Only The Best Caramel Apples Ever!

An Apple.

Caramel.

Milk Chocolate.

Peanut Butter.

Dark Chocolate.

White Chocolate.

Sprinkles.

Could there be anything better?

Happiness is also.....

Snuggling with a sweet newborn cuddled up on your chest and smelling her sweet little head while she sighs on your shoulder.

Happiness is also watching her do the same thing to Daddy.


I have a birth story coming. But I'm waiting for some birth photos to make it complete. We are enjoying every minute of our sweet little girl.

Happiness is....

Sitting on the couch at night, reading a good book, and listening to my 3 daughters upstairs in their room giggling uncontrollably with each other before falling asleep.

Sharing a favorite website of mine...

I love this website! It's called Paper Back Swap and it's great!

The premise is that you can share your old books with others and earn credits to order from others. You start out with 3 credits and can order from a huge list of books people are looking to trade. When you order, they will send you your book absolutely FREE (well, it costs you a "credit").

In order to earn more credits, you can post your own already-read books. When another member would like your book they send a request and you send it to them. You send it media mail so it only costs about $2.00. When they receive it, you earn another credit towards a book order. If you don't want to get rid of your old books, you can purchase credits. I believe they are about $4....so pretty darn cheap!

The reason I love this website is because it's cheaper than buying the books new, (heck, it's cheaper than buying it at a used book store most of the time), they have almost every book you could want AND you don't have to worry about getting them back to the library or having any fees for keeping them as long as you'd like.

www.paperbackswap.com

I'd almost forgotten about this website. But after spending an hour in the library with my kids, not finding ANY of the books I'd wanted to find, and then trekking up to the counter, books in hand, only to find out I had $20 of late fines I had to pay in order to take the books home, I left empty handed and disappointed. I returned home, remembered about Paper Back Swap and realized I had 6 credits to use up! I already have some books on their way to me! Woot!

School Conferences

The girls had conferences today. Emilee and Megan got glowing reviews from their teachers as always. Their teachers gushed about how much they love having them in class and how well they do with their work and help out.

Emilee
Emilee's teacher just thinks she has a great personality and is a terrific reader. Although we just started 4th grade, she's reading at a 5.5 reading level, which is approximate to 5th grade, 5th month of the school year. She says she's blessed to have Emilee in her class. Go Emilee!

Megan
Megan's teacher says that Megan can almost beat her at her math facts. Apparently Megan loves to race to do the Math pages with her teacher and can almost beat her! And not only does she do them fast, but they're always 100% correct. Her reading teacher says that Megan "is a riot" and has an excellent retell ability for her stories. You rock, Megan!

Melia
Melia, Melia, Melia. How I love you. lol
Melia is my "free spirit" as her teacher called her. She's not reading yet, but apparently neither is most of her class. She's doing well, although she has some attention issues. She gets distracted very easily. But even that has improved I guess. She's a cutie, that's for sure.
And........drumroll please......she is being kicked out of speech therapy! She no longer needs it for atriculation, and she communicates well when she needs something (well, as well as any 5 year old with her stubborn personality does). Way to go, Melia!

Can't be TOO much longer...

I really thought I'd have this baby earlier than my others. I could feel in in my bones.

Apparently my bones are lying to me.

But the good news is that there's no WAY it can be too much longer, right?

I just want to meet this sweet little baby girl. And find out if she has hair, and what color it is and if she'll have full lips like Melia.

So we wait....and wait...and wait some more.

I have the best kids in the world!

I know you may think you do, but I can prove it.

I was really looking forward to having a nap today. I stayed up way too late last night partying with a few friends for my good friend Sarah's birthday and I was tired today! Then, minutes before laying down, the school called because Melia wasn't feeling well. The school worker said, "She has a fever. It's 98.8 so it's really getting up there."


Uh....hold up. 98.8? Hahahahahahaa. Ok.....so....hahahahahahaha.

So does she....hahahahahaha.

Sorry, I just can't control myself. Wow, my children have had high fevers for 10 years!

I went and picked her up ("fever" and all!) because she had been moaning and complaining of not feeling well in the middle of the night last night. Got her home, she had a nice big bathroom trip and all was well. She's not sick. But nevertheless, I did not get my nap.

So this afternoon, I lamented my lack of nap to my oldest daughter Emilee. She told me to go take a nap and she'd "take care of everything" for me. I informed her that I had just cooked 6lbs of hamburger that needed to be separated and wrapped and put in the freezer, 3 loads of laundry that needed to be folded and put away and that their chores needed to be done for day. She said she'd take care of it all and was super excited to be "in charge" if I went to bed. Megan offered to cook dinner if Daddy didn't when he got home.


So to bed I went. I woke up almost 3 hours later. The laundry is done (with the exception of my clothes). The bathroom is tidied. The dishwasher was run. The hamburger was wrapped and put in the freezer. The entertainment center was organized and dusted.

I love my kids. Seriously....I think I may squish them so hard their eyeballs will pop out. What did I do to deserve such totally awesome children?