Busy Time

Spring is always a busy time of year!!  For ballet, we are getting ready for the recitals... which means 2 weeks of craziness, since our girls are in different classes and they have to do the shows 2xs each. CRAZY... lol.. but the kids love it and its a great time for the family to see what they have accomplished.
School is wrapping up too... thankfully!  I am soooo done with homework.  Its so difficult the nice it gets to keep the kids focused.  Sometimes they are doing homework for an hour after school and that is just too much in my mind.  (Like tonight... Daddy is on homework duty and both younger girls have been working for 50 mins so far).
This weekend was kinda crazy too!  Saturday we ended up going to some local farm markets to get some fresh local fruit (and bananas... not so local, but its a good snack and cheap too..lol!) and to a family owned grcoery store where we had tons of samples instead of lunch.  Haha.. I know how weird, but the kids thought it was awesome, and we did each buy a 50 cent hot dog to suppliment and ate an apple.  :o) Then we had to book it to the church so I could sing for the Saturday service (and both Sunday services). 
After church, we met up with mike and drove an hour to pick up Precious the Pug (PP).  She is a very cute, silly looking puppy and is pretty well behaved.. ok, she is 7 so shes not to much of a puppy anymore! haha! So far, Tink isnt really into her, but they dont fight, so thats ok.  And PP seems to love Madi... she follows her around alot.  PP's mommy and daddy, our best friends said that PP seems to know who needs the most lovies and makes sure they get it.  :o)
On Sunday, we went to both services, ate lunch, and then came home and napped a bit and then did some planting out front.  We are so blessed to live in a devolpment that does all the landscaping and mowing and mulching, but they dont plant any annuals for color, so we did.  It looks nice! :o) We also took the kids and the dogs for a LONG walk... PP crashed on the porch when were done... lol.  She was wiped out!

On another note, we have been dealing with some negative behaviors from Miss Madi.  I think most of it has a lot to do with Mike's new schedule, but some of it I am thinking is her medicine.  I hate to increase her dose, but that may be whats neccessary.  :o(  We have decided to stop her counseling and find a new place.  We have been dealing with them billing the insurance incorrectly for a couple of months... and I am at my wits ends to fix it.  Meanwhile, we now have a medical bill of over $1000 that we need to figure out how to get rid of becuase we have state insurance AND private insurance and those two things should MORE than cover it.  frustration.  Seriously.  I know that not going to counseling is having an affect on her... but I cant help it right now.  We owe them so much in co-pays becuase of how they have been billing that I cant take her anymore without paying the co-pays.  My favorite part is that they let this get this far without telling us we owed so much.  GRRRR.  Moving on...

We are praying that some of these behaviors can be smoothed out soon... especially with summer coming up. I am looking forward to spending time with Madi and the girls... going to the pool, and park, and bike rides, and all the other awesome fun-ness summer brings, but if she keeps throwing her fits and blatenly disobeying, we wont be doing many of those things.