It occurred to me today, as Michelle and I sat at the front desk, that today marks exactly one month till my 30th birthday! 30 days left of my 20’s. I can’t say I’m panicking, or that I feel sad about it. I feel younger than I have in years, and Jaylen says I look 23 so I’ll take it! 😀

It’s been a super relaxing week at work. I’m at the reception desk all week so I’ve spent it answering calls, taking messages, preparing certificates (still), and playing Words By Post with my Babe and Jr. whenever I get a minute throughout the day 😛 Sure does make the time go by fast, thank goodness. I’m proud to announce that I’ve beaten Jorge 12 of 14 games hehe.

I got out a little early yesterday to rush home, change and make sure the kids had dinner and were ready for the movies. We picked up Jorge and headed to Carmike. We made it just on time, got our tickets; got good, albiet close, seats and got all the kids their drinks, popcorn and candy. We were a little skeptical about how things may pan out with 6 kids at the movies, but things went smooth as can be :). They were all well behaved and into “The Lorax”, and the girls only had 1 potty break :).

We got home and the kids played while Jorge and I rushed around sweeping and vacuuming. He finished while I made dinner. We lazied around with the kiddos while we watched The Voice and played Words By Post :P.

I’ve gotten a chance to have lunch with my love this week. We don’t get to anymore since I use my lunch hour to pick up Aly from school, so we’re taking advantage this week, hehe. We’ve had Espi & T’s twice. My fave :).

I got Friday off to spend with the kiddos. Let’s see if we can find something fun and inexpensive to do :). It’s been great having them all home . I don’t think they’d seen sunlight since Monday. I told them all to go outside and spend a few minutes getting some sun while I make dinner (chicken Alfredo). Glad it’s getting dark later now. Really need to get them a swing set or SOMETHING. They’re happy playing tag and climbing trees right now though :).

We slept in till almost noon today, thanks to the time change, heh. Jorge was up and ready to tackle his to-do list. He went to the auto parts store, bought what he needed (the bank account is screaming), and got to work.

Armed with my cup of hazelnut coffee, I made some cinnamon vanilla French toast. Again the boys wanted only cereal, so I obliged. At some point I got out of my PJs and went with my love to the auto parts store (it was his 3rd visit). He was working in the garage and I was bored so I figured I’d start weeding around the bougainvillea.

I was becoming concerned about my bougainvillea, since it had been flowering wonderfully and all of a sudden it started to wilt! I’d done some research while I wanted in the truck as he was in the store. I realized that, with the rain lately and the few times I’d watered them, I’d overwatered my poor plant :(.

So I weeded around it (that took FOREVER) and I finally decided to go all the way and edge it, lay down the weed screen and put mulch all around. The lawn guy got here just as I was starting on the edging and helped me, then suggested I lay newspaper under the weed screen first, to help keep weeds away even better.

I love it! We plan to add a few petunias next weekend hopefully :). I have to add this photo of this super cute wormie!

I never thought I’d become interested in gardening. I always wanted to, because Mom’s always been into plants and I know my great-grandma was, too, but I never had the patience. Or a yard to call my own, really. It feels great and it’s so satisfying to see the fruits of your labor :).

Well, the fruits of our lawn guy’s labor, too, hehe. He does a hell of a job on our enormous yard (for a great price!).

My love finished with my van AND he washed it! He’s so awesome *swoon*. How’d I get so lucky ?!

I talked to my kiddos right after, showered, and then we just chilled for a bit. I ordered tickets to take the kids to the movies on Tuesday. Gonna start planning some nice (cheap!) things to do for Spring Break. I get all my babies back tomorrow morning ♥!

Junior and all the guys just showed up and brought me this little gem:

I opened it, and found this:

HECK. YES!!! I may not have teeth in the morning, but it’s so worth it :P!

Gonna go enjoy this beautiful evening on the patio :).

This weather is putting a damper on my mood and making me sleepy and lazy. That, or it’s almost THAT TIME.

Let’s go backwards, shall we? I’m waiting for dinner to finish cooking Jorge to get home at the moment. I made a new sauce for the baked chicken I was making and it was SO GOOD. I used a 10.5 oz can of cream of chicken, 1/2 of that can of milk, 2 stalks (is that what they’re called?) of chives, 1 stalk of celery, about a little less than a handful of cilantro and half a serrano pepper and pureed them all together. I wanna grab some tortilla chips and just eat the rest of it O_O. I would have posted a picture of it, but it came out blurry and looked weird .

I cleaned the girls room from top to bottom and reorganized the closet. Sally and Quentin had come over and I made spaghetti and turkey meatballs while we caught up on the past 2 weeks. Prior to that I cleaned up the living room, sorted (more) laundry, cleared the dining table and had just gotten started on the kitchen counters.

Mario has the kiddos this weekend (probably another reason why I’m this way). I got to see them in the morning for a bit when I met him (and his mother) to give him Emily’s eardrops. I miss them all :(!

I asked the boys what they’d like for breakfast, eggs or cereal. They picked cereal, of course LOL. I made breakfast for myself: egg whites and yellow & orange peppers, cilantro, onion, tomato.

And hazelnut coffee that mom so nicely brewed for me when I woke up at 10am. Yes. 10am.

I’d fallen asleep the night before at 9:30pm or 10pm. With Ruffles on the sofa. I woke up just as Jorge was snapping a photo LOL.

I’d made baked fish (this time for all of us, heh) for dinner with a side of green bean casserole. Jorge installed a new camera lens on my Evo. Now I can take clear pics again :)! And I got a new cover for my phone so I won’t scratch it again…

I kept myself busy when I got home from work. It’s quiet and I get so bored without the kiddos here. So I cleaned till it was time to start making dinner, before Jorge got home with his boys. I had an observer:

Friday was a long, cold day. Kinda boring. Except for when we had almond cream cake from Sweet & Tasty for the boss’ birthday. Before that there was a tad bit of drama. Before that the day started out kinda crappy.

Mario’s weekend started on Thursday night. His mother came and picked up the girls, of course. I was happy I got to see my boys. My God, how I miss them :(.

I was just about to start baking some fish when we decided to go to on a little date to Kumori :). I still made dinner for Mom and then my babe and I got ready to go.

It was great and we had some laughs :). We got home and watched our DVR’d American Idols and then went to sleep :).

Thursday, after I picked up Aly from school, I picked up Mom and Emmy. They both had doctor’s appointments so we got those out of the way.

Wednesday was spent doing finance-related stuff at work. Got home, chilled with the girls, snapped a pic:

And we met Jorge at Taco Bell, which is what they wanted for dinner :).

Tuesday night was Alaethia’s first Open House :). She didn’t have much work, since she’s only been at this school for a month, but the work she has done is impressive! Even her folder is adorable:

Her teachers have wonderful things to say about her all the time *beams*.

We went grocery shopping right after, all us girls. Got home and made this wonderful dinner with my love (he got home right on time to make shrimp scampi, hehe):

Monday was a day spent in court, brought on by events from the week before.

And that’s that. Somewhat of a summary. I’d have gone into detail but it’s late now. We started watching Netflix movies, first “Limitless”, which was pretty darn good and then “Chaos Theory”, which is an older Ryan Reynolds movie. It was a little sad, comical at times, and had a happy ending. And now I’m sleepy and my love is passed out on the sofa next to me. Good night :).