Valentines 2008

Happy Valentines to all of you out there! I hope you all had a great day! Ours was well another day in the life of a mom with three kids. LOL


L got up at 6:30am. WTF? I asked her why are you up so early. I get up at 6:45am to get H ready for school, but I wanted my 15 more minutes. Anyway by 7am everbody was up. I had put out thier valentines on little sacks by the fireplace so they were ever so excited to see them. Anyway I was to send strawberries for H's class today(red theme), I told her to take them, so what does she do, walks out the door without them. I open the door and tell her and she says "NO Mrs. B. didnt say to bring those" I calmly explain to her that the room mom had organized the food and she was to bring these. I should have seen this as a sign for how the day would go. As I was on the computer totally neglecting L and G, L got a cup of juice and poored it all over G's hair, the floor and the train table. I thought it was water at first as I had heard her getting water and told her to put it away. Well after about 30 min when his hair was still wet looking and I felt it, I realized that it was in fact juice. I asked L why she had done that and she said I thought it was funny! I saw nothing funny about it. Well it was about G's nap time so I decided to just wait to bathe him after nap. Well after I put him down for nap I went to get everything cleaned up for the day. Then these beautiful flower arrangements showed up from my mom, I had asked her to send flowers to the girls, as my grandma used to do this and the girls loved getting flowers. Well she sent me some as well.

Yes those are my christmas cards still hanging on the wall behind and yes I know I need to take them down. LOL Anyway arent the flowers pretty. Getting flowers just somehow makes you feel so loved. Poor G I remembered at 2:10 as he was still napping that I needed to get him up and give him a bath so we could leave at 2:25 to get H, so he had a sink bath and he was none to happy about it. Well we got H from school, she came home and went out to play for a while. I decided I would let them play with the shaving cream while I was getting dinner ready. G had never done this and I wanst sure how he would do, and it wasnt so good.

At first he really wasnt sure he wanted to stick his hands in it,

Then he tried to eat it, and finally smeared it all over his face, and was not to happy about it.


The girls had fun though.

After we were done with this, H had a friend over and they were up playing in her room. She came down and said we are watching a movie and want to know if we can have.... I stopped her there because we dont eat or drink in our room. I explained this to her(as if she didnt know) so she said well I am thirsty, so I told her she could have a glass of water, well this threw her into demon mode. She yelled NO as loud as she could and stomped off mouthing all the way to the stairs. So as calm as I could I told her she needed to tell her friend it was time to go home, well this called for super demon child. As she started to yell no scream at me as loud as possible that she would not ask her friend to leave. I told her yes she would or he would not be allowed over again. Well with that she stomped off still screaming at me. I ran upstairs and told her friend he had to leave since she couldnt behave, she was still screaming at me, so I walked over to her and said YOU NEED TO STOP NOW. I escorted her friend home and explained to his mom that he had done nothing wrong H could not behave. When I came home she was still screaming. SO I went upstairs, at this point I had lost my calm mommy mode and was PO. I got to her room and she had locked the door now I was super PO. I told her to unlock the door and she said no, I told her again unlock the door. She did and ran to her closet to hide. I told her to stay in her room until daddy got home. She came out about 2 seconds later and said mommy I need to come downstairs, I said no not till daddy gets home. Then she called L up and sent a note down that said mommy meet me in the living room. I told L go tell her no she must stay up. Finally daddy was home, she came down and appoligized and said I was a bad girl and I told her no that was beyond bad. I gave her a hug and told her I did not like that behavior. So we all sat down to eat. After dinner was bath time, where when it was time to get out she didnt like the towel that she was given so she screamed at daddy, so at 7:30 she was sent to bed. MAN who is this child?!?!?! What the heck is going on around my house this week?
G found H's lunch box and was entertained by it for about 30 min.






Well I am off to eat some much needed valentines chocolate.till next time remember to hug and kiss your family and tell them you love them, today is gone and tomorrow may never come......

My Best friend sent this to me in an email today and I thought it too funny not to share.
Thinking of Having Kids?
Do this 11 step program first!

Lesson 1
1. Go to the grocery store.
2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home.
4. Pick up the paper.
5. Read it for the last time.

Lesson 2
Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who already are parents and berate them about their...
1. Methods of discipline.
2. Lack of patience.
3. Appallingly low tolerance levels.
4. Allowing their children to run wild.
5. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's breastfeeding, sleep habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behavior.
Enjoy it because it will be the last time in your life you will have all the answers.

Lesson 3
A really good way to discover how the nights might feel...
1. Get home from work and immediately begin walking around the living room from 5PM to 10PM carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 pounds, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly. (Eat cold food with one hand for dinner)
2. At 10PM, put the bag gently down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, until 1AM.
4. Set the alarm for 3AM.
5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2AM and make a drink and watch an infomercial.
6. Go to bed at 2:45AM.
7. Get up at 3AM when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs quietly in the dark until 4AM.
9. Get up. Make breakfast. Get ready for work and go to work (work hard and be productive) Repeat steps 1-9 each night. Keep this up for 3-5 years. Look cheerful and together.

Lesson 4
Can you stand the mess children make? To find out...
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains.
2. Hide a piece of raw chicken behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flower bed.
4. Then rub them on the clean walls.
5. Take your favorite book, photo album, etc. Wreck it.
6. Spill milk on your new pillows. Cover the stains with crayons. How does that look?

Lesson 5
Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems.
1. Buy an octopus and a small bag made out of loose mesh.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the bag so that none of the arms hang out. Time allowed for this - all morning.

Lesson 6
Forget the BMW and buy a mini-van. And don't think that you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don't look like that.
1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there.
2. Get a dime. Stick it in the CD player.
3. Take a family size package of chocolate cookies. Mash them into the back seat. Sprinkle cheerios all over the floor, then smash them with your foot.
4. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.

Lesson 7
Go to the local grocery store.
Take with you the closest thing you can find to a pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is an excellent choice). If you intend to have more than one child, then definitely take more than one goat. Buy your week's groceries without letting the goats out of your sight. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.

Lesson 8
1. Hollow out a melon.
2. Make a small hole in the side.
3. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side.
4. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.
5. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone.
6. Tip half into your lap. The other half, just throw up in the air. You are now ready to feed a nine- month-old baby.

Lesson 9
Learn the names of every character from Sesame Street , Barney, Disney, the Teletubbies, and Pokemon. Watch nothing else on TV but PBS, the Disney channel or Noggin for at least five years. (I know, you're thinking What's 'Noggin'?) Exactly the point.

Lesson 10
Make a recording of Fran Drescher saying 'mommy' repeatedly. (Important: no more than a four second delay between each 'mommy'; occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is required). Play this tape in your car everywhere you go for the next four years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

Lesson 11
Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your skirt hem, shirt- sleeve, or elbow while playing the 'mommy' tape made from Lesson 10 above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.