The Call Of The Wild

It's been a long day. I've had a hard time staying away from the computer but I knew if I started on it I wouldn't want to stop! My husband read my Blog from yesterday and humiliated me into getting some laundry done although I never did get to the trim-work. I spent all morning home-schooling my two kids and cooking. We had almond poppy seed muffins for breakfast, chili and cornbread for lunch and then I made a pan of veggie lasagna to put in the oven later for dinner. It took me until 2:00 to do all that and then I spent another hour cleaning the kitchen up. I did make it to the gym this afternoon though. That is my biggest accomplishment for the day. I was too tired but I thought, "All I have to do is get my workout clothes on and after that it will be easy." It was. Kind of scary that it's so easy to trick myself! I hope my husband doesn't learn anything from this.

I'm noticing more and more that my children have very loud voices. We stopped by the grocery store on the way home. I told the kids that if they could keep their hands off each other they could get one of those free cookies from the bakery. I'm standing in line to get checked out and off they go. My 6 year old comes back and says, "They have the frosting cookies Mom, do you want me to get you one?" I replied, "Yes but just wait until I'm finished here". It's kind of embarrassing to have my kids scavenging food for me. But, as soon as I turn around he's back with my frosting cookie. He was trying to hand it to me as I was whispering, "Just wait till I'm through paying for this", and my four year old is yelling, "Can I have another cookie, how come he gets two cookies and I don't? That's not fair he got two cookies." So he replies in his loudest voice, "It's not for me, Mom told me to get it for her." But my four year old couldn't hear him over the sound of her voice. "I don't think he should get two cookies. Remember we were here yesterday and we were so naughty that you grounded us. You took away friends, movies and Nintendo and he shouldn't get two cookies if he's grounded!" It's all I could do to keep smiling and run out of there as fast as I could, dragging my kids behind me, making sure my frosting cookie wasn't harmed in the process.