Shanda’s recipe for a Good Night’s Sleep:
(Do all with at least 5 children)
Weed garden
Give Grace a bath
Go shopping(with Grace and Abbie, A. watched boys)
Get van battery changed
Come home, Say goodbye to Amanda and Abbie
Serve lunch
Keep house clean
Bake chocolate chip cookies
Go buy bubbles at family Dollar
Go to Geissler’s for groceries
Come home, put groceries away, get out grill
Grill hamburgers and hot dogs & boil corn on the cob
spill boiling water down leg and on foot
give yourself first aid–cold water, ice, then try to forget the pain
Clean up grill, put away grill, put away leftovers
Give David and Caleb a bath. Spank D. for kicking C. over in tub
Put all kids to bed except J, have him help clean
Clean the house (*again*)
Read book on couch
Send Jacob to bed
Husband home at 9:30, finds 2 boys wide awake in their beds . . . . . but,
Mommy sound asleep in her bed.
Good to be Home 
I get exausted just doing the grocery shopping with the kids….they are usually pretty good it is just trying to navigate the store with 4 kids that is the challenge. I can understand your exaustion – I feel your pain. I will be praying that today will get better – remember that you don’t have to do it alone – You have God on your side!
I’m okay. . . .believe it or not, (praise God), I got through the day pretty calmly!
Sounds like you had quite the day. I hope your leg is ok. Boiling water really hurts. Today is going better, right? 🙂
Every day is busy, although not as busy as yesterday! We went to the “Brookside Park” today in Ellington. We loved it because there are baseball diamonds for the kids to run around, a playground, tennis courts, a brook, volleyball net complete w/sand, and best of all HARDLY ANYONE WAS THERE! (I am not a naturally social person). . . . . . . .the only negative thing about the park is that it’s in wide open sunshine, not much shade.
AMEN!! Don’t you just hate it when your husband comes home and says…so what did you do all day? Mine doesn’t do that very often, he is really pretty good.
Did you do all this in one day?
How is your leg now?