Just having fun playing dress-up:-)

Excitement at the Lux house...

Okay so I guess we don't have enough excitement at our house as it is... Matt was cleaning up the garage and basement and took some wood pieces out back to burn. I know just reading this you already know where it's going, right? I mean seriously what story starts w/ "burn" and ends well?? :-) I had just laid the girls down for their nap, when an unknown neighbor rings the bell and says, "your husband is burning something out back, and it's spreading to the field". Of course this is the first I knew of Matt burning anything so I'm like, "okay I'll tell him (thinking C-ya). So I turn to go tell Matt, when I look out the back window and HOLY CRAP! He's right! I run to the garage as the whole field is smoking (just little flames - but black streaks everywhere and tons and tons of SMOKE!). I catch Matt in the garage and say, "a neighbor said the field is burning - and he's right!" Matt takes off to the back, and jumps on the dozer, he's using it to try and stop out the flames as the wind makes them race faster across the field.

About that time a county sheriff officer pulls up - not sure if he called the fire department or a neighbor, but shortly after he arrived the fire department showed up. Of course the girls are not taking a nap now, they were standing in the window watching... Grace wanting to go join them - of course. It took about 45 minutes to get the fire out, luckily nothing big was hurt and it was either land we own or land Matt's mom owns so we were safe:-) I think next time Matt will pay closer attention to the weather conditions before burning!

Are you sure she's mine???

So both girls have been sick all week - Grace w/ dreadfull cough that just won't go away, and Eva w/ a double ear infection... I went back to work on Thursday and I can't get over how sweet Eva is when I pick her up at Brenda's. Running to get her shoes, happy to see me - and ready to go home, I just love it. Grace on the other hand says, "Hi Mommy!" but then goes right on playing... so Miss Happy (aka: Eva) turns into a little monster when we get home... demanding, wanting a gazillion things to eat that I refuse to break down and let her have. But leaving me wondering, did I put Eva's coat on the wrong child. I often want to take a closer look at her just to make sure it really is Eva - I mean no way could she go from totally loving me, to "yuck" that fast, right?

Nope - Eva could. I just remembered this is the little girl who thinks it's okay to whack Grace in the head, look at her, then give the spot she hit her a kiss and think everything is just fine:-) So yeah, it probably is my kid:-)

Tonight is what I LIVE for!!!

Oh my gosh, tonight is what I LIVE for!!! Both girls snuggled up in the big chocolate brown leather chair in my (okay - just in case Matt is reading "our") bedroom, reading a book.... yummy!!!!! I love it - no one is hitting, pinching, pulling hair --- it was absolutely PERFECT! And I didn't even mind that we read the same book three times;-)

Seriously FOUR??? She's not joining the ARMY!!!

Oh no, I knew this day was coming, and it upsets my stomach as if it were ME going through it... I know, anyone who knows me, is probably like, "now what???" So here is the scoop...

I pick the girls up from preschool, and the FIRST thing Jyllian tells me is, "I got FOUR shots at the doctors office and now I can go to kindergarten."

Grace IMMEDIATELY, says "Mommy will I have to get shots to go to kindergarten???? [PANIC etched in her face].

I said, "I'm not sure sweetheart I'll have to call the doctors office and see."

Jyllian (who must have been feeling rather brave) then goes on to say "I got FOUR in one leg, and FOUR in another - I really cried!"

So after we drop Jyllian off, and Grace is still panicked over it I called the doctors office (praying that Grace has already had some of these shots, I mean, seriously??? FOUR?? Come on she's not joining the army!) only to learn that YES she has to get four shots - oh my! I, not wanting to lie to Grace told her the truth -- I don't want her to be afraid when we go to the doctors office on other visits thinking, last time Mommy said I wasn't getting a shot and I had to... so I said, "yes you'll have to get four shots just like Jyllian did to go to kindergarten". I thought at this point Grace might cry, but instead she asked, "will it hurt?" I said, "yes, but it won't hurt long (hoping that was the truth!)" She then wanted to know if it would be "the front of her leg? or the back" I told her I didn't know - she could probably pick:-)

I think Matt will have to go with us on that doctor trip... I might need to be sedated.

Long time, no write...

Oh my gosh, I'm utterly embarrassed at how long it's been since I've blogged... how do you go from a total blog addict to this? I have no clue, other than to say between work, home and photography things have been C R A Z Y!!!! If I weren't sitting at Nanni's house waiting on her to get home from the hospital w/ nothing else to keep me busy (beyond two fussy girls) I'm sure I would have found something else more pressing to be doing. Even now as I type Eva is unloading the drawer in Nanni's desk. Maybe she'll open it tomorrow and realize how much she's missed having us live here:-) It's a maybe at least.

So today Nanni had her third surgery, breaks my heart just thinking about it. I so wish there was something I could do to make it all better. For me at least this surgery is harder as once she heals from it all the really nasty things start. It was easier before to live in a little bubble pretending that somehow this roller coaster you got on wasn't going to come crashing down... strange as it might sound - just thinking about it and I can hear that dreaded "click, click, click" the noise that takes you to the top before you plummet over.

So as I was saying Nanni had her surgery today and both girls are sick - doctors appointments in the middle of all of it... Eva w/ a double ear infection & cold, and Grace w/ a cold... just want you want when you're supposed to, well trying to be a rock. I know that since Mom has to focus a lot on Rob I often don't realize how much she does to help - but today just thinking about losing her terrifies me. I want her to be there for everything, for me and the girls and I just can't even begin to think that she wouldn't. Sometimes it just doesn't feel fair, everything she's gone through - we've gone through w/ Rob, and now this. I know, I know, "life's not fair" but doesn't it just seem like it should be??

Okay enough moping! I'm going to work at being better about blogging - we'll see if I can stick to that;-)

I'm going to steal your ears...

Today we went to Grandma Great (Helen Lux's) 90th birthday party. While we were there, Frank Lux teased Eva and told her he was going to "steal her ears". Well Eva apparently took him VERY seriously b/c she spent the next HOUR -- no kidding, the next hour w/ her hands over her ears!

**Later we did learn that she had a double ear infection... maybe that was why she was so protective of them! Or it could just be, that's Eva as we are always saying!