Robin's Nest

Well yesterday miss Lily got her glasses!  She was so scared as the tech put them on and of course cried!  But once they were on she darted out of the office and into the eye center and just looked at everything.  She even ran to the fish tank to look at the fish!  I have tried the last three visits to the eye doctor to get her to look in that tank but it took a pair of $300.00 glasses to get it done!  Yes I said $300.00.  Vision doesn't come cheap for little ones and our insurance doesn't cover the actual glasses.  But to see her take in all the new things she can see... it is totally worth it.  Keeping them on her little head has been challenging at best! It has been a week since Lily got the new specs and probably she has worn them 4 out of seven days.  She has RSV and has been running at the nose like a sieve. Poor baby is miserable! Actually her little partner has it too.... sad little babies.(not sure why they continue to smile?! ...

Well much to my dismay and then again my excitement I attempted to return to work this past week.  Of course the first day about an hour before time for me to leave my wonderful 3 year old, almost four, decided to dump vegetable oil on the kitchen floor! She and the 21 month old were gleefully sliding around, sitting in it, rubbing it in their hair and otherwise really having a great time! Thankfully DH was home from his adventures and we scooped them up and tossed them in the tub I watched the tub while he wiped up the mess.  Much to my surprise the floor looks better than it has in years! DH was also quite pleased with the result!  And too bad I didn't think to take any pictures! I guess I was too busy thinking I could not be late on this first day back to work. I arrived at work a wee bit earlier than I even planned for (they really should mark the calendar, cuz' that rarely happens!) Once there I felt okay I was relieved when they said I would have m...

So tooling around the web this weekend I found inspiration to make homemade Hamburger buns!  It seemed easy enough and the last time I had attempted something like this had been at least 14 years ago... I made homemade egg bread rolls.  They were delish but took a lot of time to get done and at that time not only was I on active duty in the army I had a side job delivering newspapers... so basically no time for any extras. The original recipe was from another site but I found it on Blissful and Domestic blog please forgive me I broke down and purchased a new tower and it came with windows 8.... so far I am not much of a fan but maybe with time... I want to give her proper credit so I will probably have to back out of here and make more than one post to get you to the right recipe.  It seemed very easy although I did enlist dear husband to man the two littles while I stuck the ingredients in the bread machine.  that was pretty easy! And I honestly called up to dear ...

At first I thought this blog would be about menopause.... but that is not the biggest change of life in our house.  Three years ago my husband and I added a six month old infant to our routine.  That changed everything!!! Truth be told in 2004 when we added two preteens to our family the real change started. Our life was already a blended family and chaos seemed to be the order of the day. This "draft" got lost and now we are thinking of adding more chaos to the routine... hopefully three more blessings but if not three at least two.  I am praying for guidance...  I close in prayer for the right path for my feet to follow.

Well in my last post... back when dinosaurs roamed the plains... I had promised to get a bag of donations together roughly every three days to help clear out the clutter.  I also said I would keep everyone posted and be held accountable.  Then again I did not count on computer crashing in multiple to happen.  Yes in multiple!  It all started when I loaned my recently restored laptop to my son.  Of course then the tower which had been working just fine decided to start "freezing" Then my kindle decided it was not going to charge any more (I think that was self defense, the 3 year old has been obsessed with watching "super Why" on Netflix) so I went to the netbook as a next resort.  It too has started acting absolutely crazy.  We already bypass the mouse and built in key board to get it to work but now it also has problems that are not solved with those techniques. Now this house has probably 10 computers in total most don't work and those that do be...

Today was our big appointment with the Psychologist.  Long and short of it the appointment was set up by the wrong person for the wrong person.  The young lady at the desk let me know that they thought it was odd that we were switching therapists when they saw the schedule this morning but no one thought to call and ask about it.  We got into the office and she let me know that we would not be seeing a psychologist so I declined the appoinment. I do believe the play therapy helps in the setting that it is done in but once we leave she reverts back to her normal behavior.  So they rescheduled us for April and we can only hope she can make it that far or we can find another child psychologist in the mean time. Well not a lot got done today but I will plod on trying to accomplish my goal of de-cluttering.  We were good today we stopped at the golden arches but we only bought the very upset  kids some french fries.  small children do not understand when...

What a closing ceremony!!! Happy Birthday to Randi, Lucas, Tryston, Brianna and Mary!  Sorry I did not bake a cake for any of you!!  And in 2 weeks when the March Birthdays start... I probably won't bake any cakes either... I said probably.  I am not sure what I will be up to in 2 weeks I hope back to work only because I have bills to pay and I am not making any money staying home.  I have enjoyed watching the olympics and playing with my little girls... I really wish I could stay with them and not work.  So part of my goal this year is to get completely out of debt and to learn to do more with less. Part of that goal includes less procrastination... so I better get some more pull up pants made for Peyton.  We have to use less paper products and more reusable items.. no matter how painful!  Washing diapers isn't that painful but pull ups kinda bug me.  Only because I am frustrated that potty training is not happening!  Not for lack of tryin...