As much as I wish I could shut my brain off and go to bed I can't, so this is my late night ramblings I guess. ;) We are getting closer to our closing on our house, down to a couple weeks I believe. We have had different situations slow us down but we are well on the way.

Every time we think about this house we feel nothing but blessed. We have recieved much criticism about our decision, but we have also recieved much encouragment. I will however miss this Broadwater house. I have so many memories here. I have often thought about writing a book of all the crazy things that have happened  while we lived here, but even if I did, I don't even know if anyone would believe me.

I found myself having a conversation with Jayden the other day where I busted out the old cliche, If you can't say something nice then don't say anything at all. The second it came out of my mouth I was convicted. How often do I say things that are not encouraging to others!? Treat others the way I want to be treated right. Then out of a totally different conversation she was telling me about how one of her friends had said somthing to her that was not very kind and it hurt her feelings. We had a good conversation about how we can't control what others say, we can only control how we respond. How people sometimes say things without thinking of how it may affect the other person. Out of my trying to comfort my sweet little girl I felt it speaking to my own heart. I am supposedly teaching my children, but sometimes I think they teach me far more! I love my percious little girls so so very much!

So, there ya have it. Now on to other news. We have had some action at the Rykowski house! We had our first experience with head lice. Fortunately Travis and I have been in the clear, so we give loving but distant hugs to the girls. ;) I tell ya what, those little lice are not fun to get rid of. We found out early in the evening they got the little critters so it was instant up to the bath and I tried to get them out while Trav went to the store to get the magic remedy. Even though brooklyn Trav and I didn't appear to have it goin on we decided we were going to be proactive and do everyone. I knew the combing would take a while but we are talking hours of picking tiny little bugs out which seem to be glued in their hair. Travis said, I feel like a monkey picking bugs out of their hair. Hahaha I love how he can make anything fun.  After we finished the girls were certain that after the tramatic events they needed to have a sleepover on the floor in our room.

So we put Brooklyn in her crib and made beds for the other two on our floor and put them to bed while we cleaned every inch of our house and did an endless amount of laundry. About 11 or so Jayden (who had still not gone to bed) started crying that her ear hurt so bad. So her and Avery (who was also still awake imagine that) came in the bathroom and I grabbed a flashight and saw what looked like a giant clump of wax stuck down deep in her ear. Luckily I had some ear candles at home so they were thrilled that I "lit Jaydens ear on fire". Then we of course had to cut it open and look at all the nasty stuff inside. After that I put some ear oil stuff in her ear and they FINALLY went to bed. Then today little miss Brooklyn got into the granola fiber bars and ate three or four of them. Ya... I bet you can guess what happened next. That girl had the most explosive and nasty diapers ever. Hahaha it was so absolutely disgusting, but I can't help but laugh at the thought of all of this. Lets hope tomorrow brings us a little less excitment. ;)