Multi-kid Day!

July 30, 2013

Today is the first meeting of the Neighborhood Group Ladies book club.  It was scheduled to be at Leslie's house, but when I found out Art was going to be out of town I asked her if I could host it at our house.  She said yes.  Then we found out that another one of the ladies' husband was also out of town, so I invited her to come over with her kids and put them down at our house while we have our meeting.

It was a bit of a zoo of course getting 6 kids ready for bed!

Here are the kids minus baby Caleb, who was with his mom, during bible story time.  They all picked out a bible story, but I did not have the time to read them all.

While it was crazy, it was definitely fun having them all over.  We need to try again when the husbands are in town and the adults can play games or something.  

The baby did not want to go to sleep until the meeting was nearly over, but J and N were plenty good and went to sleep.  They shared the guest room with our pack n play and C was in our room with Meeah's pack n play.  A good set-up.  My boys were bummed that J was not allowed to sleep on the mattress in their room like when T comes for date night.

The meeting went well, and it was fun having all the ladies over.  I made fresh lemonade (from the neighbor's tree), and put out some candy.  Leslie brought some goodies and fruit, so we were well represented.  There were just 5 of us until the very end when Christy brought her stuff to store in our garage for a few days while they were moving out of their temporary housing, into a hotel, then into their 'permanent' housing.  We all helped her unload her overloaded car into our garage then everyone took off.  

I am glad that Meeah was willing to try the crazy arrangement!