Vacation Mode

I am having the hardest time getting back into the swing of things. When I wake up in the morning and get Annie off to school, I just want to crawl back into bed with my other two kiddos and go to sleep or read a book (pretty much just be lazy) while they watch TV. However, I have only done this once in the past two weeks despite my desires to do it every day. I hate coming back from vacation for this reason. My kids have adjusted fine, which is nice and makes it easy for me.

A few things have been going on...
One of my friends is doing a picture a day thingy and it sounded like a great idea. So one of my goals this year is to do just that and take at least one picture a day and at the end of the year I'll make a photo album of all my pictures and hopefully it will represent the year well. For instance, I took a picture of Kurt folding the laundry the other night. I want to try and capture my everyday life as best I can...if only I was a good photography it would be even more fun!

I also am in the process of making my past blog posts (about a year and a half) into a book and will then delete them from here. So far I am loving it and it looks great on the computer. I should have it ordered next week sometime. It is taking me forever though. Annie had school canceled today for cold weather (felt like -4 this morning). So it was a perfect day to work on it, since she kept the girls occupied without any fights...amazing! I really do have good girls and they are growing up so fast. I have to remember to be kind and patient with them because I don't want to look back and wonder why I tried to make them "grow up" so fast.

Here's a few of my latest pictures from being back home...of course one of Alyse dressing herself to go to Annie's haircut and looking stylish as ever (today she had on a pink long sleeve shirt with her Halloween shirt on top and orange biker shorts...classic). I finally talked Annie into getting her haircut, in hopes that we wouldn't have so many tangles to comb out in the morning...I love her hair a little shorter like it is now!
There's one more picture of Annie coming off the bus after school and I love it...I can hear the bus when it stops the one stop before Annie's and that's when I go outside and everyday she comes running to me and I pick her up and give her a huge hug...I love it and usually her sisters follow after me without much clothing or shoes on!