Overdue Update

Gosh, I've been a bad blogger lately - sorry everyone!

Things have been SO incredibly busy and hectic here.

This week was the "All-4-Kids" Consignment Sale at a local Church. I have worked at this sale as a seller and/or volunteer for almost 10 years now. It happens twice a year, and it is always a busy week.

I spent the whole week getting stuff ready to sell and then I usually work at least one volunteer shift during the sale. This way I get to go to the pre-sale, which is where you find the really, really great deals. I always buy ALL the children's "stuff" for the year - shirts, pants, shoes, church clothes, belts, winter coats, etc - at this sale. Some years are better than others, but this year was GREAT! I got *everything* for six children, including a new exersaucer for Gamma Ray [since ours has completely worn out and is in pieces currently after all these babies that have used it! LOL!] for under $500. And it is all "like new" name brand stuff - I was VERY pleased! And so were the kids...

I always take the kids with me to the Sale on the Friday morning when it opens to the public and they can spend their own money to buy toys or books there. This has been great for them - they have really learned the value of their money this way [totally unintentional on my part]. Often I will hear them say something like "I could get that for $2-3 at the Kid Sale, why would I pay $30 for it at Target?!!". Which I just love. :)

The pregnancy is still going amazingly well - no blood pressure problems yet. We are 31 and 1/2 weeks now. I took the yucky Glucose Tolerance Test this past week and failed it again [marginally, again] and now I have to take the 3 hour one [AGAIN] and I just hate that. I have to do that tomorrow, and it usually makes me feel really sick for a day or two afterwards. :( :(

We have two new chicks - I bought a dozen Rhode Island Red eggs from eBay and had the worst hatch ever from those eggs - a bunch of them were crushed in the mail to start with because the seller didn't package them well, and then only 3 of them hatched and one of those died almost immediately after it hatched [very sad]. I won't be using that seller again for sure, but the two surviving ones we got really are very cute. :)

I have a lady who is coming to get our four crowing rooster chicks [nobody told them they weren't supposed to crow until they were 19-20 weeks old - they all started by 13 weeks!]. We were planning to eat them, but have decided to give them away instead for now. [Basically, I have no clue how you slaughter a rooster and I don't have time to learn at this present moment!].

My husband has been really, really sick with a cold/flu thing for the last few days. I thought I was catching it, but mine ended up just being a regular cold, thank goodness, and I feel better now already.

I am getting really, really excited about the baby now. I bought her some sweet little clothes at the Kid Sale and a couple of little toys...[aren't baby clothes just the most adorable thing?!!!] so now I have "stuff" for her and her arrival seems "real" to me now... and I'm so excited to meet her! So far she has been a very calm "in utero" baby - I'm anxious to see if that turns out to be her personality [like Monkey4 - the easiest baby EVER!] or not [like all the rest of my high need and/or colicky kiddos LOL!].

So, really, all is well - just very busy. And I am tireder in this pregnancy than I can ever EVER remember being before - some days it is all I can do to just get one load of dishes washed...or cook... or one load of laundry - but not all three in the same day. Isn't that just pathetic?!! LOL! I really want to just sleep about 16 hours out of every day...for some reason my kids just won't let me! I really hope my energy returns after the baby gets here.

Have a great week!