Cell phones and house cleaning

Today we spent the day cleaning the house. IT was filthy. Last night Hubby told H she could have a cell phone, so I saw this as my opportunity to get a little cleaning out of her. Silly me! I told her this morning that unless her room and the playroom were cleaned up she would not get to go with Daddy to get a phone. I told her she could clean up those 2 areas while I cleaned the rest of the house. Well in the time I cleaned the living room including picking up, vacuuming, wiping down the furniture and dusting. I painted the entryway, and I cleaned and mopped the kitchen, she hadn't even finished one room. Her excuse was L was playing and was in here way. Funny I clean around them all the time. So I started on the playroom, which wasn't bad since I just reorganized it on Sat. The I told her I would help her with her room. So at about 4:30pm we finally got everything cleaned up. And I got everyone ready and we were off to see daddy. My mom had told hubby that she would get him a new cell phone for his b-day and he wanted the new instinct from Sprint(our carrier), we were going to add H to our plan, but we couldn't so we told her we would go look for a go phone for her. So after spending about an hour in the sprint store with three kids, we got hubby the instinct, and then we headed to target where I knew they had the pay as you go phones. We got her just a cheap $14.99 phone so we can see how responsible she is with it before we dive into a really nice phone for her. So yes we got our 7 year old a cell phone. But her little friends all have them, and I think it will be nice when we have school and activities that I can get a hold of her if need be. So she got just the most basic phone, I promised her we would decorate it for her so it looks pretty. So I am sure that is on our agenda for tomorrow. I am not sure how long it will take before it is activated, I went online to do it and it said it could take 1-2 days for activation. How crazy is that?!?


Tomorrow we will have the ECI people come out to fill out our paperwork for G, and then we are going to the school building to see about getting H into the magnet school. I got a new report today that the school tested exemplary last year so that is very encouraging. I will let you know what we find out tomorrow. Wish us luck.


As we were at Sprint tonight, G proceeded to make himself throw up everywhere, it was great. He hasn't done that in a while. I hope we don't start that again. I feel so bad when he does this, he does it as a control issue, in a world where he has little control over things, he can control this so he does it. I know it is gross, but he is not bothered by it at all unless he gets it on his hands. Please pray for him that we get his issues under control. Well I guess that is all tonight, thanks for checking on us. Till next time remember to hug and kiss your family, today is gone and tomorrow may never come................


As promised here are pictures of the finished swing set!