Isn’t there something in blog-land about posting ten things on Tuesday?  I’ve been in somewhat of a blogging funk, but I should be able to manage ten happenings in my life.

• Yesterday the school had a lock down drill.  The kids heard the instructions over the intercom, “LOCK UP IMMEDIATELY”.  Baby Hulk came home freaked out someone is going to hurt him at school.  He started crying.  Goose told me how someone was pulling on his classroom door.  Turns out a classmate was in the bathroom when the drill happened.  Now Goose is afraid to ever leave his classroom for fear of being locked out of the classroom.
• I’m on week two of going at it alone with five kids.  So far, so good.  I don’t recommend it though.  I have a friend whose husband travels every week, no clue how she does it.  Lance plans to leave again for the combine, but I’ve got that time covered.  Old 97’s anyone?
• The dog has moved into the house at night.  I feel bad, she is so sweet, but I can’t stand how much she sheds.  Or barks.  Or digs.  I suppose while she’s inside she can’t dig.  Five minutes in the house, the floor was covered with fur.  This OCD woman can’t take it.
• It’s raining babies with my friends, and I’m green with envy.  I sent Lance a message asking if he wanted to have just one more.  He didn’t even respond.  I’m fine, we’re blessed, I know this.  I just may be showing up at lots of houses to hold babies very soon.  Hoping none of these moms have phobias about people touching their kids.
• Speaking of, I am way weird, as in I make my kids eat granola bars and cookies outside because I hate crumbs, yet, I never had hand sanitizer next to me when people came to see the baby.  Maybe I’m not as OCD as I like to think.
• Snax got in trouble at the gym the other day and when I asked him to apologize, he started wailing.  Really loudly.  I talked to them about it today, and while they were happy that I tried to handle things with him, they wanted to make sure I knew there was another kid who was often a pill in there.  Wondering what they say about Snax.
• Today Goose did a math problem and just wrote an answer.  I couldn’t understand how he got his answer, so I declared it wrong.  Ummmm, he was correct.  Nothing like feeling dumb because you can’t do 3rd grade math.  In my defense, it’s a 4th grade book.  🙂
• I am so behind on movies.  Last year, I promised myself I wouldn’t wait until the last month to catch up on Oscar movies.  I did, and thus far, I’ve only seen 3 Best Picture nominees as well as 3 Best Actor nominees.  Must find babysitters and go see movies.
• The movie I want to see the most: Amour.
• Happy, happy…the kids had a friend over Friday.  While they were at the house, she got a call and there was mention of a pediatrician.  Concerned I asked about my friend about her son.  Her son is fine.  The call was about another child.  A baby.  In the hospital.  Just five days old.  A baby waiting for a family.  This family, they had almost given up hope.  In fact, they weren’t even thinking about getting any calls.  Today, I got a picture of this new family.  Truly, a miracle from above.  A lesson in hope.  God knows, he shows me hope.  What a week!