13 more days...

Til Aaron starts his way home!!!!!! Can you tell I'm just a little bit excited!!! Well lets see...Tuesday was just a weird, stressful, all around rough day. It started off at 3:39 AM to be exact. The wind was blowing really hard and since we live in Alaska there is no central air...just open windows. Which temperature wise is fine but when it comes to ignoring loud noises outside or hard winds blowing your blinds so much that they bang against your window it makes sleeping pretty hard. And for a girl who has been having trouble sleeping the past few weeks it makes it even harder. So after the blinds banging the window wakes me up I realize that I can smell smoke. So I get nervous. I start searching the house to make sure that nothing is on fire...when I find nothing I head outside to look for smoke. It's such a scary feeling to smell smoke that bad and can't find the source. So I finally make myself lay back down and as I finally start to go back to sleep the boys wake up around 4:30. As we all start to go back to sleep my alarm clock goes off at 5:30! Since I had not gone to sleep until 12:30 that night...I got a grand total of 3 hours and 9 minutes of sleep! That always makes for a great day.

When we all got home that night I cooked dinner and afterwards Logan heads outside to play while I clean up. His instructions were to stay in the yard and his boundaries were explained yet again. He was reminded time and time again but he continued to "forget!" Well the final straw was drawn when I told him to come in for bath time. He was outside the boundaries and when I called for him he walked to where he was about 50 ft away from me...put his hands on his hips...and said "what mom!" With all the attitude of a 14 year old! I told him to come inside...he simply looked me in the eye and turn his back to me and walked right back to where he was NOT suppose to be. My blood pressure sky rocketed! I was livid. I felt it best to give him a minute and maybe he would return...I might be able to slighly control my temper! No such luck. After telling him once again to come inside and getting the same reaction he finally strolled himself in about 15 minutes later. Once he walked in the door I was so mad. Not only had he disobeyed me, he completely disrespected me. So he was grounded. Yes my 4 year old got his first grounding. Last night he was bathed and put straight in bed. The grounding started today. No TV and no outside time. I know that one day may not seem like a long time but to a 4 year old...that's almost a lifetime! I believe he really got the point to...well maybe I'm just hoping really really hard! Tonight he sat in the window and watched the other kids play. One of his friends asked him to come out and he had to tell them that he couldn't because he was grounded. He has promised to listen but only time will tell. I have to laugh about the whole incident now but at the time...I was boiling!

After dinner tonight we sat around. Lane tried root beer for the first time. From the faces he was making I don't think he liked it but he kept wanting more. But every time he would make this awful face. Logan and I were laughing so hard. We talked to Grammy tonight and Lane said Grammy for the first time. It sounded more like "drammy" but she was excited. He said PaPaw and TT (the name Logan gave Trevor..my brother...when Logan was about Lane's age) a while back so mom's been feeling a little left out. He also has a new favorite word..."stop!" I tend to say that more than no. Not sure why but I guess because he gets into the things faster than any kids I've ever seen so there is no time to say no...because he's already started doing it. So "stop" seems the more appropriate word!

I talked with Aaron tonight. He was really tired. They are pretty busy and working at night so it makes sleep really hard. During the day not only is it at it's hottest there are lots of other guys who are not trying to sleep living in the same area. So please keep him in your prayers. Also prayer for extra safe travels on his way to us....we can't wait to pass out those welcome home hugs!!!!!!!