Saturday

28 quarts of plums. Now I think we will move onto plum jam.

Hmmm, maybe I should have started that earlier...

Here is my Lillie. My baby. The perfect end to my evenings is to come outside after the children are in bed and just watch my puppies nurse and grope around. Their little eyes should all start opening tomorrow, then the fun begins.

My new 4 day old ShihPoos, now which ones are going to pay for that c-sec? We usually pick a theme like *flowers* for the litter and name them, any ideas? We have done candy bars & gemstones. I'd love to hear any themes you think of and write them down for future use.

Ahhh, the smell of fresh new carpet in the house. Next week Mr. Carpet Installer will finish the staircase, our bedroom and the boys room. Light colored carpet is just NOT practical for a large family. It is bad enough there was large family who lived here before us and they installed the carpet throughout the upstairs and it was already used then! It was hammered to say the least, hence, no before pictures. I kinda hated to see it go you know? Oh look, that is where Danny got his first middle of the night bloody nose when he was 2, and over there where the dog drug the lasagna...and there, someones name written with a sharpie...not to mention all the *clean* spots outside the bathroom door where I have Little Green Clean Machined many an *accident* while siblings took too long to "unlock that door!" Arg, good riddance.