what a week...so far

michael started work on monday

he seems to like it so far which is great!

 it's been a bit of an adjustment on this end...

 we're always reallllly happy when he gets home

 we've been keeping busy here

really, really busy depending on which person in particular we're referring to

sometimes the kids are already playing outside by like 8am

 i'm feeling really accomplished when i get dressed and do my hair/make-up

 i made sure to document it since it doesn't happen every day

and one day this week i even went until 6pm without brushing my teeth or any other grooming

gross

 any hopes of putting the tv away for summer 

have been dashed

i need the tv to help relieve some of the crazy

 at least i have a cute baby to snuggle

some days he hardly naps so we get lots and lots of snuggles..

 noah's been drawing (in between super mario brothers sessions) which i love

 i've been doing some projects/ getting all the rooms decorated

i traded out 4 framed cow pictures from habitat for humanity restore

for pretty pages from my favorite floral calendar 

i loooove them

 henry's making up for the not sleeping some days by 

sleeping lots other days and giving cute smiles in between

 eleanor helps keep me on my toes by making constant messes,

requesting food all day long that she never eats

and occasionally using my nice make up on her legs..

five kids definitely got harder once michael started working this week

one day he was gone for 11 hours because of a late meeting

i didn't expect this week to kick my butt so much

but...five kids on summer vacation kind of does that to you

not to mention not having a car until today..

luckily we have two cars again thanks to michael's dad for selling us his and delivering it last night

i've also stopped eating sweets and sticking to three healthy meals this week

i want rid of this excess baby weight

but it's not helping my stress level to not stress eat

wish me luck i can survive this summer!