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Hearing boys watching TV...
Woo Hoo it is Friday!!
I am so glad it is Friday! It was such a stressful week.... At home! Actually work was just fine and I got lots done and am back on a routine and feel like we are moving forward.... And I am off tomorrow and the boys are off for three days and no homework!!
Son1 has been doing very well filling out applications but nothing yet as this is the slow time of year for hiring so meanwhile he is already bored being home all day... Sunday night at 8:30pm he dropped off Danny so we could watch him while their apartments were having maintenance checks... Monday he stopped by and picked up the vacuum and steam cleaner so he could clean the apartment, how many times has he steam cleaned now and I have yet to steam my carpets, lol... Tuesday he came over at 9am to do laundry and didn't leave til 6pm... He took Danny with him though since his apartment was done. Wednesday son1 came over again to pick up his smaller bike since there is a place by his house where people go to ride bikes over dirt jumps that they made... Thursday son1 dropped off the vacuums when no one was home though so we didn't see him that day. And I haven't heard from him today, yet.... He also had dropped off girlfriend's purse asking if I could sew the lining inside that had torn but I never got to it all week and I guess he took it when he dropped off the vacuums... And he needed more help understanding the forms that came in the mail for his unemployment and stamps...
Son2 still didn't find his wallet... And he brought home the catalogs and forms to register for high school so he read me the catalog for two hours yesterday... On Friday's he can have the teachers fill out their grades so they can keep updated, somehow is A's and B's, remember he got merit honor roll for the first semester, well math is much harder this semester and he is starting out with an F and hopefully the teacher put the wrong grade for History cause he can't figure out how he had a B last week and now it is a D.... Plus Monday is their snow trip to Sierra Summit again, I'm sure they will go this time, we are looking at the mid 60's this weekend....
Then there's son3... who went to the vice principal's office last week and again this week for refusal to do work in class... So of course this work comes home so we have class work and homework, so I feel like I am the one being punished not son3... Especially when they are supposed to miss fun Friday which he had last Friday?? so hubby made it perfectly clear to the vice principal that son3 should miss fun Friday today, which he did, I asked him and son3 told me he had detention.... I know son3 is a handful and I knew when he was a toddler that he would be my go to the principal child but I will be so glad when we don't have this teacher anymore... It doesn't help that she didn't want to teach first grade in the first place and that she is not consistent and I think since she is so used to third graders that she expects them to act like third graders... She is always late and mumbles when she talks and son3 is no longer the only child in her class going to the office, as she has not really set up her class to have consequences when the rules are broken, she waits til it is something major and then sends them to the office but doesn't discipline the little things... She keeps saying son3 is smart and knows how to do thework but we have just found out that he refuses to take spelling tests and such, so I don't know how they are going to determine if he is able to go to second grade... Meanwhile he is doing good with the reading tutor although he misses math so that makes for more classwork to do at home.... And not to mention all this week when I pick him up at daycare I literally have to pry him off of chairs and door frames as he doesn't want to leave, argh, so we are working on a compromise of which days he can stay later and which days to come home early so we don't go over our paid hours, we pay up to ten hours a week.... Today he got right up when they told him was time to go so he got to pick a candy as a reward...
And then Lent started on Wednesday and I didn't get to give it the attention I wanted and make a plan of what I would like to dedicate to it, so far I am determined to complete the Lent Bible readings that I start each year and never seem to get to the end, so those will be the Bible entries you see, one for each day of Lent up to and including Holy Week.... I also wanted to work out on the weight system I bought for my 40th bday, this year I will be 44.... you think I would be all buff by now, lol, but not when I can't find ten minutes a day to exercise... and I figured I would do one file or shred or balance a day and see how much I would accomplish during lent... The objective to give up the time out of my day to these things, but here we are three days behind already.... I did consider giving up journaling for lent, I'm sure I would find lots of time then, lol... But journaling is the one thing I do just for me.....
Of course it didn't help that this is my grumpy week.... I think son1 thought all the yelling was aimed at him and that is why he came over when no one was home on Thursday... If girlfriend can be grumpy, well so can I.... And hubby started his new hours so now Tuesday-Thursday he gets home at 8pm instead of 11pm... I told him there are good things to his new schedule and yet bad things, lol, poor thing.... So it's taking a little time to adjust since 8-10 used to be my quiet time with the boys in bed and me usually asleep by 10pm... Now I stay up late with hubby, and have less journaling time... And it must have been Raisin's grumpy week too cause boy was he pissed the two days that Danny was here... Hubby kept saying he missed Kirby, I was like no, he is pissed cause he doesn't want to share the house with the dog... Cause as soon as Danny left Raisin was flying through the house like the kitten he thinks he is at almost nine years old.... lol....
So I have tons to do tomorrow that I didn't get done all week: cards for the month, high school registration forms, clean the house and vacuum, son2's chore calendar, and lots of other stuff that I'll organize on a list tomorrow.... And Valentine's is next week and I haven't even thought of what I want to do for hubby yet....
Meanwhile dinner is ready and the boys have eaten without me, I don't think I have sat down to actually eat this week, just eat here and there in between everything....
So off to eat fish and beans and watch Daddy Day Camp with the boys....
Happy Journaling...
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I'm always amazed you manage so well with a house full of boys. I think I would be grumpy too if I had to deal with all this. Your in my thoughts hon! Oh by the way I haven't given Valentine's another thought either....(Hugs) Indigo
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Holy smokes lady, what a week.
Blessings,
Cindy -
I think Jeannette's journal "Make 'Em Laugh" has just the thing for you, with that video of what a mom says in 24 hours, condensed into 3 minutes.
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TGIF
2/13/08 1:39 AM
LOVE,lisa