After an eventful week, we are having a blissfully uneventful weekend. Just working on the house, kids playing and fighting in turns....church yesterday and tommorrow....nice and quiet. I've needed this, a chance to regroup after a hard week.
A highlight was I took Mikaela and Jacob to Beaners this week for the first time to get their hair cut. I have been hearing about it for a while from many other moms and I've been fighting going there becuase I didn't want to "cave"! I mean, what is wrong with the 10$ cut at the mall? But I finally took them becuase Jacob wants to grow his hair to his shoulders and it really needed cleaning up so that it can grow that long somewhat nicely. And Mikaela hasn't got her hair cut since she cut it herself when she was 3 or 4. They loved their hair cutting experience! They got to pick a vehicle to sit in while they got their hair cut and they watched "The princess and the frog" while getting it cut. And Mikaela got glitter in her hair! Her smile almost stretched off her face!

On Wednesday Mikaela had an experince that made her decide that she definitely DOES NOT want a dog! One of our neighbors dogs, a black lab, got out and came up to our place while the kids were outside playing. Mikaela was worried about the cats because she knew that they hate dogs. So she went to get one and I went to pick up the other. Just as she picked up Catty, the dog ran towards her and Catty freaked out and scatched her face trying to get away. It was very scary for her and one of the scratches was deep enough to make me wonder if it would need stiches or not. We were able to see a doctor in Onoway (on his last day before he retires:( ) and he cleaned it and put steri-stips on it instead and it seems to be healing pretty well. But she was very self concious about it thinking it made her look like she had a white mustache and everyone would laugh at her. Traumatic day for her and I, though for different reasons.
Last night we decided to have a special dinner for Easter complete with some decaf coffee for Mikaela with whipping cream in it! Her excitement knew no bounds! She got to drink "real" coffee!