Half-Birthday

Just wanted to say a huge thank you to my BFF in Texas for the half-bday package I received in the mail. What a great surprise!!! Dark chocolate candy - yummmm, Dark Chocolate Trail Mix - love it, 3 new books from an author I didn't know about but sounds very enticing - yay me!!! Love it! Thanks bunches "Tabbi"!!! ;-)

So glad it's Friday!

Ok. So, I was going to write on this daily to let out my "angst" and ramble to my heart's content. That hasn't happened. Last week was Spring Break (yay me!) and this week it was back to school with all the heartfelt joy that entails. Plus my oldest had an endangered species report due, complete with diorama, t-shirt and/or poster due today. When did she find out about it? A month ago. When did we check out books from the library? That same week. When did we buy the t-shirt, fabric crayons and diorama base? On Spring Break. When did she start on it? This week. When did she finish it and had to turn it in? This morning. (sigh) At least it was done, but who knows how the oral report will turn out. She is stuck on that wolves are useful to humans because we eat their meat, and no matter how many times I've told her that we don't, she can't seem to get it out of her head. Then she said that the farmers and settlers in the old west started hunting wolves to feed to their farm animals!!! AAARRGGHH!! Anyway, we got her to school with everything intact (she'd used scrap booking paper to do the background, trees, mountains and wolves - used popsicle sticks glued to the back to stick into the foam base - which was also covered in scrap booking paper - the wolves were a simple origami pattern that she could do herself and it seemed the other kids were duly impressed when they saw it). The only problem was this was a special morning at the school for moms to come up and do things with the kids, so the parking lot was over-flowing but I lucked into a parking place on the second row. The kids were cheering and saying it was a miracle! ;-) Then I got them all inside and told the middle one (I think I'll refer to them as O for oldest, M for Middle and Y for youngest) that I'd meet her around in the hallway by her rooms after I helped O get her stuff to her room. Of course, Y flat refused to be pried loose from me, so she trailed after us dragging O's poster. I finally got O to her hallway but she didn't want to go into her room (she's painfully shy) until one of the kids she likes showed up in the hallway and was stunned by the wonder of her diorama (as opposed to his shoebox covered in notebook paper) so it made her feel good and she agreed to go on in. I still had to walk behind her and push her on into the room. Then I left, still with Y clinging to my hip, and went to find M before class started. I found her, but she was VERY upset that I'd not appeared sooner, then she started bawling in the hallway and said I never do anything with her (cue HUGE guilt trip for already overtired and stressed Mom) so I promised that if nothing else the two of us would drive around in the car together this weekend so she could have me all to herself. Of course, I know that she'll start angling for me to take her somewhere and buy her something so I'll have to watch that. She's quite adept at sulking and doing the over-dramatized "you just don't love me like you love the others" scene. (deeper sigh) I finally got her off to class, still whimpering and sniffling, saw one of her friends that I know well and asked her to be extra-nice to M today, and made it down the hallway without bursting into tears myself - still with Y attached to me. I made it to Y's room just in time to get her on the attendance, and explained to the teacher that she wasn't late, but had been with me to O and M's rooms first. Of course, by this point Y was wailing like a banshee and I was close to tears myself so the teacher kindly pried her loose and I made it to the hallway, where another mom patted my shoulder and said "oh, don't cry" which of course made me start crying. I finally got out of there and made it back to the house where my DH was getting ready to leave and told him I was ready to go play in traffic now. He laughed and asked if we wanted to try and take them to the movies this afternoon as he may be able to break free early today. Yay! Maybe I can nap.

What a Night

I am going to be so tired today thanks to my lovely little ones that played jack-in-the-box all night last night, and my DH that blissfully snored the whole time and was completely unaware of it all. (sigh) Things that I thought about while up and down with them and trying (unsuccessfully) to get back to sleep each time: "multi-tasking and how good I was at it when I was working and why am I so dain-bramaged now; why is it that Spring Break is only a break for the teachers and staff at the school because it's not a break for me (when I'm not so tired and cranky it's nice to have them home); how does my DH sleep through everything and is he really asleep or faking; were those noises outside someone trying to break in and do they realize how cranky I am and what I'll do to them; did I renew all the things from the library or do I owe them more money; if I take the little ones to get their hair done tomorrow will they sit still long enough for me to get mine done too or do I wait till they go back to school; what will I write on my new blog and will anyone care; do I care if anyone will care; will it really be good for me to get all these things out and posted on the internet; that character on one of their shows they like to watch who said "the internet is forever"; do I want things out there forever; will I ever get back to sleep; how can a child with three blankets on their bed still have toes that feel like ice cubes; who is sneaking up on me this time and how soon can I get them back to sleep; I'm going to thump my DH if he lets that alarm go off more than once in the morning" Oh well... they are only little once so I'll enjoy it while I can. At least they are getting ready now so we can get out for a while today - maybe - if I don't fall asleep sitting here. I'd better get moving now. (deeper sigh)

Too Tired

Ok. So, I got on here and started a blog because my DH said that it might be cathartic for me to post things online as I like to talk a lot about just about anything and there's just not enough time in the day for me to talk to him about it all. The problem is that now I'm too tired to do anything more with this tonight. I'll just have to wait and see what free time tomorrow brings. After all "tomorrow is another day". ;-)