Can I start this week over?

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!! Hope you had a wonderful day

with the ones that you love. We did!

Leading up to this week everything was going smoothly.

My sweet husband brought me these beautiful flowers for Valentine's Day

as well as some yummy chocolates (love him!!!).

Ethan made an Ipod Valentine box and won a contest at school for the most creative Valentine box. It was easy to make too! We just used some wrapping paper turned backwards to wrap the box, and attached the front papers for the screen and controls. Ethan added the art on the back, and Derek threw a small radio inside so it would actually play music (everyone loved that!).

Well this week hasn't gone so well.

We started out at the dentist on Monday. Both kids have cavities. Multiple cavities.

(We are so grateful for dental insurance!!!)

I knew I should have taken them in months ago

but I kept pushing it off.

So of course I feel like the worst mom ever

and the kids will need lots of dental work done.

I was going to take the kids out for lunch after the dentist on Monday

but we came home and they started fighting.

So we decided not to reward their fighting

and we stayed home for lunch.

This of course resulted in 2 very unhappy kids.

Julia threw a huge fit screaming from her room

"WE ARE GOING TO CARLS JR!!!!!!" over and over.

Um, I don't think so!

When they finally calmed down enough to eat something

they started getting along much better.

I guess we should have had lunch earlier!

Construction on the basement closet is coming along

but we are now at the sanding stage.

That drywall dust is the worst!!!

And it's all over the whole house.

I'm not going to bother dusting yet

because the sanding isn't quite done.

So if you come over and notice

thick white dust all over everything in my house

please just ignore it.

Our dryer died yesterday.

It would still rotate,

but the heat wouldn't work.

It is really old

so we ended up getting a new one last night.

Yay that we were in time

for the Sears President's Day sale!!!

But what a pain getting the old one out

and the new one in.

Any brilliant ideas on what to do with the old one?

And to round out the week

yesterday I went to the doctor

and they told me that I do indeed have gestational diabetes.

SO not happy about this.

I have to go talk to a dietician tomorrow.

I am hoping that the rest of the week will be better.

Please?!