Going out with a Bang

New Year's Eve finds me home with Hunter and the boys. Babysitter woes forced a change in plans, but I'm actually glad for the chance to spend a quiet evening closing out 2010 and preparing for 2011. And that is one of my goals for 2011 to give thanks in all things. Its hard, b/c I really wanted to go out but this really is better for so many reasons. For one thing I think I'll turn into a pumpkin a 9p.m.

15 weeks and counting, at my last ultrasound the little bean was 6 cm long and had a heartbeat of 151. Also, all my pre-screening tests for Downs etc came back negative. So everyone's healthy. I'm so hormonal I cry at least once a day for absolutely nothing or absolutely everything. Hunter dried my sweater, cue the water works. Robert rides his bike, hand me a kleenex. I figure all these hormones are a sign I am having a girl..but who knows.

Getting rid of Ethan's pacifier, working on Robert's self control...so many lessons learned in a week and a half out of school. Mostly, that I am not cut out for homeschooling and eternally grateful for second grade teachers who manage Robert and 17 more just like him 5 days a week.
We have forgotten how to share, harassed and "loved" our brother half to death, practiced violin all of one time. Ethan and Robert both wake up asking for candy...literally they are not out of the bed yet and they ask me for it. Sugared up and t.v.ed out we are in desperate need of routines around here.

So tonight we'll break out the confetti, party hats and horns and then tomorrow we will clean up and start fresh. T.V. will be off, candy thrown out, many tears shed (by everyone) and ready or not 2011 here we come.