We were up late last night.  We took the kids to see fireworks  It was fun and it was beautiful.  Caleb was especially cute.  His little eyes would blink-blink at the bright lights and then he would point up at them.  The boys watched silently, with a comment or a cheer now and then.  Grace was another story, she was bounces, giggles, laughter, chitter-chatter, and excitement (“that’s what little girls are made of”).
Did you ever notice that when you think, “oh, the kids are so tired, they’ll sleep SO good tonight”, it doesn’t happen?  David woke up with a bad dream at 4:00am.  Rich and I had a very hard time getting back to sleep.
We were up for the day before 8, faced with the challenge of cleaning the house for online pictures (to sell the house).  Oh, was that hard.  I ALMOST thought about crying when the real estate agent was walking down the driveway and I checked the boys room to see a “pig pen”.  But, thankfully, it all came together and our agent was nothing but praise for us, “I can’t believe you have 5 children in this house, you would never know it”.  Apparently she’s seen a few houses in her day that were less than clean. 
That’s over now and the papers are signed.  The house is officially on the market and I have to be ready with short notice for people to come see it.  I have to be out of the house on Wednesday from 9 to 3 for the agents to all come see it.
Rich had a softball game today and we just got back and fed the kids and put them to bed.

Now we’re going to try to get take out and have a nice late dinner together.

Relax