Winter Breaks Over

Winter break is officially over for us. We'll actually it was supposed to be over one Monday but we've been getting hit hard with winter weather. We got well over a foot of snow and have had arctic cold. Monday was -22° and with the wind chill felt like -40°. Tuesday was -15° and today the low was -11°. It's getting better but still so darn cold. So due to it being so crappie they cancelled school on Monday and Tuesday, not that I would have sent the boys anyway if they hadn't.

Let me just say it's tough getting back on track with the school schedule when you've been off for a while not only for the boys but for me as well. This morning they had a little bit of a hard time staying on track with getting ready. Of course they would rather play and watch cartoons so a few reminders were needed : ) Hopefully they don't come home bombarded with a ton of homework but we'll see.

How has the weather been for you?

Halloween Class Treats!

Sorry this post is a little late but I've been having issue with logging in.  I hope you all had a great Halloween : ) I just wanted to share really quick the Halloween treats we made for the boys classes. I had good intentions as always to get things done ahead of time. But like always I procrastinated till last minute.

So I had to throw something together for both of the boys classes. There not aloud to bring any homemade treats. So this is what I came up with. My oldest has a small class so that's why he got full size candy.

The bat treats I made using ca kit kat bar, black card stock, white card stock, googly eyes, glue dots and tape. I measured the candy bar and cut a piece of paper to wrap around it. The bat wings I just free handed and traced to make enough. I added a cute bow for the girls and his teacher/helpers.

The mummy's are reeses cups wraped with streamers and googly eyes. I used glue dots to attach everything. I'm happy with how they turned out : )

Lovely Things Kids Learn At School

When the boys get home from school I always ask them how there day was. My boys can be chatty and like to tell me about all the awesome and not so awesome things they did or learned that day. Now sometimes the things they are most chatty about don't necessarily have to do with school. Sometimes it's something they heard from a friend.

If you have a school age kiddo I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about : ) My middle boy came home from school the other day having learned a new song. It goes a little something like this.

Scooby dooby doo took a poo and Shaggy thought it was chocolate (insert giggling and laughing). Shaggy took a bite and then he turned white and that was the end of Shaggy!

Awesome right? So that's what I've gotten to hear over and over and over again. Because of course the boys find it hilarious and gross all at the same time : )

My oldest boy told me about the "devil worshipers woods". Yeah I wasn't expecting to hear that. Apparently because Halloween is right around the corner if you go in to the woods the "devil worshipers" will try and eat you. But if you make it threw without them "getting" you they will give you a ton of full size candy. Lol the stuff kids come up with!

So so far this week I learned that you should make sure it's really chocolate before you decide to eat it. And if I ever happen to accidentally find my self in the "devil woods" to run like crazy or break out some ninja moves and I'll end up with more full size candy than I know what to do with. But then I guess that brings me back to the first lesson I learned : )

And So It Begins

BEDA day 14


Today is the boys 3rd day of school. I thought I would at least get a couple weeks before the ever so lovely crazy mornings were gonna start. Yeah right! It started yesterday morning :(

My middle has been having a tough time staying asleep and trying to climb into my bed during the night/early morning hours. I'm able to catch him and send him back to bed at least half of the 100 attempts. I co-sleep with little man and he wakes up a lot threw out the night himself (nursing and or walking back and forth to sooth back to sleep).

So having crazy wild man sleeper in bed just doesn't work. He'll sometimes go back to his bed and fall asleep but other times he just climb in his brothers bed. No one gets a good night sleep and I'm left with a bunch of tired cranky butts.

That's exactly what happened the other day. We woke up and went to go eat breakfast. My middle boy wasn't very pleasant and started bickering with his brother. I told them to quit arguing and being grumpy. He then turns to me gives me a evil stare and yells IM NOT BEING GRUMPY! He continues with his ever so pleasant attitude so I put him in timeout.

He gets hysterical and is crying, yelling, hanging of my arm and wrapping himself around my leg. Great start to the morning right? After finally getting him calmed done we continue with breakfast and getting ready for school.

The boys are getting dressed and I hear them arguing again. Seriously guys can we please go 5 minutes without arguing. Then my oldest walks away mad and walks right into the babys jumper on the floor. He hurt his toe and by this point he's so frustrated he has a mini breakdown crying and yelling in anger.

By this time we only have a couple minutes before the bus is supposed to come. I'm trying to hurry them up so they don't miss it. Right as we step out the door my oldest yells the bus is already at the corner.

I think to my self shit. I go get my car keys and pile everyone into the van. I go drop off middle man first. Let me just say school traffic stinks. Now that they go to different schools it's worse trying to get from one to the other on time.

We get there just as the kids are lined up to go inside. He gets out and walks into the group. There's more last second drop offs in line behind me so I go assuming he's ok cause he's in by all the kids.

Total MOM FAIL! I find out after he gets home that his class was lined up farther down and by the time he walked over to them they didn't see him and shut the door. The doors lock after there shut. So he goes over by the other door and again the same thing happens. He said luckily an aid saw him and asked if he went to the school and who his teacher was.

She lets him in but he can't remember how to get to class.  Finally he figured it out and made it just as they were putting there stuff away. Poor guy when he told me I felt like crape of course. At least this morning went a little smoother and they made it to the bus on time today : )

First Day Of School!

BEDA day 12

Today was the boys first day of school. The boys didn't get the best nights sleep they were to excited and nervous about school. The morning was a little chaotic we need to back into the swing of the whole school routine.

As were walking to the bus stop I'm watching in complete disbelief at how big there getting. I can't believe I have a 4th and 2nd grader! I'm starting to feel old Lol. As the bus comes down the street I tell the boys to have a great day and I l♥ve them. I go to give them a kiss on their for heads my middle one let's me and dives in for a quick hug. My oldest stops me in my tracks and tells me um no not gonna happen. Little turd about broke my heart.

Me and little man hung out at home all day and it felt weird and was so quiet to not have them with us. I'm used to loud rambunctious boys running around : ). I was a little worried about and nervous for them expecially my oldest.  In 4th grade they go to a new school and they even get lockers.

He has sever learning disabilities and is in a class for kids who need extra help or have disabilities. He was nervous about going today and about homework and being able to open his locker. That's a whole other post.

I'm happy to say they came home happy and excited. They both had a awesome day. They couldn't stop telling me all about it : ) I hope the rest of the year goes great we'll see when homework starts flowing in.

I snapped some pictures they wouldn't stay still they were being silly but I still managed to get a few : )

What We've Been Up To The Past Few Day's

BEDA day 11

So I kinda flaked at not missing any days during BEDA but we've had some stuff going on the past few days. One of the boys cousins a little girl the same age as my middle boy has a disorder and was in the hospital not doing so good. She did get better thankfully!

With the boys going back to school tomorrow I had to finish getting there supplies. It's Insane how much stuff they need and that doesn't include all the times threw out the year you end up having to send in more supplies. After spending a small fortune and fight crowds for folders, glue sticks, pencils ect. To lug it all home and get everything sorted, labeled with there name and sharpen 500 pencils (cause yes they want them all pre-sharpened). 

At least I didn't have to write there name in permanent marker on each individual one this year. Then drop off supplies and meet the teachers. I'm sad they go back tomorrow I'll miss my little terrors and the house will be a lot quieter at least while there at school. So that's what we've been up to the past few days.