Attempting to be a Super Mom

Oh you guys! It has been a week!!! It's Friday and I can't even begin to tell you where the week went. Shawn was out of town Sunday through Wednesday. I was so excited for him to get back. You know, single parenting is hard! I do enjoy that I get to be home with the kiddos though. Even when they are being complete monsters. Any who, this week I picked back up a crochet project I haven't worked on, in over a year. The kids got bikes for Christmas from Santa. We've been bad parents and my oldest child, at 10 years old, didn't know how to ride a bike. Thankfully, we've had a few nice days here and there over the last month and have been able to take the kids out for bike rides. They are getting around really well now. Ben seems to have mastered his bike, even though it doesn't have training wheels. He's had a few major wipeouts with it, but is doing really well now. Sydney is really careful on her bike, as she is with everything, and Rylie, true to R...

Life has been a crazy whirlwind lately.  A whirlwind consisting of Spring Break, Easter, Shawn's work travel, dance, art classes, school parties, soccer, and Hand Foot and Mouth. We've been house hunting for the past several months, which has been way more stressful than I imagined it would be. There just hadn't been much hitting the market and now that there finally is, they are selling super fast. I'm afraid we're going to have to get really aggressive. A house we loved online went under contract in less than 24 hours of being on the market. Insane right? Shawn had a work trip that just so happened to fall over Spring Break so the kids and I tagged along and made a vacation out of it. So the whole week of Spring Break we were in Denver Colorado. Shawn and the kids had never been to the mountains.  I've been several times, but was still in awe of it's beauty. The kids and I always manage to find ways of keeping entertained on these trips, and this one w...