Home Alone with 3 Children for 5 Days...

Here is a brief recount of the last 5 days - home alone with 3 children ages 4, 2 1/2 and 11 Months without their beloved Daddy...

I am hoping in the recount of this that it will seem LESS painful to me and MORE hilarious in the day's events.

Sunday night - smooth...

Monday AM - not so smooth, we had children, ALL of them, awake by 5.30AM with the youngest one being the culprit who got everyone else up. Needless to say then, by about 11AM all of them were back down for naps. We had dinner over at cousin's house which was great! And Monday PM was an early to bed night as well.

Tuesday - our nanny went home sick (read earlier post) so I got very little Marina work done and back home for child duties. We had dinner that night at Grandpa & Grandma's house - very helpful. Tuesday PM was a night better left forgotten - the lovely little lady was up from 12.30AM to 2.30AM. We still do not know why, as it seems to be the case most of the time with stuff like this. But I literally tried everything I could think of to help 'solve' the problem, from tylenol to clove oil to music to rocking to blankies, whatever I could try! Thankfully the boys slept through all of that rucous.

Wednesday - supposed to work, but our nanny was still sick. We went to Target to do some errands and shopping right after Lexie's AM nap. While there, the deal on the table was that each boy would be able to purchase 1 affordable Transformers figurine. So we did get through that experience well enough until it came time for lunch. We ate at Target, though the lunch purchasing process we had all sorts of bad behaviour from spitting on one another, tooting and laughing about it, climbing underneath and over top the cart and then Lexie trying to shimmy her way out of the strap at the top of the cart too. We finally got our lunch and sat down to eat. Towards the end of that lunch, Lexie was crawling around underneath the Target eating area tables eating her leftovers off the floor...well somethings are just not worth putting up a fight about after getting limited amount of sleep the night before. We did make it home, new Transformers in tow, happy children off to sleep.

Wed PM - my Mom (the saviour of fhe day!) comes over to bring us some of her leftovers so I don't have to cook and she finally got put away about 6 loads of laundry from Monday. That felt so good to at least get that done. I was supposed to host and lead our homegroup that evening and thankfully got that passed off to my brother-in-law and at their house right next door. All I had to do was to make a dessert :). Homegroup went well and I felt refreshed through it all - talking about the family of God was so encouraging to me! And for myself, i felt so thankful really just to know and experience the family of God that I do through Living Light Christian Church. It's amazing still to me this day that God had in store for me to take me out of the church that I was in and to put in the place where I am today - I am so privileged to be running this race with the fellow believers that I am.

Thursday AM - off to the Knapp's in Racine in the AM to take our eldest boys (Jackson & Josiah) through the church's kid's version of Vision & Commitment. We talked more about the gospel, salvation and Lindsay did a fantastic job of using the bridge illustration over a bucket of mud that the boys got to play with (mud being the very dirty sin and filth that we can fall into unless we take the bridge Jesus!). I am confident in this - that any investment of time we spend in talking to our children about Jesus reaps a hundred fold more than we could ever hope or imagine - even though at times we might not see an immediate response.

Rest of Thursday - I have to work for a bit, get an adj at the chiropractor's and then off to another friend's for dinner....

The icing on the cake - the husband will be home tonight! Myself and the children will be thrilled to have him back and we'll not be likely to let him leave again anytime soon....