What.A.Week.

So much to blog and so little time...or so the saying goes. Well, actually I just made that up.

Last weekend Josh and I got to go away for a much, much needed weekend. A whole weekend free of children and arguing and poopy diapers. Aaaahhh...We went to Seattle for the weekend and got a fabulous deal online for a 4 star hotel. We've never stayed in a 4 star hotel before..except maybe once with Rescue..Anyway, we got to go to a movie, go shopping (alone!), do some touristy things in Seattle, all in all the perfect weekend away. The only bad thing about the weekend was that we wished for another day..Reality came back too quickly.

From practically the moment we returned home, I began really planning for Josh's surprise birthday party. I had started some of the ground work for the party in the previous weeks, but most of the work was reserved for after our weekend away since that took a LOT of planning. So starting Monday, I started kicking the plans into high gear. All week long was full of secret grocery shopping, secret planning and emailing/calling friends and family, secret child care arranging (for the grocery shopping) and lots of secret keeping from my husband. Since I'm not normally one to keep secrets from my husband, having to keep secrets from him and be ever careful of every conversation that I had with him during the week took a lot of energy. And since I have a highly attentive husband it made it even more difficult. Last night was the party and it turned out really well. There weren't as many people as I would have liked, but there were several and Josh was blessed by all the people coming and all the work that I put in. After the party, Josh's brother Jay worked hard to put together an all night xbox party for Josh. All in all, I think it was a great party for Josh..a weekend away with me, shooting guns (the diversion to get him out of the house) a surprise party and xbox. I don't know about him, but I am partied out.

Another thing that has been going on this week is getting our refinance finalized. It has taken a lot of time, but we get to sign on Monday and are both excited!

This morning at about 9am, after getting the girls up and getting them dressed, I thought that I would wake Josh up with some cute girls climbing on him..so we all went upstairs and I piled the girls on the bed. Considering that Josh had gotten home around the hour of 2am, he wasn't initially joyous about being woken up by this method. But after a few minutes he was fine and then decided that we needed to get all the kids ready and go to the zoo. I did think that he was a bit crazy, but I consented and we started the process of getting all 5 kids in appropriate attire and loading everyone up in the car. Now, here I must point out that I don't particularly like the zoo. I'm truly not all that fond of animals and to me, the zoo is just a lot of walking around with crowds of people, which I also highly dislike, trying to look through tiny windows to view animals that are sleeping. And we do all this while trying to keep three babies happy by handing them food or picking them up periodically, as well as trying to keep track of 2 boys who insist on running ahead of mom and dad, and dart in front of people, causing tripping and rear-ending of strangers who are trying to keep track of their own kids who are a mile away doing the same thing and then glaring at us to keep track of our kids. Anyway, Josh told me this morning that it was supposed to be 53 degrees today..that sounded so warm to me compared to the 40's that we've been having so I dressed in what I thought was appropriate for 53. Well, I totally under dressed and was freezing the whole time. In addition to everything else that I already complained about. Not only that, but we went at lunch time and I was hungry. One thing about being a mother of triplets that I haven't quite gotten used to is all the attention that we get when we go out in public. At every exhibit we went to and everywhere in between there were people around us exclaiming, "Look! Triplets!" Or some other such comment. One lady actually asked, "Are they all triplets?" I came so close to saying, "No, only two of them." But just like the good Christian that I am, I held my tongue. We were just as much of an exhibit as any of the animals. Needless to say, I did not have a good time. But Josh did and so did the boys and the girls seemed to be entertained. So I guess it was just me. Aren't I the self-less mother and wife? (Heavy sarcasam)

All and all, I am tired and ready to get life back to normal. Whatever that means.