1st Cold and 1st Paid Babysitter

Both girls have colds...'tis the season!  This is Aubrey's 1st cold and so far she is actually doing pretty good with it. She has been sleeping for 6-7 hours for the past couple nights. The first night she did that I didn't sleep that time because I was worried she wasn't breathing, but she was!  I hope this sleeping pattern continues because I would sure like to start sleeping like a normal person again and not getting up ever 3 hours.

Friday night, we had the opportunity to go to a fundraising event for the Children's Museum, so we had to find a last-minute babysitter. All of our normal "go-to" babysitters were busy...of course because it was last-minute and a Friday. However, one of our friends had a babysitter already scheduled to watch their kids for a date night and the babysitter agreed to let our kids join in on the fun. We know the girl's mom, so we felt comfortable enough. This was the first time we've paid someone to watch our girls that we don't know all that well. Any other time we've had our friends watch the girls and they never let us pay them.  Aubrey gave her a little trouble about an hour before we were going to pick the girls up, but overall they both did well.

We had fun at the circus-themed event. They had a couple circus acts that performed, games to play, raffle, food, drinks, and a gypsy fortune teller. We don't really believe in the fortune teller/psychic stuff, but it was fun to do regardless. Bobby's cards said that if there is something he has been asking for, he needs to be specific and make a list; otherwise what he wants may not be exactly what he wants.  My cards had a lot to deal with peace (which I need desperately), that I am strong, and that I have a guardian angel watching over me, which the gypsy said she felt it was a female presence like a grandmother or aunt, so naturally I thought about my Grandma Porman and my Aunt Dixie. She said the guardian angel(s) is guiding me through all changes/up and downs in my life. Regardless of what I believe, I thought the reading was neat, but Bobby and I both agree that really whatever cards you draw, they are so vague that you could probably relate the reading to anything in your life.

The next day, we went to the museum again because we had gotten free passes to take the girls. We ended up being there for 2 hours and had a lot of fun!

 

 

 

Bobby had fun, too!

 

I've been getting crafty lately...or at least trying. Thanks to Pinterest, I was able to come up with holiday shirt ideas for the girls and 2x4 crafts since we have a ton of scrap wood from the basement. I asked Bobby to teach me how to use his new mitre saw, which is actually pretty easy. Bobby was nervous I may cut off my hand, but I obviously didn't. He was so impressed/surprised, he was taking pictures of me using it...haha!

My next crafty attempt is to sew some ruffle pants for the girls...I hope I can pull it off!