20.9.08
19.9.08
School
Molly is sitting next to me reading this because she refuses to do her language arts assignment. For some reason she hates writing and refuses to practice as well. She can talk the hind leg off a donkey, but if you ask her to come up with sentences for a writing assignment she claims she can't think. Personally I think she's just being lazy. This is the only class that challenges her and the one reason she repeats she can't do it is that because she taught herself how to write letters she can only write upper case. So I'm going to have to supplement writing practice.
I don't know what to do about the "thinking problem". Is it a disciplinary issue? Do I spank her for it, since I know if she focused she'd do fine? Do I lead her with questions? I don't want to do all the thinking for her - then I'd be doing her assignment. The frustrating thing is that I know she is perfectly capable of doing this assignment with minimal help from me (and in a short amount of time as well) and she sits around whining and complaining and wasting time. It just makes me want to smack her.
On another note... Molly needs a haircut. Her bangs are in her eyes.
This morning I wanted the kids to get a chance to play outside so I could get things done in here, but I thought "I'll just take the opportunity" (I hadn't had a shower yet.) "to clean up the pool that has been sitting with stagnant water in it for over a month." So I pulled up the pool and there was a snake underneath! Well, I got a shovel to pick up the snake and put it over the fence, but it slithered into the long grass that had been around the pool. Well, that just freaked me out because I didn't want the kids coming across it later. So I decided to mow the backyard. I got the push mower out, but I couldn't get it started so I tried the riding mower. I finally got that started (and out of the barn, which was no small feat) and mowed. Then we cleaned up all the toys and washed off the concrete and I pulled some weeds and just generally straightened. It looks SO much better! I don't exactly know what time I started, but it was no later than nine, I'm sure. We finally came in at 11 because the kids had gotten soaked and were cold and Liam and Lorelei were tired.
The girls were all excited because I decided to take a shower with them. :) After I got out, I filled the tub and they played while I put Liam to sleep and then got Lorelei out and put her to sleep and then got them out and came down to start lunch and school. The dishes still are not done.
And now it's already 2:30 and we're still not done with school and the only "cleaning" I've gotten done (in the house) is vacuuming. I wanted to mop the floors, clean the bathroom and get the basement cleaned up as well (in case the guys wanted to play rock band), but I'm not sure that's going to get done. I guess I could clean up the basement while the guys are doing their RPG (I'm pretty sure they're doing that first.).
And I've gotten a bare minimum of things going for the yard sale. I really need to get working on that. I've missed every single day of my scheduled rooms to go through. Part of it is because I really feel like Bob and I need to do it together since it's his stuff too and I don't want to pull a bunch of stuff out that I'm going to have to put back if he doesn't agree to get rid of it.
I don't know what to do about the "thinking problem". Is it a disciplinary issue? Do I spank her for it, since I know if she focused she'd do fine? Do I lead her with questions? I don't want to do all the thinking for her - then I'd be doing her assignment. The frustrating thing is that I know she is perfectly capable of doing this assignment with minimal help from me (and in a short amount of time as well) and she sits around whining and complaining and wasting time. It just makes me want to smack her.
On another note... Molly needs a haircut. Her bangs are in her eyes.
This morning I wanted the kids to get a chance to play outside so I could get things done in here, but I thought "I'll just take the opportunity" (I hadn't had a shower yet.) "to clean up the pool that has been sitting with stagnant water in it for over a month." So I pulled up the pool and there was a snake underneath! Well, I got a shovel to pick up the snake and put it over the fence, but it slithered into the long grass that had been around the pool. Well, that just freaked me out because I didn't want the kids coming across it later. So I decided to mow the backyard. I got the push mower out, but I couldn't get it started so I tried the riding mower. I finally got that started (and out of the barn, which was no small feat) and mowed. Then we cleaned up all the toys and washed off the concrete and I pulled some weeds and just generally straightened. It looks SO much better! I don't exactly know what time I started, but it was no later than nine, I'm sure. We finally came in at 11 because the kids had gotten soaked and were cold and Liam and Lorelei were tired.
The girls were all excited because I decided to take a shower with them. :) After I got out, I filled the tub and they played while I put Liam to sleep and then got Lorelei out and put her to sleep and then got them out and came down to start lunch and school. The dishes still are not done.
And now it's already 2:30 and we're still not done with school and the only "cleaning" I've gotten done (in the house) is vacuuming. I wanted to mop the floors, clean the bathroom and get the basement cleaned up as well (in case the guys wanted to play rock band), but I'm not sure that's going to get done. I guess I could clean up the basement while the guys are doing their RPG (I'm pretty sure they're doing that first.).
And I've gotten a bare minimum of things going for the yard sale. I really need to get working on that. I've missed every single day of my scheduled rooms to go through. Part of it is because I really feel like Bob and I need to do it together since it's his stuff too and I don't want to pull a bunch of stuff out that I'm going to have to put back if he doesn't agree to get rid of it.
~Long break in which I did dishes, among a lot of other things...
16.9.08
Evening
Tonight was the kind of night I'd like to have every night (minus the Lorelei not going to bed easily). We ate dinner, went for a walk, played outside for a little bit, the kids got baths and now they're in bed (again, minus Lorelei - well, she's in bed, but making noise). It was nice to hang out together and have a minimal amount of screaming and whining.
I'm downloading pictures right now - I have almost 300 to go through. I can do it pretty quickly now, but it still takes some time. I didn't really get to go through Liam and Lorelei's room today. I wonder if I'll have time tomorrow? I'm looking forward to tomorrow being over. I think the kids will have fun 'cause we'll be out and about, but it's going to be stressful for me. And I don't know how Maggie's going to do with dance class. I'm not sure if putting she and Molly in a class together is a good thing or not. Guess we'll see. I'm planning on shopping while they're in class. It will be different with just Lorelei and Liam along!
I think I may have blogged about this before, but it continues to puzzle me. Can all plants live without dirt? So far I've converted a number of plants in my house to water and they're all doing well. Better than the other plants, actually, because I can tell when their water is running out. I haven't done them all, although I'm really tempted to do a few other ones that seem perpetually dry and dying. I have an orchid that is dying. I can't figure out what conditions it wants, but I guess I don't have them. So it will be replaced soon. It's a pity because it was very pretty, but at this point I don't see it flowering again.
We'll have another Buffy session tomorrow. If we watch 4 episodes a night it will still take us 39 nights to watch it. Since we don't watch every Wednesday, it will probably take us a while. Especially since we have other shows we watch starting in January. We might have to add another Buffy dedicated night...
Lorelei is still making noise. That girl just doesn't give it up. She's our only kid who doesn't put him/herself to sleep. Liam already does it. Molly and Maggie did by his age too - and never reverted. Lorelei used to, I think... I can't actually remember. But she hasn't for a while now. I don't know what to do. Crying it out doesn't work - she'll just make herself puke... I know I've blogged about this before, but it continues to be an issue. She's crying now, so I guess I have to go back up since Bob is working tonight...
Photos are done. Maybe I can get them up and posted before 10!
ttfn!
I'm downloading pictures right now - I have almost 300 to go through. I can do it pretty quickly now, but it still takes some time. I didn't really get to go through Liam and Lorelei's room today. I wonder if I'll have time tomorrow? I'm looking forward to tomorrow being over. I think the kids will have fun 'cause we'll be out and about, but it's going to be stressful for me. And I don't know how Maggie's going to do with dance class. I'm not sure if putting she and Molly in a class together is a good thing or not. Guess we'll see. I'm planning on shopping while they're in class. It will be different with just Lorelei and Liam along!
I think I may have blogged about this before, but it continues to puzzle me. Can all plants live without dirt? So far I've converted a number of plants in my house to water and they're all doing well. Better than the other plants, actually, because I can tell when their water is running out. I haven't done them all, although I'm really tempted to do a few other ones that seem perpetually dry and dying. I have an orchid that is dying. I can't figure out what conditions it wants, but I guess I don't have them. So it will be replaced soon. It's a pity because it was very pretty, but at this point I don't see it flowering again.
We'll have another Buffy session tomorrow. If we watch 4 episodes a night it will still take us 39 nights to watch it. Since we don't watch every Wednesday, it will probably take us a while. Especially since we have other shows we watch starting in January. We might have to add another Buffy dedicated night...
Lorelei is still making noise. That girl just doesn't give it up. She's our only kid who doesn't put him/herself to sleep. Liam already does it. Molly and Maggie did by his age too - and never reverted. Lorelei used to, I think... I can't actually remember. But she hasn't for a while now. I don't know what to do. Crying it out doesn't work - she'll just make herself puke... I know I've blogged about this before, but it continues to be an issue. She's crying now, so I guess I have to go back up since Bob is working tonight...
Photos are done. Maybe I can get them up and posted before 10!
ttfn!
2:00
Breakish. Lorelei will probably wake up soon. She was having an allergic reaction to something so I gave her benedryl and about 20 minutes later she came up to me and said "Bottle? We will rock you?" :) That was about 11:30, so she's been asleep a long time. I just got Liam to sleep. Molly and Maggie are coloring - happily for the moment - and telling each other stories about the pictures they are coloring.
School was fine until the last assignment and Molly decided she didn't want to do it. It took over an hour of her sitting at the table doing nothing with no one talking or responding to her before she finally decided she would do it. Then it took all of 15 minutes for her to complete. Ridiculous.
I had my first "aww" moment as Molly's teacher (or rather "home facilitator") today. We were reading a story and she was supposed to predict what happened next and she started to answer and then looked at the picture and while I was watching her face it clicked in her head. It was a funny outcome too, so her eyes lit up and she started laughing. Her whole face in transformed when she looks like that.
I gave in a ate lunch (now). Leftovers from last night. My stomach was growling. But I still feel like a loser.
Tomorrow, depending on how much work she has already, I'm going to get Molly to do stuff for Wednesday as well. She has Sharon at 10 and dance at 1 and between the two I'm not sure when she'd get work done. (You have to add 1/2 an hour for "get ready" and transport time on either end of both activities, so it's basically from 9:30 to 11:30 and 12:30 to 2:30 that she'll be occupied. And if she eats lunch in between, that takes that hour, so it's more like she's busy the whole day.) Anything that's left will have to be done around 3 and that's not a good time of day at all.
If it weren't for school I could have gotten a really good nap today... I need to try to get to bed before 11 tonight. I also need to try to get the basement cleaned up. It's pretty bad. And I need to do laundry. I'm falling behind on that as well. And I haven't gone through Liam or Lorelei's room yet. That shouldn't take too long, but it's hard to do when they sleep so much. I guess I can see if Bob and Steven will watch them for a little bit after they get home from work.
I need to take down the curtain in the dining room and wash it because Liam got biter biscuit goo all over it...
Ugh. I'm so tired right now. I just want to sleep! But I know as soon as I lay down Lorelei will wake up and I'll be more tired than ever. I have to take my pill in 45 minutes. That's not going to help at all. But I'm not supposed to have any caffeine either. It aggravates things. So what am I supposed to do?
ttfn.
School was fine until the last assignment and Molly decided she didn't want to do it. It took over an hour of her sitting at the table doing nothing with no one talking or responding to her before she finally decided she would do it. Then it took all of 15 minutes for her to complete. Ridiculous.
I had my first "aww" moment as Molly's teacher (or rather "home facilitator") today. We were reading a story and she was supposed to predict what happened next and she started to answer and then looked at the picture and while I was watching her face it clicked in her head. It was a funny outcome too, so her eyes lit up and she started laughing. Her whole face in transformed when she looks like that.
I gave in a ate lunch (now). Leftovers from last night. My stomach was growling. But I still feel like a loser.
Tomorrow, depending on how much work she has already, I'm going to get Molly to do stuff for Wednesday as well. She has Sharon at 10 and dance at 1 and between the two I'm not sure when she'd get work done. (You have to add 1/2 an hour for "get ready" and transport time on either end of both activities, so it's basically from 9:30 to 11:30 and 12:30 to 2:30 that she'll be occupied. And if she eats lunch in between, that takes that hour, so it's more like she's busy the whole day.) Anything that's left will have to be done around 3 and that's not a good time of day at all.
If it weren't for school I could have gotten a really good nap today... I need to try to get to bed before 11 tonight. I also need to try to get the basement cleaned up. It's pretty bad. And I need to do laundry. I'm falling behind on that as well. And I haven't gone through Liam or Lorelei's room yet. That shouldn't take too long, but it's hard to do when they sleep so much. I guess I can see if Bob and Steven will watch them for a little bit after they get home from work.
I need to take down the curtain in the dining room and wash it because Liam got biter biscuit goo all over it...
Ugh. I'm so tired right now. I just want to sleep! But I know as soon as I lay down Lorelei will wake up and I'll be more tired than ever. I have to take my pill in 45 minutes. That's not going to help at all. But I'm not supposed to have any caffeine either. It aggravates things. So what am I supposed to do?
ttfn.
8:00 am
It's way too early in the morning to be awake. I must say, though, despite the fact that I was up 4 times in 6 hours last night I'm still not doing too badly, relatively speaking.
9:00 am - Got distracted by Lorelei and Liam fussing and then Maggie woke up and needed to change and then I decided to look at winter stuff for her and put away some clothes and then I had to put Liam down for a nap and get the girls' breakfast.
So anyway, I'll be taking 3 pills on Thursday. (It's supposed to be Wednesday, but I don't know how I'll be and Wednesday is a busy day, so I'm waiting till Thursday.) It will be interesting to see what it does. I really don't like some of the side affects (swelling in arms and legs and weight gain). I'm not sure if I think the payoff is worth it. I know that sounds really silly, since I've been feeling so much better, but psychologically speaking, I'm not sure if I can handle weighing more than I already do. I've been wanting to lose about 100 lbs for a while now and this will not be helping at all. I'm eating cereal for breakfast now, because it's what I really wanted and if I don't eat what I'm hungry for than I'll just keep wanting it, but I'm not planning on eating again until dinner. I know it's not the healthiest method, but it's the one I know and it's the easiest.
I love it when the kids clothes change seasons. I kinda forget what they look like in long sleeves over the summer (and short sleeves over the winter), so I always think they look so cute! :) I might have to buy some things for Maggie. She's smaller than Molly was and Lorelei is even smaller than Maggie, so I know I'll need them for her.
I was thinking yesterday about how hard it will be when Maggie starts school, but then I was thinking that by the time Maggie starts school she'll be 5 1/2 and Lorelei will be 3 1/2 (the same age Maggie is now) and Liam will already be 2 1/2 - a whole year older than Lorelei is now, so it probably won't be that hard! :)
I think I'm actually over the hump as far as the hardest part of my life goes. This past year and a half has been pretty horrible, but now Lorelei is FINALLY starting to play on her own and she can go up and down stairs with someone watching and Liam is already sitting up. Next year he'll be walking and one can only hope that Lorelei will be a lot less cranky. Maybe I can get some stuff done around here then.
I have to reorganize stuff in Liam and Lorelei's room today (according to my schedule) and see if there's anything in there for the yard sale. I think I need to be really hard core about this purging. We'll have 4 kids getting Christmas and birthday presents this year and that's an awful lot of new stuff. There are things that the girls have never (or rarely) played with and I doubt that Liam will be agog over, so despite their educational value I'm going to get rid of them. They just take up space, more than anything else.
Well, I have some emails to write and then school with Molly, so ttfn!
9:00 am - Got distracted by Lorelei and Liam fussing and then Maggie woke up and needed to change and then I decided to look at winter stuff for her and put away some clothes and then I had to put Liam down for a nap and get the girls' breakfast.
So anyway, I'll be taking 3 pills on Thursday. (It's supposed to be Wednesday, but I don't know how I'll be and Wednesday is a busy day, so I'm waiting till Thursday.) It will be interesting to see what it does. I really don't like some of the side affects (swelling in arms and legs and weight gain). I'm not sure if I think the payoff is worth it. I know that sounds really silly, since I've been feeling so much better, but psychologically speaking, I'm not sure if I can handle weighing more than I already do. I've been wanting to lose about 100 lbs for a while now and this will not be helping at all. I'm eating cereal for breakfast now, because it's what I really wanted and if I don't eat what I'm hungry for than I'll just keep wanting it, but I'm not planning on eating again until dinner. I know it's not the healthiest method, but it's the one I know and it's the easiest.
I love it when the kids clothes change seasons. I kinda forget what they look like in long sleeves over the summer (and short sleeves over the winter), so I always think they look so cute! :) I might have to buy some things for Maggie. She's smaller than Molly was and Lorelei is even smaller than Maggie, so I know I'll need them for her.
I was thinking yesterday about how hard it will be when Maggie starts school, but then I was thinking that by the time Maggie starts school she'll be 5 1/2 and Lorelei will be 3 1/2 (the same age Maggie is now) and Liam will already be 2 1/2 - a whole year older than Lorelei is now, so it probably won't be that hard! :)
I think I'm actually over the hump as far as the hardest part of my life goes. This past year and a half has been pretty horrible, but now Lorelei is FINALLY starting to play on her own and she can go up and down stairs with someone watching and Liam is already sitting up. Next year he'll be walking and one can only hope that Lorelei will be a lot less cranky. Maybe I can get some stuff done around here then.
I have to reorganize stuff in Liam and Lorelei's room today (according to my schedule) and see if there's anything in there for the yard sale. I think I need to be really hard core about this purging. We'll have 4 kids getting Christmas and birthday presents this year and that's an awful lot of new stuff. There are things that the girls have never (or rarely) played with and I doubt that Liam will be agog over, so despite their educational value I'm going to get rid of them. They just take up space, more than anything else.
Well, I have some emails to write and then school with Molly, so ttfn!
15.9.08
Just another manic Monday
School was a long drawn out process this morning. Even so, we were done by noon. Molly complains about EVERY SINGLE THING I ask her to do. It's SO fun. (Sarcasm, in case you couldn't tell.) It's still not hard stuff. She knows it all - I think that might be part of her problem. She keeps calling it stupid, which probably means she feels patronized.
I wrote out a schedule for purging and reorganizing the house based on how busy we are on certain days. There are only 12 more days until the yard sale! I haven't done a single thing to get ready for it, including advertise, which I wanted to start doing at the beginning of this month, but I guess I'll wait until the week before... never mind. I just spent a few minutes advertising online, so I guess we're stuck doing it now!! :) The only other thing I have to do is make signs. I'm hoping I can recruit my brother to do the lettering.
Wow. Just looked at the extended forecast to see what they had posted for the week before the reunion and it's all sunny days! It's all in the 70's too, which means maybe I can open the house up! :) (I know the forecast is about as reliable as, well, something really unreliable, but still, it's hopeful!)
I need to clean up the basement again. In the course of the past few days it's gotten rather destroyed again.
My goal for the yard sale is to make everything in our house fit in our house nicely - meaning, without being smushed into spaces and without having every single space filled. (Also, in the case of the kitchen, not having inconvenient spaces filled at all.) I guess we'll see how well Bob's and my marriage is doing... :)
And I'm trying really hard not to eat. I've had scrambled eggs today. And a banana cookie that I ate without thinking (to prove to Lorelei that they were good, since she was pitching a fit about eating one). I've just had it with the way I am.
Lorelei is awake!
ttfn!
I wrote out a schedule for purging and reorganizing the house based on how busy we are on certain days. There are only 12 more days until the yard sale! I haven't done a single thing to get ready for it, including advertise, which I wanted to start doing at the beginning of this month, but I guess I'll wait until the week before... never mind. I just spent a few minutes advertising online, so I guess we're stuck doing it now!! :) The only other thing I have to do is make signs. I'm hoping I can recruit my brother to do the lettering.
Wow. Just looked at the extended forecast to see what they had posted for the week before the reunion and it's all sunny days! It's all in the 70's too, which means maybe I can open the house up! :) (I know the forecast is about as reliable as, well, something really unreliable, but still, it's hopeful!)
I need to clean up the basement again. In the course of the past few days it's gotten rather destroyed again.
My goal for the yard sale is to make everything in our house fit in our house nicely - meaning, without being smushed into spaces and without having every single space filled. (Also, in the case of the kitchen, not having inconvenient spaces filled at all.) I guess we'll see how well Bob's and my marriage is doing... :)
And I'm trying really hard not to eat. I've had scrambled eggs today. And a banana cookie that I ate without thinking (to prove to Lorelei that they were good, since she was pitching a fit about eating one). I've just had it with the way I am.
Lorelei is awake!
ttfn!
14.9.08
Just another pagan Sunday
Taking a break from Rock Band... Bob is feeding Liam. My good deed for the day - helping a spider catch a stink bug.
We didn't go to church today (in case you couldn't tell by the title). We were up late last night and I was... um... drinking and had too much so I could barely open my eyes. In my defense, Bob was serving and I haven't had any alcohol since New Years before I was pregnant with Molly (2000 - 2001).
*Rock Band*
Got to go to bed. I think tomorrow's going to be boring. I have nothing on the calendar and Bob has to take the van to work since his truck is in the shop (so I can't go anywhere). Oh well, I suppose there's always cleaning to do.
Molly will have a lot of school. Monday is the day with the most stuff posted for the week. I try to get it done because you never know what will happen.
A side note - I think playing bass on Rock Band is improving my typing skills...
ttfn
We didn't go to church today (in case you couldn't tell by the title). We were up late last night and I was... um... drinking and had too much so I could barely open my eyes. In my defense, Bob was serving and I haven't had any alcohol since New Years before I was pregnant with Molly (2000 - 2001).
*Rock Band*
Got to go to bed. I think tomorrow's going to be boring. I have nothing on the calendar and Bob has to take the van to work since his truck is in the shop (so I can't go anywhere). Oh well, I suppose there's always cleaning to do.
Molly will have a lot of school. Monday is the day with the most stuff posted for the week. I try to get it done because you never know what will happen.
A side note - I think playing bass on Rock Band is improving my typing skills...
ttfn
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