Today I awoke with a "BOOM!". A monsoon storm rolled in around 7 am and was so strong it literally shook my bed. I thought, "Oooh! today is a good day to all snuggle up in mom's bed and watch cartoons and listen to the storm." My children had other plans....everyone kept bugging each other or wrestling so that didn't last very long.

We got up and I started making breakfast when our doorbell rang. The kids all ran to the front window to see who it was and started yelling "Mom, it's a LADY!" "Mom, it looks like that neighbor lady across the street!". Mind you, we had just gotten up and I had a 4 yo totally naked because he had wet the bed and was getting clothes to change into. I answered the door in my pj's. What must she think of us? We had gotten her whole stack of mail in our mailbox about 3 days ago. We had repeatedly gone over there and knocked on their door to give it to them, but they were never home. So, I decided yesterday to leave a note on her garage door. So she stood there holding the note, all of the marker ink had bled except my house number so she wasn't sure what I wanted. I handed her her mail before she could really ask. She went on to talk about how scary that is, that the post office gave me all her mail etc. I agreed and she thanked me and went on her way. I went back to making breakfast and was thinking to myself, "You know what's REALLY scary?" "Where's the mail that we SHOULD'VE gotten that day?" We haven't had any neighbors hunting US down to give us our mail.....

After that, we all took showers and got dressed for the day. I decided last night that we're going to move the kids' rooms around a bit so we're continuing our "Spring Cleaning" mission for the week. We got the whole downstairs done except the kitchen, which I'll do tomorrow. Tomorrow, we'll also start to tackle the upstairs. Not much to do up there really. I've just got some leftover stuff in the old schoolroom which needs to come out so that we can make room for Hannah to go in there. On Saturday I hope to take down the boys' beds and put up their bunkbed. Actually one of the boys' beds will go to Matthew (2 1/2yo) in his room. It has rails all along the side so that he can't fall out. Also on Saturday, I hope to hit the Goodwill and Savers (Value Village in Wa.) to try and find a decent dresser for him so I can set up his room. Right now we have his clothes in the same dresser as the other two boys, in their room. Not too convenient.

I took Penny to class tonight. Was a little exhausting the last two weeks. Tonight we started to teach them to "Stay". Then to stay with distractions. Training dogs is hard work I tell ya'. It will be worth it though, if when It's all said and done, that I have a calm and obedient doggie. Never had one of those before. Now, if I can just figure out how to adapt these lessons to my kids......just kidding! (VBG)

Jen ºÜº