Today

Usually I sit at my computer and think "hmm...what did I do today?" and then I get frustrated because I felt like I ran around all day and at the end of the day it seems like I didn't get anything done.
Today however the question is "what DIDN'T I do today?".
We had quite the busy day today but it was super productive which makes me happy!

We took a meal to a new family at church today so the day started out with a quick trip to the grocery store...in the pouring rain. I'm not even kidding when I say that every single day it rains I have some reason that I have to go to the grocery store. But the trip was pretty painless and we managed to not get too wet so all  was good.
After the grocery store we swung by the house and picked up Franklin and ran him over to Amanda's to get his nails clipped. It was quick and painless (at least for me and the girls...Franklin might tell a different store...getting his nails clipped is about his least favorite thing in the world...it's right up there with being petted by a small child).
We came home and I got busy making dinner. It was quite nice to have everything ready for dinner by noon! All I had to do tonight was pop it in the oven for 30min and heat up some rice...awesome! After I cooked the dinner I even managed to get the dishes washed too, put up the girl's clean clothes, and throw in a load of laundry.
Then I fixed the girls a delicious lunch of eggs and waffles. We had this at lunch because they had pb&j at breakfast. That's Emmie's new favorite breakfast food...silly girl! Actually, I think she started doing it to see if she could get a rise out of me since she was asking for lunch food at breakfast...she was sorely dissapointed but then she decided she really liked having pb&j for breakfast so there you go. Poor Ellie just has to go with the flow. I always load their sandwich up with peanut butter and just a little jelly so they start off their day with lots of protein. (By the way, have you tried Earth Fare's organic peanut butter? So yummy!)
Once the girls got down for naps I read for a bit and then headed upstairs to work on my Secret Sewing Project (SSP). I'm super excited about it and my friend that's helping me clearly knows me well...she gives me deadlines for getting different steps done...I so need a deadline when I'm working on project and usually I create my own deadline so I'm up all night the week before an outfit has to be finished. My friend rocks and I'm going to have this project done way ahead of time...yay! So anyway I realized I had lots of work to get done before she gets back from her out of town trip which is when my next deadline is. (I use the term deadline loosely she's really not the sewing nazi.) In this time period I also managed to clean my sewing machine, change the needle, order the rest of the fabric for the SSP, and sign up to work at Tot Trade (hello super early shopping AND an extra percentage on the clothes I'm consigning...score!).
After naps we headed over to deliver our meal and visited for a few minutes and then came back home and got our dinner ready. Lately Emmie seems to always be starving...I had to give her a mid morning snack this morning and she had eaten all of her breakfast and still managed to eat all of her lunch and then some! So she didn't get a snack after naptime so as you can imagine the world was about to come to an end if she didn't eat immediately! While dinner was cooking I managed to fold and put up some laundry (Ellie's bank-bank was in that load so I was glad it dried quickly...the whole having to wash bank-bank is slightly traumatic for Ellie), get a little more done on the SSP (aren't you DYING to know what it is? the evil part of this situation is that it will be many months before I reveal the SSP...and no it has nothing at all to do with a baby...I know someone out there was thinking that so we'll squash that rumor before it starts!). Also while dinner was getting ready Ellie climbed up in Emmie's chair at the kitchen table with some playdoh and started jabbering and it took me a minute but then I realized she was telling me "I'm Emmie!".

She thought she was so funny (and who are we kidding...she is so funny!) and I thought it would be a good moment to get her on video telling me what her name is. You can't really hear her say her own name in the video but I think the part where she's trying to tell me she's Emmie is hilarious!

After dinner I vaccumed the whole house (Ellie so kindly assisted me) and then got really ambitious and flipped and turned the mattress on the guest bed...talk about a workout! Then it was bathtime and then bedtime for the girls. I put Emmie to bed first and then came out to find this situation...the kid cracks.me.up!

I had to PRY that bag out of her hands...she thought she was taking it to bed! Also, for those of you who don't know, that is the infamous Baby that she sleeps with.

By the way, did I mention that in addition to having to pick out her shoes in the morning Ellie is also insistent on picking out her pajamas at bedtime? Yep, she's a little diva but oh so stinkin' cute!

I was super impressed with myself tonight because Paul wasn't home to help but I still managed to get the girls in bed by 7:35. Excellent. Then I headed upstairs to work some more on the SSP and after making quite a bit of progress and only having to call the sewing nazi (hehe) once ( I was pretty impressed with myself) I headed back downstairs to wrestle Emmie into staying in her bed and write this blog!
I think I had quite the productive day!I
I'm also very excited that I've managed to keep my small children germ free this week so that my mom can come visit us tomorrow!!! The girls and I are so excited the last time we saw her was early January and I've been so scared that someone would get a cold this week and she wouldn't get to come but we did it...we stayed well...quite the feat with 2 small children in the middle of winter!