Getting Ready

My brother, his wife and my two adorable nieces will be here in two weeks - I cannot believe it - I am so excited. I have so much to do to get ready. For one there is the whole sleeping issue - they are going to take our room - because our guest room only has a full bed and they will not all fit in there comfortably. But I have to borrow a pack and play from someone (I have no clue who) for Sadee to sleep in and I wanted to get one of those blow up kids sleeping bags for Emma - but everywhere I look they seem to be sold out of them.

Since I am a total type A person - I have everything planned out for their trip - we are going to go to the zoo and then I am going to have a big family BBQ so everyone can see them and then we are going to have an Easter egg hunt for the girls on Easter sunday and my cousin Ricky will be making dinner for us that night.

I have to get my food store list in order - it is going to be a big order - I am going to try and only have to make one big trip - 3 meals a day for 6 people is going to be alot. I have to figure what I will make for each one. I still have not decided that yet. I just hope the weather works for us and it is nice - so we can go outside and do all the things we want to do. This is going to be the first time Sadee has ever been up here - it is going to be crazy having two babies in my house - I told John it will give us practice - LOL.

I better baby proof too - my house is surely not baby proof.

In a way this is a good thing because it is keeping my mind off John and so I am not picking at him and fighting with him. I wish that things will just get better with us - but I guess it is just going to take time.

My brother is coming up here - because he gets leave time - because he is suppose to be leaving for Afghanistan in early May - I am in denial and trying not to think about it - he is the only family I have left and I do not want to think about him being in a war zone.

My sister in law sent a recent picture of my brother to me - since I have not seen him in almost a year and he is so skinny and tan - I guess it is from all the training and field work he is doing. I said to John that I better not stand next to him or I will look huge. I will of course post pictures once they leave.