Last week I had three extra kids for five days while my friend Karen was on a cruise with her husband! She watched my children last fall while Jon and I were in Cancun, so it was payback time! They are great girls and some of my kids' bestest friends!
That was good and bad because some nights they were having a little TOO much fun! Two of the nights they slept with their friends and two of the nights they were separated! On the friend nights unfortunately they went to bed late (Sorry Karen) because they were either talking under the covers, playing DS (Brinley finally gave her DS to me because it was too tempting!) reading books, or looking at Morgan's earrings! I had great plans on doing fun things with the girls each day/evening but I did nothing!!! We didn't even have FHE! Yikes! But this is what I did:.....
That was good and bad because some nights they were having a little TOO much fun! Two of the nights they slept with their friends and two of the nights they were separated! On the friend nights unfortunately they went to bed late (Sorry Karen) because they were either talking under the covers, playing DS (Brinley finally gave her DS to me because it was too tempting!) reading books, or looking at Morgan's earrings! I had great plans on doing fun things with the girls each day/evening but I did nothing!!! We didn't even have FHE! Yikes! But this is what I did:.....Read H & M books every night
Helped R, B, E, B with homework daily
Made sure we kept on track with the BOM reading
Read with Brinley and Rae everyday for 20 minutes
Did 15 loads of laundry
Tucked the girls into bed every night with songs and back tickling
Gave 10 baths
Braided 5 heads of hair
Made 24 + lunches over the course of four days
Entertained the kiddos since we had a half day on Wednesday
Drove to Basketball practice and Ballet
Had an extra Bball practice, choir concert and dance festival hence I hired a Babysitter
Plus endless cleaning, teaching, refereeing, blogging, and late night TV watching!
I was pooped by the time Friday came! That is when I visited Sonic for a big 44 oz to reward myself for a Job Well Done! I also decided that five kids is a Breeze and I never want to have three sets of twins! We'll have another visitor this week, Avery Dustin, while her parents are in Arizona. Just call our house the Party House! Never a dull moment here at the Jackson's!
4 comments:
Yep! You have the party house and we love it! Good job last week!
I so Know where to send my kids....
Hurrah for energy! You're definitely full of it! I remember an experience I had in Michigan years when I was getting John Olsen up from a nap when I was watching him for a few hours. It was at that moment that I realized that you really can love other people's children. It was a sweet moment.
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Your home has always been a favorite for my kids when we've left them in your care. The Jackson's know how to party....and make yummy treats :>
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