I had 13 kids at our house most of the weekend, including 9 that slept over here on Friday night.
Cami was getting paid to take care of 5 of the kids overnight and for most of two days.
4 of the kids were my nieces and a nephew that Ellie had been begged to have over for a night.
3 of the guests had fevers.
I fed bowls of egg noodles in broth to 2 kids who are allergic to eggs. Thankfully neither reacted to it. The mom suspects that it's because the noodles only contained egg yolks and not the more allergenic whites. I feel majorly horrible, especially since I pride myself in being uber careful about people's food allergies. I think I was thrown off because the kids were sick and not eating anything else I served.
Cami had 1 cupcake order and 1 tutoring job during her babysitting stint, which is why I was feeding kids without her around.
Glen and Spence both completed legs of a 70-mile relay.
Glen ran about 10 miles, Spence about 14. Two friends did all 70-miles themselves.
I worked on the yard for 2-hours in the heat of the day, mostly to escape the noise on the inside of our house. The kids found a beautiful white-marked tussock moth caterpillar, while I found that I have the capacity to sweat A LOT.
It was 1/2 hour before the evening session of stake conference was supposed to start and I realized that I hadn't showered, I was wearing my grubbies, still had 13 kids at our house, hadn't made dinner yet, and was covered in grass stains from working on the yard. I opted not to go.
I spent 20-minutes cleaning up after a little blender "incident" that one of my children had (see picture below).
I was fine most of the weekend and it wasn't really until the next day that I got a little overwhelmed....mostly after viewing the aftermath of this weekend on our house (see a glimpse in the pictures above and below).
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Here are a few pictures of our crazy weekend...you know, so I can look back at all this with nostalgia someday!
Did I forget to mention that my brother is back from his nearly 3-month European tour and is hoping to find a job here?
4 comments:
You did have a crazy weekend! The kiddos looked like they had fun!
That's a cool looking caterpillar!
That blender explosion is enough to make me cry! Oh my!
Looks like a little too exciting of a weekend! Hope you've recovered!
That would take a while to recover from all
of that. 13 kids plus a blender accident. oh my! Hope you are somewhat over it by now
Thanks for having our kiddos over. They had a blast!
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