Tuesday, August 5, 2008
In case you aren't familiar, this is the scene from The Wall where the kids become faceless and walk into the meat grinder.
I registered Andrew for kindergarden today.
This is how I feel today
New blog title
I decided to rename my blog...so I came up with a nice catchy name... and then googled it and found out it was a book. Oops. Can you say copyright infringement lawsuit? So that had to go. So now I am stumped and am taking suggestions.
Complaining with a disclaimer
*This post in no way implies that I do not love and adore my children, and does not mean that I am wishing this time away. I love all the cuteness that comes with this age.
BUT.
O.M.G. The Whining. Liam is just about 15 months and it is in full swing. Yesterday I was trying to cook dinner (trying being the operative word) and he was between me and the counter, whining and moaning. It makes it very hard to open the oven and to even open a drawer. I was able to distract him for a moment with something, and then raced back to open a drawer and he was prety fast and naturally got there the same moment I got the drawer open and banged his head into it. Sigh. I just needed a freakin spoon. This morning I was around the far side of the table wiping the table and he was clinging to me, Elaina was cornering me asking me something and I couldn't move and I was just like, "OMG I just want to wipe down the freaking table."
Of course he is totally adorable with his kisses and dancing and waving and "talking"... but sometimes a mama has to vent, kwim?
I love bags!
Saturday, August 2, 2008
All kinds ... diaper bags, pocketbooks, miscellaneous... doesn't matter. And apparently, the bag doesn't even have to be for me in order to get excited about it! Here is Elaina's new backpack. It's the same one Andrew got when he started preschool, except his is red.
Then last week we were shopping at the mall, and I found this backpack and lunchbox at Children's Place. I had not been planning on getting him a new one, as his old one has stood up wonderfully, but I just loved how the lunchbox slides into the backpack and gets clipped in, so it won't get lost, which I have documented below. We had some minor disagreement over whether to get red, blue or camo, but we ended up with red and I love it. Oh yeah, so does he.
Now the last bag is one for me. I have been wanting one of these for a long time and I finally got one. I am always carrying so much stuff, especially in the summer when we go swimming at friend's houses. I had them put "Mom" on it instead of my initials because my nickname and my real name start with two different letters. (This has caused a lifetime of initial confusion. Thanks mom and dad) So I went with MOM.
This bag is HUGE! I love it. It is the large size, for those of you contemplating the purchase. I put the kids backpacks in so you can really see how big it is.
August!
Friday, August 1, 2008
It is August 1! I am very happy to announce this, as it means that school starts in 17 days. It is also 6 am, which I am not as happy about. I was sleeping, and there were all these feet all over the place and I couldn't sleep. I realized that Elaina was in bed with us, which I normally don't mind too much, but her feet were all over me. So I took a blanket and went on the floor in front of the fan. But, being that it is 6 am, I couldn't fall back asleep so I got up to make coffee and saw that Andrew was in our bed too and John was gone. Freakin musical beds here.
Anyway so now I am up and at least I have a few minutes of quiet and relative sanity before the chaos begins.
Random Thursday thoughts
I am sitting here listening to my kids play in the other room. My daughter has a friend over and my son just cannot stand that there is someone here for HER. In reality, he gets along with this little girl just fine and they were playing together. Now I just heard him say "Anyone who is nice to me gets to come to my birthday party." Nice bribery.
Anyway I am EXHAUSTED, having stayed up till 1 am reading online and browsing through Flickr. I am having a ratehr large cup of coffee right now (cup #3) and hoping it will get me through till tonight.