Daddy's gone...farewell to Tinkerbell

That is what John David and Sammy say when JP goes to a conference. It was definitely different flying solo with 4 kids for 4 days...but we all survived and had some fun. It was quite obvious every morning that John David missed his daddy. Normally JP takes hime to school in the morning, and he walks him all the way inside the school. With me getting four kids out of the house at 7:15 there was no way I could also unload everyone, so I just dropped him off at the front porch of the school. Every morning he asked if daddy was going to take him inside when he came back.
Anybody who knows me knows that I pick the times that JP is away to get things done. That way he can't give me the "you are crazy look." I mean what husband would agree to paint in the middle of the week. Our weekends are always full of other things, so we just never got around to do things at home. So the project for this trip was to paint Carlos' room so it could become Carlos and Emma's room. I was very thankful to have Sharmila come over two days to help me move the project along. We started thursday around eight and it was done early saturday morning. We bid farewell to "Tinkerbell Green" and said hello to "Evocative Sunlight." I know a lot of you will miss what I commonly referred to as the "Mint Chocolate Chip without the Chip" room. However Emma and Carlos are quite happy in their new room.