Difficult

There is only one word that can accurately and best describe the last couple days - DIFFICULT!!  Cade left early on Friday morning to go with his dad to go to a logging show in Eugene.  While I was not excited about him leaving for a couple of days, I did not for-see it being as hard as it turned out!!  Thankfully, I suppose!

Our morning started off to a different start without Daddy being home but we slowly started getting around.  I told the girls to get dressed and I would do a bit of exercising in our shop.  Our morning took a turn when I asked Eden where her clothes were from Yesterday?  They took baths the night before and I remembered what she wore and knew they were not dirty.  (At this point, lets note that I have been cracking down a bit on putting clothes in the laundry basket when they don't NEED to be washed yet ((P.S> - Ever since my Mom stayed with us!!)) !!!)  

Eden tells me Daddy told her to put them in the dirty clothes.  This already sounded fishy to me, since Cade could hardly care less where the clothes go!!!  Anyway, I questioned her more and she proceeded to tell me that Daddy said that if the clothes were dirty she needed to put them in the laundry.  Next step, "Okay Eden, show me where your shirt is dirty," I said as I pulled her shirt from the top of the dirty laundry basket.  She started looking nervously around.  She could not find a place, so she chose a place by the bottom of the sleeves where the shirt is stained from so many uses.  Smart girl.  Have to give her credit for that!!!  "Sorry, Eden, I don't think that is dirty.  That is a stain.  What dirty spot did you see on your shirt before you put it in the dirty laundry basket?"  She couldn't find it!  This led to a call on Daddy cell phone, in which he informed me that he said NOTHING about the dirt clothes basket, which is what I suspected! After getting off the telephone, I asked Eden if she would like to tell me the truth?!!  This led to time out on the sofa, where she could think about it.  This also led to a very LONG time of her thinking about it, because she knew and remembered that the last time she was in trouble for lying, she was told there would be punishment if she lied.  We told her the truth is a lot easier!!  

Well, she found out!!  I had to interrupt her "thinking time" on the sofa because she wasn't feeling ready for a very long time!!  .....and this is how our day got started!!   Eden has had some incidents with lying before this, so we are VERY careful to watch out for it so that she knows that is NOT OKAY in our home!!!  We say that if you just tell the truth there may not be any punishment, but if you lie, then there will be punishment!!  This is a hard one, but in Ethiopia we know the culture is SO different and lying is very common there!


No exercising for me!  I pull out the dry shampoo I decide I must substitute for a shower and get my hair pulled back, get dressed and get on to a little school for Eden (we have been doing a lot of review lately).  Early naps since it is Friday and that means the girls get picked up from school an hour earlier, which also means little man doesn't finish his nap!! 


After getting back from school, Cyrus is already off the bus from Yreka and I declare that we are all going outside to enjoy the sunshine!!  One man stopped by the house to ask if those cows out on the highway are ours?!!  NO WAY!!  "They are my father-in-laws," I tell him.  He doesn't buy it much, but I don't care.  I go back in the house to get my kiddos outside!  Some of you may know that I have had my share of incidents of animals on the road and people stopping by to share the news with me.  I am not going into details about that, but Cyrus said he could go fix the fence.  GREAT!!  I was dressed in my hiking clothes and the kids were all over in the pasture feeding cows and then on to helping Cyrus with the project, or just be moral support!!  HA!  I left them for a bit to go for a hike!  I knew I needed it!  Treva and Cyrus, well, and Katreese for that matter are very responsible.  When I made it back to them we had some red noses but smiling faces and so I took the littles back to the house to start on supper.


Bereket was eating the cornbread and bean soup like crazy at dinner.  The other kids were full and he was still eating.  I am never sure when he is full, so I always stop giving him food when I think he should be full because he doesn't tell me, obviously.  Anyway, I thought, "Well, maybe he really can eat more than we think and needs more while he is catching up."  I thought of Eden when she came home and how she ate almost nonstop!!!  So, the beans and cornbread kept going in his mouth but he WAS eating slower.  Anyway, maybe I should add, too, that some times he holds the food in his mouth and then I have to encourage him to chew.  I noticed this was happening more frequently so I decided I was going to stop.  His belly was really poking out I could see as he got down to play.  When it came to bottle time a couple of hours later, I wondered if he would even want it.  I thought I would offer it to him anyway, since he looks forward to it every night, drinking his bottle with either Mom or Dad rocking him.  He took the bottle and climbed up in my lap and then started drinking slower than usual, I must admit.  He was acting sleepy, so I thought he was just tired out.  Then, out of nowhere he threw up his entire supper and any bit of his bottle all over him, me, the chair, and the floor!!  


By this time, this Momma was tired out and so it was just what I needed to finish off my day.  Throw Bereket in the tub, take clothes off, clean the chair and the floor all the while getting the other littles tucked in their beds.  After getting Bereket bathed and dressed I sat in a different chair and held him a while longer and debated about giving him more bottle!  At this point, it was later in the evening and way past this little guy's bed time, so he fell asleep in my bed!!  Yep, don't tell Daddy, but we needed it.  I was tired after holding him in a chair for some time and moved to our bed so I could rest too.  After he fell asleep, I scooped him up and put him in his crib!  


THAT was my day on Friday!!  Thankfully, I woke to Cyrus making waffles this morning.  That HAS to be a promise of a better day, right?!!  Better, yes, but not without it's glitches!!  For instance, take a mouthy 12 yr old!!  More proof, our life is not all perfect and rosy and cheery!!  Not to mention that adjustment is still going on and it effects our WHOLE family!!  After all of it, I remind myself that it builds character.  Oh, and I will sure appreciate my hubby even MORE when he gets home, right?!!  Things just don't feel right when Daddy isn't home. 


Happy Weekend, ya'll!!