Need a little R&R

The last couple of weeks have been some of the most stressful weeks in our lives. To make a long, long, convoluted story very short, my husband has been offered more than one very lucrative job. He doesn't make decisions easily or well, so this has been difficult. He wasn't even looking for a job. An old co-worker called him up and asked for his resume because he knew of a position that was open, and one thing led to another, and then another, and boom. Quandary time. He has more or less made a decision, it's a decision he is happy with, so I'm happy. But I can't tell you about it yet.

For the past week we got about 28 hours of sleep combined. Doesn't sound too bad until you do the math and realize we got an AVERAGE of 4 hours of sleep a night. We got snowed in this past weekend and it really wasn't a big deal to us because we needed a weekend to nap and rest and play computer games and just wallow around in our jammies. Now we've got more snow coming tonight and now they're saying more this weekend, and I'm about done with snow. We have one more snow day, I think, before we have to start making it up at the end of the year, or cut short spring break or something (which, they'd better not). I think I remember we used to have a lot more snow days available to us when I was a kid. Now they have fewer snow days, more teacher in-service days, and the kids are learning less. Messed up.

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My cousin had a baby about a week and a half ago and I went to the hospital to see them. The baby is the cutest little thing, just teeny (at a hair over 6 pounds), and I was marveling over that. My cousin's husband said something to the effect of had I forgotten about what they were like when they were that little and I said, honey, my babies were NEVER that little. Nemo was my smallest at 7 lbs. 10 oz., not small by any means, and Trout was my biggest at 8 lbs. 9 oz.

My cousin is doing a hybrid of nursing and bottle feeding and when the nurses brought the baby in the room she was gnawing at her hand pretty fierce, so they decided to feed her a bottle and I got to be the one to feed her! I guess her sisters, who were both there too, decided they'd have plenty of chances to feed her later but I wouldn't, so I got to give the baby her second meal of life. I can't tell you how honored I was.

It was funny, she was lovely and cuddly and new and smelled yummy, and she made those awesome little baby eating noises and I reveled in it, just wallowed, but when she was done and I had burped her? I was so happy to hand her back to her mama. I hadn't known how I would react, because a time or two over the last three to five months I'd been having those pangs. You know those pangs. Those baby lusty feelings. And while I knew my tubal after Nemo was necessary, I couldn't handle another pregnancy, no one told my ovaries that and they control those hormones that control those emotions, so I've been struggling a bit over whether or not our family is complete with four little fishies. But now I've been tested and you know what? It so is.

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So! I'm about to get snowed in with 4 kids 10 and under for several days. I don't want it to be non-stop Wii/tv/computer/DS time, and they don't really have the proper snow clothes to all spend hours outside. What are your favorite indoor activities for a passel of kids? Preferably something that doesn't involve Thomas the Tank Engine.

Comments

[jodifur]

movies and popcorn and wii of course. But Michael is currently "grounded." Which for himmeans no screens. So tomorrow is going to SUCK.

Congrats to your husband.

[angi]

fun to come visit again, I've been a bad bad blogger lately! I was just searching for some fun ideas too as we've been dealing with all of that snow too :( I think tomorrow we may try to make snow ice cream...never tried that before!

[FishyGirl]

Thats a good idea, Angi, maybe well try that when we can get thru the door!