It's Friday....again

Another week has past and what an eventful week it has been. Late Sunday a friend and I began planning a potluck lunch for Thursday, at MY house. Those who know me, know this is not something I normally do is have people of to my house. I am a perfectist and have panic attacks, so preparing for this get together took special planning on my part. We'll things went off with out a hitch I had 8 ladies here from my e-mail group and thank heaven everyone had a good time and the food was great. Now to reclaim my house. The last 2 ladies left 5 minutes before my hubby got home from work. I was starting to clean up when get got here, well about an hour later, just I started to think about making dinner, the power went out, it came back on 4 hours later, went back out 3 minutes later, came back on 3 hours later....and has been on ever since. The kids were nice to me this morning and let me sleep until 11:30. So now I sit here still in my pjs and thinking about all the stuff I need to do before hubby gets home in 3 1/2 hours. I'd better get my butt out from in front of this computer and get dressed and get to work....time to rally the troops...uh...I mean....kids.

{{{{{HUGS}}}}} to all. Have a wonderful weekend.

Half way there

I can't believe that summer break is half way done. Normally I'd be totally insane by now but for some reason this summer has been a bit different, yeah they are driving me crazy but not like in the past. It could be the fact that I broke down 2 weeks ago and agreed to buy them a PS2. Now in order for them to be able to play all of their chores have to be done and they have to go to sleep the night before. I'm really proud of my kids, they even do extra chores to earn more time or to earn back time they've lost. My house has never been cleaner.

Finally Friday

Yeah it's finally Friday!!!!!!! In about 4 1/2 hours my hubby will be home for the weekend....yeah no weekend Chapel Duty. We will spend the weekend doing something as a family, not sure what yet but hopefully it will be something fun. I'm just happy to have time with my husband and I am sure the kids are too. And I won't be doing any cleaning (other than dishes) as the kids are getting all the housework done right now and I'm doing laundry.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

{{{{{HUGS}}}}}

It is going to be one of those days

Can I send them all back to bed? Well all but the one that is still in bed? S-2 is still asleep, he loves to sleep in. S-3 was the first to greet me and he had an attitude, that just got an adjustment with a time out. G-1 was the next up, she came out of her room all smiles and fully dressed. S-1 of course has an attitude but not more than is to be expected out of a preteen boy and hasn't really gotten on my nerve yet but trust me, he will be in about an hour or so when he starts bugging me about playing the PS2. Haven't even see the other half today, didn't even wake me up to say good bye before he left for work, oh well, it isn't a first and probably won't be a last.

Here's hoping that the day goes better than the last 30 minutes has...doubtful....it's another rainy day.

Can I go back to bed????

Last night was terrible.....didn't get much sleep. S-3 decided that he didn't have to sleep last night, mind you he is 7 1/2 and has full blown ADHD. I found him in the dining room and kitchen at 2:45 this morning fully dressed. He told me that he was cleaning the house. He had the front door open (thankfully the storm door was closed and locked), and almost every light in the downstairs on.

Sunday Night

Today was a quiet day at home. I woke up around 10:30 and Jerry had all the kids cleaning the house from the long weekend so I wouldn't have to. Jerry made the kids lunch, pizza and I made spaghetti for dinner. All in all it has been a good day. I watched Army Wives like I do every Sunday evening, and cried as always.

Hope you had a good weekend.

Saturday mornings

I usually get up and cook breakfast on Saturday mornings. Well today I made eggs and bacon...two kinds of bacon. I have 1 child (S-1) who won't eat real bacon because it has fat (a health concious 10 yo), so I have to make him turkey bacon (shivers).

We need to go out and find me a chair for my desk but I can't get S-3 to get his morning chores done or to get dressed. Instead he is sitting watching S-1 play on the PS2.

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Our house

Well, we got base housing 7 weeks ago today. We live in a brand new house, not a townhouse or an apartment, we have a single family home. It is so much bigger than what we are use to. I think I'm going to need more furniture.

Why did I.......?

Why did I let my husband and kids talk me into buying a new PS2? I knew it wouldn't be a good idea. Yeah it's hot here in El Paso and the kids don't get to play outside during the day and our backyard is a slope so I can't put a pool out there. My husband and kids argue over which one of them gets to play first and which game they are going to play. And of course my husband hooked it up to the tv in the living room. I haven't been able to watch tv in the living room for 2 days now. Well, atleast they aren't yelling "I'm Bored".

First Blog

Well, I'm not a big writer but I figured that I should start getting some of my thoughts and the things my husband and kids do written down because there are time that they are down right funny.