Dear Journal

Just when I thought we were all better, we went to church.  Church was lovely, and needed, but the germs The Toddler picked up in nursery are not.  I hope the coughs won't persist long enough to merit a doctor's visit.  Which reminds me, I need to go in sometime to see if Little E has athsma.  Poor boy.  We shall see.  Little E lost his first tooth.  Seriously lost it.  His two bottom front teeth have been wiggly for a few months.  He is one of the non-wigglers in the family and refuses to touch them, asking me after lunch and while I read to him to do the job for him.  But he won't let Miss J near, she's a root breaker.  Anyways, we noticed recently that the grown ups had come in BEHIND his two wiggly teeth, creating a bigger wiggling cause.  One tooth was extremely wiggly, and on Sunday evening when we were reading stories and Mr. Man went in to do some serious wiggling, he noticed that the OTHER tooth was gone.  We think the pork chops for dinner may have done it and he just swallowed it.  The kids searched everywhere and then Miss J helped him write a letter about what happened and had Mr. Man and I sign it to verify the veracity of it.  The tooth fairy is very trusting.

Busy time of life right now.  Somehow all of the activities that the kids are doing collided into probably the busiest after-school nights of my life last week.  So not looking forward to high school for that.  Must look into the driving age here and start saving for cheap cars for them to drive themselves around in.  It's a lot.  And I don't even feel like we let them do a lot of extra activities.  This week isn't as bad, and we've been enjoying having our evenings again (even after just one night)- strange how much time the Olympics sucked out of our family, even though we were together watching them.  Our new favourite family activity is to play hide and go seek in the dark in the house.  Flashlights for The Toddler and "the seeker" but other than that it's pretty dark and very exciting.  I actually enjoy the peaceful quiet time when I'm hiding somewhere... as long as the cat isn't attacking me.

Mr. T woke me up yesterday a little too early, but his reason delighted me.  He ran in, excited to declare that he had heard birds chirping and that's what woke him up.  It's been nice and warm lately.  I can't believe 40-50 degree weather feels warm to me now!  And yet we've been going on more walks, playing tag, going to the park and letting the kids ride their scooters around the neighborhood.  I heard that the snow beginning to melt already means that we'll have a dry summer, but it's hard not to enjoy the here and now after such a long winter.  Plus it means I can spray paint soon.  We're going to plant some indoor herbs this week cause I just can't wait for planting season - which may not be till June here.  It's a good homeschooling project too, right?  Little E has thoroughly enjoyed the medal counting and is sad that it's done.  Will have to find something else to "keep track of."

I'm reading "These Is My Words" right now.  Not too far into it.  It's not a sit down and read it in one sitting kind of book for me, but I think I may enjoy it more if I did.  Only reading once or twice a week while I wait for kids in sporting activities isn't enough to really get in to it.  But it's better for my family that way!  I'm a horrible mother and wife when I get a book I love. 

I'm going to try my hand at french bread today and a lovely tomato basil soup for dinner.  We're going to try to get all these girl scout cookies delivered and out of the house before the kids cough all over them and we deliver something else as well.