Hot dogs in top ramen anyone?

I just noticed Chris fed the kids top ramen with hot dogs in it (not on the side but actually IN the ramen) and I had a good chuckle over it. Now we don't normally feed our kids such...interesting fare for lunch but its been quite the week already and this interesting combo just seems to exemplify it fantastically! 

Earlier this week Chris had to take the day off because he got some sort of chemical burn on his face from welding, now it was healing nicely until he decided to exfoliate his face while I was in class Monday which left him looking like this..

. He took the day off because it was burning badly (imagine that!). I called my mom and we had a good laugh at his expense and I kept asking him what the HECK he had been thinking and you wanna know what he said? "I was peeling like a snake and it was gross". Anyway he was back at work on Tuesday which also just happend to be the day he got out of the shower to discover our 2 and 4 year olds had gotten a knife out of the butch block and popped a balloon (thank goodness it wasn't something else!), Michaela nearly gave a Mason a concussion, the little darling also broke into her sisters room and took off with not only her babylips but also some smelly nail polish that she managed to get on our hardwood floors, Alyssa nearly missed out on soccer practice because she was refusing to her homework, and I'm sure a few more fights and other loveliness has been blocked from my memory. In all I feel like its been a hot dogs and ramen sort of week.

P.S. As I was writing this I had to take a break because Mason ended up getting shoved over the arm of the couch on his head...don't worry his pupils are responsive, he didn't lose consciousness, and he didn't vomit so I'm thinking he's going to be just fine. Oh and be a dear and don't tell my husband I posted this picture or he might get me back with a super unflattering one of myself ;-)

Its been a few..

Since the last time I posted to this site Michaela's strange lumps have cleared up with the help of her medicine and she is her normal sassy self, doing gymnastics, bugging her siblings, and just being 4.

I started my first quarter at the university a few weeks ago and boy has it been an adjustment. It funny when I told people I was getting ready to start and that I have three kids, a dog, and of course my handsome and very supportive husband several times I got "good luck with that!" with their eyebrows to the sky! I was honestly kind of flabbergasted that someone would be so negative about my starting school but hey to each their own. So, we are in our third week of the quarter and I finally feel like I've gotten my feet underneath me and its about darn time too! I'm not sure why the transition to a four year university was such an adjustment but it was and I think a lot of it had to do with mentally adjusting to the fact that after years of dreaming I've finally made it to this level. Perhaps more importantly I have put a lot of pressure on myself to do well and have taken on financial commitments based on my future earning potential that freaks me out and in researching my masters program for when I'm done with the two years I have left at Eastern I found out that they only accept 25-35 students out of a pool of about 50 applications so I need to have a REALLY good GPA and be as well rounded as possible considering I have some serious time constraints due to my many commitments in order to have the best chance to get in. At the same time I'm planning the classes that I'll take this summer and fall so I can register later this month and it looks like there is a good chance that next summer I won't have any classes available to take and will most likely be getting a job and that brings with it the issue of childcare. I just keep trying to remind me "one piece of the puzzle at a time" and pretty soon the puzzle will be done.