Birthday Parties

Man..i feel like we are living on cake! holy cow! We just had my 5 year old's party a few days ago and now I'm rushing to get invites in my mail for my soon to be 7 year old! I think we are going to NOT do friend parties next year. It works because we'll be with family at Christmas, so we can celebrate then and also my daughter will be 8! So we'll have all the family in town. Yeah, pretty much seals the deal...NO friend b-day parties next year :0)

The nice thing is that Svend gets off "on-call" the day of the party, which means ideally he'll be home early... We'll see.

I'm so grateful for my babysitting job. I think it's my security. It's my "extra" for all the EXTRAS that keep on coming up :) And the kids I watch are super great...but I am so glad I only have one boy! Holy cow! Bergen and the 6 year old I babysit really go at it...not fighting, just being boys! I'm surprised the house I grew up in didn't fall over with my 4 brothers in it...and I know they were WAY rougher than Bergen! whew.

tomorrow we get to go to Chicago for my youngest's eye appointment. The receptionist called to re-schedule for a later time (it took a month to get in!)...and since my husband is a doctor, I guess I should be super understanding when I'm told that the doctor had an emergency come up and all appointments were being pushed back. I was polite and understanding...but it still stinks. In the end, I got to keep my appointment rather than having an earlier patient take it away from me :) and...I was nice and understanding...the way I hope people are when my hubby has things come up!