day after naps Kaylee asks me, "Mom, are you going to cook or are we going to a restaurant?"  Then I get, "Awwwhhhh, we haven't been to a restaurant in a looonnnngggg time...."

Well, goes to show I'm cooking more, but my cooking is apparently subpar to restaurant meals...  I'm still working on it.  I have to say I made a pretty rockin' meatloaf last night if I do say so myself.

For all the Mom's out there with little ones that tip toe around when the baby is sleeping...  a day will come when you can shoot off fireworks and the kids still won't want to get up.  I don't know when that day came in our home, but it's been here for a while now.  I wake the kids every morning at 7:00 (because we still nap/have quiet time 2 hours in the afternoon) and it generally takes me 10 to 20 minutes to get everyone moving.  I sing, I rub, I tickle and I tease and even sometimes carry limp bodies down to the sofa before I'm able to get everyone alert.  I alway knew a time would come when I'd have kids complaining that they don't want to wake up and one day you will have it as well.  In the meantime tiptoe, tiptoe, tiptoe and know it will get easier.

Yesterday afternoon I found Addison in the playroom "pretending school" and trying to teach her dog to read...