649 here I come

Life is busy, and sometimes as busy as we make it. Last weekend was awesome, we went to a birthday party at Cosmic Adventures, which I highly recommend. For the packages and prices you can choose from as well as the age range. Jersey had just a blast there, Nikyla came up and said she was ready to go but Jersey was not. She was VERY upset when we went to leave, even though we had been there 3 1/2 hours.
Nikyla is going through a funny stage. She doesn't want to go to the sitters she just wants to go home. I think that she remembers me being home all the time and misses it. The sitter and I have tried to find out what she might like more at the sitters and she said nothing. Jersey on the other hand likes it there and has seemed to adjust well still. Maybe it is the mixture of the kids being Nikyla's age which she prefers being with older kids. Maybe she just hasn't connected with anyone else there. I don't know, I am out of ideas... It's stressful, along with my job and housework and I am finding that I am clenching my teeth at night and waking with brutal headaches. If I work longer hours to get caught up, it's at the cost of not seeing our kids, and I hate cutting into our time. I only see Jersey for about a half hour in the morning if I am lucky and about 2 1/2 hours at night and most of that time is spent cooking and cleaning.
I need to win the lottery, I guess in order to do that I should start playing :)

Thanksmas

Ok so I am waaaaaaay behind on blogging, but Jersey has had this wicked cold and I have been so tired. Plus last Thursday we went to the disappointing hockey game, if you can call that a game. Anyway, another couple and us went to the game, it had been a while since the 4 of us have been out without the kids. So we had a GREAT time, and drank a wee bit too much. Jaime was really feeling it on Friday, so ever since then I have been trying to catch up on my sleep.
We drove to my parents, about 3 hours from here on Friday night. What a mess. I thought it would be better to drive down at night and have the kids sleep... wroooong. Jersey would cough and make herself puke because of the phlem caught in her throat. So we got there with one smelly kid. Nikyla was great, except she was doing the 'are we there yet' every so often, made me laugh. Saturday we got some great professional family pictures done, I can't wait to get the CD. We had them taken outside at a park in the trees. Then we had Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas all in one. My parents are gearing up to leave for Mexico, so this was the last time we were all going to be together before they head out. They'll come up here one more time before they go for 6 months to the nice, sunny, warm Mexico. I am not too jealous.
Just FYI, the drive back was much less eventful, cross your fingers she is getting better. Although now Nikyla and Dan are coughing with runny noses.