What a weekend!!!!

Believe it or not...i'm smiling as i type this! Not whining....not complaining....actually smiling! My dear Keliah tells me all too often that i never smile anymore and she misses my smile. That makes me sad! I didn't realize that i never smile anymore. My smile went to Iraq and is still there though! I guess i have to find a temporary smile to attach to my face until my permasmile is back. So i'm testing one right now as i tell you all about my weekend! It's feeling pretty good too! It all started with Friday....i didn't have to babysit. I spent the morning with my friend Ashley and her cousin Meggan just shopping. I still haven't done any of my Christmas shopping, but i had a great time! LOL I got the girls some new jeans at Old Navy. And a couple new shirts. While i was standing in line at the checkout...i noticed a table full of their cable knit sweaters sooooo guess who got a new sweater! Yep....ME!!! I never do that for myself and it was so nice to go to the Battalion Christmas party in a new sweater. After shopping i came home and enjoyed the peace and quiet. That night we just hung out and did nothing. Saturday we had the Christmas party. That was really good. The kids got some great Crayola things from Santa. They have had a blast playing with them. I got to meet one of the girls from a Army wife board i go to....not CMW....a different one. One i rarely speak of actually. That was so great to finally get to meet her. She is right too....her baby girl is absolutely adorable! And my girls were well behaved. Then we went to my friend Sarah's house after the party and had pizza with them. We played Wii with them. It was so fun! But my right arm is so sore today! I was getting way into the pitching and batting and bowling! But i had a great time! And all our kids didn't fight or scream or run around like wild people! Today we HAD to go to the grocery store and do some cleaning! We were out of clean towels and clothes so it was definitely time to get busy here! But i wrote everything down and assigned chores to each of us. In an hour and half the house was clean and no one fought over it. I'm still doing laundry but it's so nice to have my house clean! Kaitlyn volunteered to do the dishes after dinner. So we can start our week with a clean house. I'm very happy about that! So anyway. It's been a great weekend. Busy but still really good. This week the girls have to work a little at a time on their rooms each day and by the end of the week their rooms should be clean. Then we can just keep up our daily stuff and not have to take a whole day to clean up again. Well....i'm sure we will occassionally but hopefully it won't get so bad again. It was pretty disgusting! And i hate that! I like my house clean! I just got so busy this weekend and let it go for about 4 days! The floors hadn't been done in ages. I couldn't tell you how long it had been since those were done actually! I put them off til last and then they just never get done. So i'm feeling pretty good today! I'm gonna go enjoy my clean house and my happy children! Have a wonderful week! I'll be back soon!