Friday, April 30, 2010

Good morning!


I'm wondering how I can build a sustainable, loving relationship with my hubby. Here's how our days look right now. The kids wake us up. Shanon or I make the coffee, listen to the mumbles and grumbles of everyone squirming out of bed...except Bailey. She loves the mornings, she sings and screams her morning songs - it's my favorite. That, and coffee. If there is no coffee to look forward to, I have a hard time wanting to move at all. Laying there after being nursed on all night makes me want to squeeze my eyes shut just a few seconds more. Unless there is coffee, with cream and agave nectar of course.
Next Shanon gets on the computer to check stuff. Facebook, the chicken forum, ect. ect. Shanon or I make breakfast for the kids, which lately includes cold cereal. Then Colton is off to school and Alex gets to wash the morning dishes. Mostly a challenge. I mean it's fun playing in the water. Not washing the dishes, but playing in the water. It may take the next thirty minutes for him to get the dishes done. Bailey and I go to work at the B&B. Shanon gets Alex out the door, to the bus stop and he is at work by 7:30.
Bai is great at the B&B again, a morning person by trade she sings and screams until everyone is awake and telling her what a great baby she is. Smiling at her while she pretends to be shy and blush away. She loves talking with people as I cook breakfast and serve the coffee. It's good for her. I get as much as I can done before she needs me again, which ironically is right around the same time that everyone is ready to eat. If I can get everyone served within fifteen minutes it's wonderful. Things usually work out perfect timing there. I love the variety of guests that come through. And I love that they all eventually leave to. It gives me the spice I need in my life. Most of the guests are couples. I get to see how they interact with each other and I aspire for what I want in my relationship at home. I ask questions, and listen attentively to their responses. Imagining what it's like in other people's lives. This job is probably really good for me too.
After the rooms are clean we head home to attend to our home. Laundry, any remaining dishes, eat lunch, decide what's for dinner, change the diaper, nurse, go to the grocery store, lay down for an afternoon nap, that sort of thing.
Colton is the first to get home at 3 p.m. Then Shanon at 3:30. Alex around 3:45. If there is time, and the weather permitting, we will go out to the garden and water the plants, turn on the water for the lawn.
Shanon will get on the computer to check the regulars. He thinks I'm jealous of his friends and of his computer time. But really I just want to spend time with him. It seems we could be closer. I know we have three kids, and they all have needs and I do to. I don't feel like I nag. It seems to me with all the guests that I've seen come through that it would be possible to feel a deeper connection. I know there are 'those' that don't. I don't want to be a 'those'. Is that wrong?
I'll make dinner around 5 and we eat around 6. Movie after that. Then bed.
Pretty standard really.
I know I have a really great life. Finally some established roots. Feels awesome. There is a flower that wants to bloom but I don't know what kind of nourishment it needs to flourish. I'm not giving it what it needs. I hope the knowledge comes to me soon, I would love to get started right away.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Colton at his Concert

Doesn't he look handsome? I was so proud.

Aren't they cute?

My Boys....
Run boys, run.....
Alex 6 1/2


I know I'm not writing much in these posts but it's only because I have a very social little girl who wants to have her mind stimulated often. Any suggestions???

Our little Bailey Cakes


Thinking...thinking....

All smiles for the camera


Um...
What is this stuff?
I don't know how I got both Meow and Bai to look at the same time.
Well, Hello! Fancy seeing you here.

I caught a bee!

Huh?

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Days gone by

Our boys are getting big, and Bai will be 6 months on Sunday. I can't believe it. It is also our one year anniversary on Sunday. Amazing how the dates work out.

I love my little family. If only I could show them just how much they mean to me.

The only thing I really get upset about is when it seems that Shanon and I aren't spending enough time together. If that's my biggest complaint, I guess that's o.k.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Colton playing the flute

This is Colton playing the flute for Bailey and I. He is really enjoying taking band in seventh grade. Being musically inclined is one of his many talents.

Alex making Bailey laugh




(Don't mind the dry wall mud on our wall...it's been a long process and there are still so many little details that we have yet to get to, although this one is very important to me. The bedroom is supposed to be your own little sanctuary right?)

New Chicks - what a difference a few weeks make

Four new chicks (the fourth is on the bottom left side)


One of our silver laced wine dots, and a new little gray Leghorn. These two took together like mommy hen and baby chick.

Look at how Colton and the silver laced wine dot are looking at each other....haha. I think Colton was really tired. No sleep sleep-overs will do that.


And of course a couple pictures of Bailey for good measure.
She's contemplating life.




All in a weeks work...


Learning to sit up can be soooo tough.
But she is doing so well.

Her foot and favorite play thing.


Chicken coop project, days before the killing. I know it's not the best looking coop, but it will do until we can put more energy into a more beautiful one.

P.S. Notice Aspens interest.



My favorite picture, Daddy's little princess.
Roses from the daddy.....I Love them!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Five Chickens....gone

Aspen got in the coup yesterday afternoon. She killed five of the seven chicks that were exactly four weeks old yesterday. They just learned how to climb up to the Roost.

Colton and I had come back from the store with dinner when we saw Shanon come out with a look of severe distress. When I asked him what had happened he said that Alex woke him up saying Aspen was killing the chicks. I guess she was having a ball doing it too. He ran out there and pulled her out of the coup. Three were already gone, and the other two so hurt that he had to take their head off.

I am grateful that I didn't have to see that.

What did we get for dinner you ask? Fried Chicken....