Television

I mean what else am I going to do with my husband gone? I know, I should read enlightening books, meditate, enrich my life...blah blah blah. All I want to do once these kids go to bed and the house is finally in order is veg out. Bless Dish Network for assisting a Mom with her desire to not have to "think" for a few hours. And bless DVR for not making her sit through a single irritating commercial.

I'm so exhausted and I really should get to bed but...hey what's that?
Oh look, another Oprah show about really "rich" people in debt up to their ears. I love those shows! Whats up with Dr. Phil? Does anyone else think he's heading to sort of "white trash" tv? Baseball (skip), Hunting channel (skip), Some war documentary (skip). There are some benefits to a husband being gone at night :)

Well, that's all for now. Fact: "The Office" is starting. Fact: I really need a life. Fact: If I see one more "Bee Movie" ad on NBC when attempting to skip through commercials at rapid speeds I'm gonna puke. Fact: This fact stuff is only funny to you if you watch the office.

My 2 year old

I'm grateful I get to hang out with such a cutie every day. I'm grateful that she's independent. She gets her own water out of the fridge now. This morning she had about 8 cups lined up on the kitchen floor with water in them. I'm grateful that she eats only the top of ANYTHING frosted and proceeds to completely annihilate the remaining portion into tiny microscopic pieces that even the vacuum can't seem to locate yet it is visible. Right now she is picking up a HUGE bucket of crayons and pens that she spilled on the floor saying "Did you REALLY do that??" Over and over again. These are just a few of our moments today. Just before writing this I was looking at her cute face deep in thought while she played pretend with her Barbie and she caught me. She said, "What?" I said, "Nothing." She said, "Then what are you looking at?" Well excuse me!

Thank you Tylenol Cold and Sinus

Feeling sick, like such a loser. What is it with illness that makes you feel like your never ever going to get better and that this is the new you for the rest of your life? I wish the baby had a switch on him. I’d just shut him down until I was feeling rested and well. Payton is suspended (again) and home and talking my ear off. He’s doing schoolwork and it’s such a struggle. I don’t know if I could home school this guy. He gets distracted so easily with something as simple as sharpening a pencil (the pencil sharpener ran out of batteries so he had to pull everything out of the cupboard to get to some new ones. And yes, there are 15 other sharpened pencils in the pencil cup, however he doesn't want those.) Or how about hanging an art picture on the fridge. He is currently doing that one. The magnet had to accidentally drop under the fridge…hmmm…better find something to fish it out with…lets dig through the junk drawer. Still no luck…even though there are 50 other magnets on this fridge, I’ll “borrow” a magnet from mom’s calendar that falls every time someone breathes on it. Whoops there goes the calendar and half the items hung on the fridge. Now he’s standing there with his arms full of pictures and magnets trying to hold the calendar onto the fridge and looking around for support. I mean all this to hang a picture!! I really need to try harder with him. I resolve to study how to behaviorally treat ADHD kids and see how he responds. I feel for his teachers who have to deal with getting him to accomplish things on a daily basis! I have noticed if I make him a “to do” list he does really well. (inserting foot in mouth as he is currently whining and throwing toys because I told him he had to do the items on his list in order, and could not pick which things he wanted to do first). Sigh……Someday I will have him figured out and by then he’ll probably have black fingernails, be piercing his tongue and calling me by my middle name “Lucille”.