Joe's Home!!

I'm super tired and really not wanting to blog. Not a lot happened today. Ava stayed with us last night. She really wanted to take a bath this morning, but I wasn't really in the mood to give baths. After breakfast Ava tried on all her new clothes from Natalie. She loved them & was so excited to have them! I went back down for more while her & Nate were playing. I found some more but then I heard the doorbell ring. It was Grandpa. He called a bunch of people so I went back to the basement to look for more clothes. She ended up with 2 grocery bags full of clothes. And when the clothes are for an almost 4 year old, you can get a lot in the bag! She wanted to wear a shirt with buttons!

We took her to Cindy's & had donuts & then eggs & pancakes. Nathan then had cereal & then a banana. Mike says that if Nathan eats as much as Joe does, then I'll be going to the grocery store an awful lot!! We stayed there until about 4:30pm-ish. (I just had to fight off my cat. He attacked my arm.) We got all buckled into the car, took off down the road, & before we got to the highway (about the length of 2 city blocks), Nate was already asleep. I got him inside & layed him on the bed. I finished the dishes, cleaned up around the house, & did some sewing. I also had some leftover nachos!! YUM!!

Nate got up about 1 1/2 hours late. I tried to sew some more but that didn't work too well. I was able to get just a tiny bit done but I had to bribe him with jelly beans. (SHH... don't tell Daddy!) I did some more dishes, cleaned up the front room, & made chocolate milk for me & Nate and a pb&j sammich for Nate (he never ate it). Joe finally got home at about 8:30pm. I was so happy to see him. Nate was too! Grandpa dropped him off & left after just a few minutes. Joe took all his stuff upstairs & called my mom. Nate followed him up there so I decided to take the slipcovers off the couches & do some much-needed vacuuming.

Nathan did NOT want to go to sleep. I started trying to put his to sleep at 9:45pm. He screamed & cried and cried & screamed. I'm guessing he wasn't ready for bed. Just before 11:30pm, he finally conked out. Thank goodness!! He's getting way too heavy to carry around for 15 minutes trying to get him to sleep! I'm just glad he's asleep. I'm so happy to have Joe back home. He was gone for way too long, especially when I had such a busy & eventful weekend! I was going to upload pictures to add on here but the battery is almost dead & won't let me open them up. Sorry, no pictures tonight.

I'm thankful that Joe wants to learn as much as possible about my religion.