Too much to do and not enough time!

I am sure that I am not alone with this one. Jay is currently in MN training for his deployment. Having him gone this week has been interesting. As you may know, since moving to Arizona he has been gone a lot more than usual. This really frustrates me becuase we were led to believe that this would not be the case. But really there is not anything we can do about it so we deal with it. Anyway, I think that knowing he is deploying has led me to look at my schedule and try to figure out ways to do things differently so that while he is away the kids will survive me. LOL. :> I have no answers yet, but hopefully soon. I am really good at trial and error so we will see what I come up with. I have also decided that the house needs some rearranging as the kids have gotten to where if I am upstairs they want to be down, if I am downstairs they want to be up. I currently allow no toys downstairs but I am thinking that I am going to have to change that so that I can keep my eyes on them a little better.

(This is Bryan and Cassie cleaning out the pond after they threw rocks and sand in it.) This is also one of their favorite things to do while mom is running (and I do mean running) to the bathroom.
I am not sure what it is, but when I am very busy and need to be very productive the kids are much more mischievous than "normal". The other day in order to get something done I put on a movie that was streaming from Netflix. I had Jay hook my computer up to the big screen TV so all the kids could watch it. As you can see from the picture the kids thought it was much more "cool" to watch the computer. They are such funny little people.

The other day I was trying to do too many things and everything that I touched or did was deleted, lost or destroyed. Not kidding. I was trying to get Christmas cards made and I spent hours on the computer and the site locked up and I lost it all. So then I was working on a Christmas present for Grandparents and again, spent three hours working and working..... only to have my computer lock up and lose it all. I had been hopeful that it would have saved since I had saved it at least once..... no not that lucky. :<

Tonight the kids got to break one of my big rules. No eating in front of the TV or on the coffee table. But since I was in the middle of one of our projects and the table was full they got to break the rules. I actually think they loved it. As you can see I could not even get their attention to take a picture. (well at least not all of them.)


In other news , I took Hunter back to the doctor today for his broken arm. It is healing nicely and he has been in a cast for five weeks now. However, the x-rays still showed the break nicely. The doctor did talk about putting him in a brace for three weeks. But once he remembered that I have five boys under 7 and I reminded him that I would much rather be "safe" than "sorry" he put him back in a cast for three weeks. Much better for me. This place is great for kids though because they get to choose their casts. Hunter chose this one so that he could be like "Daddy". It takes us 45 minutes to get to him so that is not an easy or quick trip for us. I did ask him if he would do preventative casts and just fully cast all of my kids for the next three months. LOL. He did chuckle about that one, however one of his nurses told me that would be considered child abuse. I am not sure if she was just having a bad day or if she could not tell that I was kidding.

Well my friends, since it is almost 1am I must head to bed. Or when that alarm goes off at 6 I will not be able to get up. Sleep well and have a fabulous Friday!!