Just another day

Oh, yeah - except for the part where we woke up at 7:00 a.m.  I  know, I know - how does that happen?  Well, we were out trick-or-treating and didn't get home until almost 9:00 p.m.  Then I insisted on everyone taking a quick bath/shower.  Which means we didn't get in to bed until about 10:00 p.m.  I think everyone was sound asleep in just a few seconds.

For some reason Joshua decided to climb in our bed about 1:30 a.m.  Which led to reshuffling, grumbling, and lots of pushing with little feet. 

Then at about 4:00 a.m. I hear "Daddy, I wet the bed".  UGH!!!!!!  So - off Joshua goes for another bath and mom cleans up the pee and starts laundry and we climb back in bed again about 4:30 a.m.

Then we have the pushing / shoving / grumbling - "please Joshua go to your bed" discussion again.

Next thing we know - it's 7:00 a.m.

So I had big plans to get home early, go to Miss Dawn's to get our nuts / chocolate order from Girl Scouts, then get home, have dinner, be the happy family and ask everyone about their day - while daddy plays basketball.  Nope - not going to happen.  I have management classes tomorrow at work, interviews to perform for new EEG Techs, patient calls, Dr. Flamini on call and needing help, etc.  I didn't even leave work until after 5:30 p.m.  Then I realize that I have a total of 14 miles until I am supposed to be out of gas.... grrrrrr.  So I make it to the most expensive gas station on my way home at Northridge - with 1 mile to spare!!!!!  Get Joshua - who is out of control playing with Jack (his best friend at school) - get Layne and Jacob, go to Miss Dawn's.  Now it's almost 7:00 p.m.  Yep - we ate out - Taco Mac and cheese dip with tortillas.  I still can't seem to get it all done.  I feel like I spend my days rushing all the time.

Had to elect our new health benefits for next year.  Yes, they increased - AGAIN.  Yes, we get less benefits for the same money - Thank you to the current government (sorry had to say it).  We have further limits on our Flexible Spending Accounts - less allowed and less items that can be applied.  It gets even worse in 2013.  Hopefully something else will reverse this trend.  Going to be a tough election year.  Not intending to make a political statement - but every year when I have to review / renew benefits it really gets to me.

Here is one of Matthew's artistic photos - he loved the curl of the pumpkin:

This is a picture from our trip last weekend to Burt's Pumpkin Farm.  We made the trek again.  We went up on Sunday and took a picnic lunch and ate at Amicalola Falls State Park (along with a million other people from metro Atlanta).  Enjoyed some great weather.  Then came back out of the park to Burt's and picked our pumpkins.  I think it's a pretty good picture - except Grandma looks like she is visually impaired - and there is some girl in a pink t-shirt trying to move in to the shot :)

Here is Jacob amongst the pumpkins:

  And here are all  kids - Pumpkin Farm 2011: