Wednesday, February 17, 2010

i love him......


Just wanting to complain and cry and grumble...I hate that about myself. I hate that I want to. Everyone has been sick and now its my turn, but I don't want one. Who will cook cheap good food? Who will do dishes? Who will watch the children? I suppose things will get really messy and the house will smell stale and the kids will watch to many movies and I'll come out of a feverish stupor feeling guilty. But life will go on and things will eventually get done. I want to be the strong one, the one who carries on in the midst of trouble. Nothing gets the strong one down and the strong one never feels like grumbling or complaining. But today I am not the strong one and I wanted to complain about it...

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

OK it's been awhile. We got off to a good start this year with the homeschooling but soon I was looking into "new and improved" ideas... So I switched our history and revamped science then began to think maybe I should just do something completely different. UGH! I have now come full circle and realized that what I've been doing is what is best, funny! So now I am again happy with the choices I've made and am happy about the new history and science. It's frustrating that I do this every year but it's probably best too keep me feeling focused. I have fully researched every other available option and keep coming right back to this, that's a good sign!

Now I need to figure out what happened to my son? He's decided that he is going to fight me tooth and nail with the school work! Ahh, this to shall pass (I hope!)...

Monday, June 8, 2009

another arlo nugget..

Today is my little man's birthday so of course I need to share something he said. Last night after we put the boys to bed we heard Arlo singing, sweetly,"Silas is a dummy, a dummy, Silas is a dummy, yeah!" We yell,"that's enough of that.." A little lower we hear,"Papa is a dummy, a dummy.." We call him into the room and tell him it's not nice, we don't want to hear that, ect... He looks at us sweetly and asks, "then WHO can I call a dummy?" we say "Nobody!" Arlo:"I need to call something a dummy then!" We tell him he may call his stuffed gorilla a dummy (hoping he'll loose interest). Next thing we hear on the top of his lungs, "DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY, YEAH". and not just once.

Friday, June 5, 2009

another day...

So I cleaned the the carpets this last week. It took me three days so I could allow for routes to the bathroom etc.. I'm finally finished and proud of myself for doing it slow, ensuring there were no mishaps... yesterday as I'm putting everything back Arlo is screaming for me....he had an accident that included poop all over the bathroom and through the house to the garbage and back!!! lesson learned? Pride goes before the fall:) Thank God I still have the carpet cleaner...

Friday, January 23, 2009

just thinkin'

My only question is, "how hard can it be to clean a small house?" I used to fly through it and be done but I can only get the first three rooms done. Then I start the next day trying to finish and the first three rooms are trashed. I do this over and over... But on the bright side school has been going super good, looks like I finally found my groove. And I'm still working on the smallest Hammond. I wonder if it's true about redheads having the worst tempers, because I have a redhead with a major temper problem, and patience isn't my strong point. Ahh, more areas that God can mold..poor God. After all I am not three but...much older. I am actually beginning to see the areas I am most overwhelmed in with the kids, I myself have residual if not full blown issues in. Well maybe I can work through stuff with them, and be a little bit more understanding.