A Peek at the Poulsens

 Our days at 331 are numbered! I am tired of the jankiness of this house (I swear in the last month the house knows that we're leaving and a million little things keep going wrong. Our poor landlord haha) but this is where our kids have their first memories! This is where we brought Jack and Claire home from the hospital. This is where 3/4 learned to walk, talk, and not run into the street. I look at the peeling paint or our duct taped kitchen sink that sprays when you turn it on more than halfway or the toilet that doesn't fully flush and now that we are so close to moving these annoyances have turned into more sentimental memories, like "awww look at the salmon pink walls in the kitchen. Those aren't really that bad!" (YES, they are.) My last Mother's Day here was a good one. It was actually kind of unusual because Grandma and Grandpa had invited the kids to sleep over in their backyard, but that night it was raining so they decided to just sleep in a fo...

Claire eats on the couch and crumbles her food, leaving traces wherever she goes.  We get so many packages - these are my new Birks that Max sent me!! Stockton has become kind of obsessed with the Amazon Prime "package van." We've ordered books for the kids, a new toaster, new work shoes for Austin, a new DVD cord for the car, toy car bribes for Stockton during the week that he was really struggling, and probably other random stuff that I am forgetting. We play with LEGOs. Jack built a cool car track and Stockton enjoyed pushing his car through. Natalie likes building houses, which was always my favorite thing to build with LEGOs! Sometimes we skip school and just play with LEGOs for our educational activity.  LPS offers a free food pick up each week, and we went a few weeks ago mostly to just get out of the house and I was astonished at the amount of food that they gave us! For four kids they each got 10 chocolate milks, almost as many apple juices...