Attempting to be a Super Mom

The weather outside is:::: It's like 80 degrees today but I hear, there is a cold front moving through tonight. On the breakfast plate this morning:::: Coffee and a bowl of cream of wheat!  So delicious! As I look outside my window::: The sun is shining and it's beautiful!  If only the tree in my front yard would change colors already.  All the rest of the trees on our street are a gorgeous red, but not mine. Right now I am:::: Sitting on the couch, typing this post, and watching a little Manzo'd With Children. As I look around the house:::: I need to do dishes and oh so much laundry!  The floors need vacuuming and sweeping also.  The big girls are playing with toys in the playroom and watching their iPads, and Scotland is working out in her exersaucer. On today's to do list:::: Laundry .....I have bedding, and lots of clothes to wash. Cleaning .....I need to do the dishes, sweep the kitchen floor and vacuum the rest of...

I seem to have caught whatever awful head cold the kids have been passing back and forth.  I feel like it's wiping me out more than it has the kids though.  Rylie on the other hand seems to have a stomach bug on top of the head thing. I don't want that at all!!!  I've been doing lots of tylenol cold and sinus. I want so desperately to do hot tea, but the weather has been in the 80s, and with my hormones still crazy from being pregnant with Scottie and now nursing, I can't stop sweating as it is. Don't let the colds fool you though.  We've still been go go going.  Sydney's class had a field trip to the pumpkin patch.  I always go and leave the kids not in the class with a sitter, but for this trip, I couldn't find a sitter.  I talked to Sydney and told her I wasn't probably going to be able to go.  She was sad, but said it would be fine.  I talked to Shawn, and we decided that I should go anyway.  I strapped Scotland to my chest in he...