A Busy Day and A Funny Story

Yesterday the older children had writing class. It ws our last class of the year. My Big Helper has her class first with three children from other families. Then my three boys have their class together. Big Helpers class lasts for 1 1/2 hours, often longer, and then the boys class is 1 hour. I usually stay in a seperate room with the younger children where they play or do schoolwork and we wait while they have their classes. Sometimes I will try to get some shopping done during their classes. Since it is Christmas time I figured I would try to get some shopping done during Big Helpers class since hers is longer. So, with Sweetness baby sleeping in her car seat I dragged the 7 youngest children to Wally World to pick up a few more items on my list. We are done shoppign for the children but I needed to get at least one more gift for hubby.

As soon as we got to Wally World Sweetness woke up. It is impossible to shop when she is awake because she hates her car seat and cries the whole time she is in it. And it is very difficult to hold her the entire time we are shopping while trying to push a shopping cart. I knew that she was really tired and I was hoping that she would fall back alseep once I got her carseat in the cart and started moving and fortunately she did. On with shopping! I put Sunshine and Snuggles in the big part of the cart and had the carseat in the front of the cart and the 4 older children were trailing along behind me. Sweetness slept for awhile then woke up just as we were finishing up and I stuck my finger inher mouth to keep her content until I could get up checked out. Ok, so you know how at Wally World they have displays stuck in the middle of the aisles? Yeah, keep that in mind. So there I was, pushing the cart with one hand and the other hand has a finger stuck in the babies mouth to keep her happy. We are rushing through the store to get to checkout before Sweetness erupts and all of the sudden I see in my periferal visin one of the center aisle displays jerk and hear a loud thump from behind me followed by Princess saying ouch! I said, what happened and she said I ran into that thing. With her face apparently!! She said, I don't think my brain is working anymore. :) She was very blase about it and sisn't make any sort of a fuss so we all kept hurrying along without even pausing inour rush to get to the checkout. One we arrived at the checkout Princess suddenly says, I'm bleeding. At this point I finally am able to get a good look at her and she has bllod in her hair, blood on her jacket sleeve where she was holding it over her head and a big gash on her forehead!! She never even cried and she was so matter of fact about it. So after we checked out (with her still holding her hand over her bleeding head and me with my finger still stuck in the babies mouth) we went to the customer service deskand got her some bandaids and antibiotic cream to put on her head. She is such a tough little thing!!

Also yesterday hubby had a job interview. He has been looking for a new job for the last year. This interview was for a position that he is qualified for in Augusta GA. According to hubby the interview went awful! Their was a miscommunication about the time of the interview and then he was rushed and trying to hurry his talking to get all the info in during the alloted time. And he was interviewed by the same woman who did not offer him an identical job at a different location. So I am not optimistic about that interview, BUT if God wants us to get that job then we will. :)

I am going to try to do the best I can eating wise until the end of the year. This time of year is very difficult to go and stay 100% raw vegan. Too much holiday eating and get togethers. So I am going to do the best I can and not beat myself up when I don't stay 100% true to  my eating plan. Once the new year comes it will be a different story. But for now I am just going to do what I can and not go crazy. Another thing that I need to remember for future reference is that the food at our churches fellowship meals is just not that good and certainly is not worth going off plan for.

I guess that is all for now. Sweetness is sleeping in her swing. It is the first time she has ever taken an extended nap in there. And today she is 1 month old!! It seem unreal that she is already one month old. It goes by so fast after they are born. Also today I tried to get a picture of all the children together to put in our Christmas cards and that was a mess. Not one of them all looking at me and smiling. I'll have to retry or just send out the one that the most children look normal in!

Thats all for now :)