Tired, kids, shoppin, holiday-blog from Sept 30

I am too tired to blog, so this will be brief. I have suffered from severe exhaustion since my sister's wedding, so I have stayed clear of facebook, and have not been blogging, both which are masters in the art of time suckage. The kids activites have increased to 6 days a week with the science program now making swimming, gymnastics and science our roster. I got registered for next term, taking pharmacotherapeutics.

I am so proud of mimi. They were assessing french reading levels in her grade 3/4 class, and she scored highest in the class-by a long shot. I am so pleased that it comes so easily to her. Noni has also been coming home reciting complete phrases and piles of words in french including days of the week, counting, colours, etc-so impressive for 1 month of school, again I am so proud. My favorite phrase she came home with is "Bouche fermier!" Her teacher is excellent. JR has also larned over 1 doz body parts-and he is so full of words these days.

JR has been sick for 3 days, so that is partly the reason for my exhaustion as well. You forget how much it sucks getting up at night with babies once they start sleeping all night. He is wonderful at bedtime, never a fuss, but it was not that long ago I was getting up and nursing him, he has been sleeping through since about 14 months, but only weaned about 2 months now, and he is still very much my baby. When he is sick it is more pronounced, mum mum mum all day long. Poor kid. He was better today but not 100%, hopefully tommorrow.

Despite fatigue, the bay had a big sale so I bought a nice coat(buffalo) and shoes(skechers so fun) this weekend, I am going back to try on the size up just to be sure. I hate buying shoes, I am fussy about the fit. The coat is awesome, I just need to find a new hat and scarf to go with it. I also got a pair of salt and pepper grinders, sooo nice match my decor. They are peugeot, so they should also last and last. I have a mini pepper mill of the same brand and it is superior. I ordered two holiday gifts today from LL bean, dollar is above par and they have a free shipping event, I may order more. Luckily hubby doesn't usually read my blog, so I can say he is getting something from there-even got it monogrammed! The children's place also had a big sale, so I bought a bunch of stuff for the kids. Their uncle Mike is going back to Houston in another week, so he is supposed to pick up stuff for all the kids too. Holiday shopping is well underway!

Hubby passed his flight and has moved into his final phase. I am so glad, this is the shortest phase. It won't be long and we will be flying out to find a house. I can't wait, I can't even describe how badly I want to go.

Holiday meal will be 8, possibly 9. My brother and his family are not coming as he is working this weekend coming up. As a result we will have two bday's for my lil guy, one early and one on his bday. I have all the stuff for the meal, just need rolls and to make more fudge. I picked up the things for the cheese tray already. I think I will take it easy on Mon and Tues, and try and shake this fatigue, so that I can clean and cook for the weekend. We have a wine and cheese to attend Sat, and late nights are too tiring. I want to go, I have a great dress for it, but it is SO tiring.