six of one, half a dozen of another!

This is how my morning started....


with a little people toy floating in my coffee. Thanks Benjamin! He thought this was the best thing ever, and after I fished this one out, and by the way I kept drinking the coffee because I have discovered how to add this and that to my coffee to almost make it taste like it has yummy creamer in it...almost! So anyway, he kept trying to put more little people in my coffee....it was a long morning trying to rescue little people from my coffee and keep my coffee from Benjamin!

We also had language class today. We are gone most of the day, from 9:30-4:00. So I was also feeling lots of anxiety about all I had to do today. Lets just say laundry for 6 people doesn't do itself! I know there are people out there with a bigger familys then mine, and I feel for you!
Anyway, I had two loads in a laundry basket that needed to be folded, I had a load in the dryer that needed to be folded and then I had a load on our drying rack that needed to go into the dryer for a few minutes to get soft.....that brings me to this....

This is our drying rack. Clothes go from the washing machine to this, and they dry here and then they go into the dryer to get soft for about 10 minutes! We don't use our dryer very ofter because it can be pretty expensive, like when you are doing laundry for 6 people!

But the good news for today is that I found pumpkins for all the kids. Parker and Lizzie's school were selling them so I bought all the kids one so we can paint them....


This is the best picture I could get of them! Benjamin wouldn't sit still and Timothy had a hard time keeping his pumpkin off the top of his head! But when you give a two year old a pumpkin to hold you end up with this....


And when you end up with that, you do this....

I roasted it, but I'm not sure if this is what it is supposed to look like since I have never done it before. But this was the first time Benjamin has ever held a pumpkin so it was the first time I have had a broken pumpkin that I needed to do something with....There's no telling with Benjamin, he may drop it every year and I may be doing this every year...