Well Dacia, thanks for making me feel guilty! :) I check the blogs quite a bit...but recently just have not had much or wanted to say much. A lot has been going on, but nothing extraordinary. Life has just been passing me by. I get through day to day, not really sure how. But I make it through. To say I've been unhappy lately would be an understatement. I've always heard that years 5-7 really can take a toll on marriages...guess we are finding that out. Kris impressed me though and made a counseling appointment for Tuesday night. So maybe we can start to figure out who and where we are as a couple.
On a positive note, Kris and I will be able to pay off ALL of our credit card debt within the next two months. Kris decided to cash out his 401K from Met and that will arrive by the end of next week. That will knock out the majority of the debt and then in August we should recieve a little over $3000 from his retirement from Met and that should take care of the rest. It will be so great. I wrote everything out today and came up with a budget that will allow us to save but also give us some freedom and flexibility with our finances. I'm so excited! Now if we can just stick to that budget! That will be the hard part. I need to open a checking account where I transfer all the stuff we are trying to save directly over when he gets paid. If I don't do that...we might end up finding ourselves in the same place. This will be the third time we are out of debt...you know how the saying goes. We'll see!
The kids have been about as crazy as they could be. This entire week there has not been one calm day. And I know--can you have a calm day with 3 kids so close in age (or any 3 for that matter)? Well, there are days that I would consider calm. There were NONE this week.
My frustration turned to laughter by the end of Tuesday night. It was just ridiculous. So, for the most part earlier in the day they were ok. They didn't really fight much. Then later on I found an empty koolaid package (black cherry-not that that part is important besides the fact that it is dark red). I didn't think much of it...until I went into the living room and found a baseball size spot on the carpet where the koolaid had been opened up and poured out. Now keep in mind that this was just the powder. I think there was a little milk or water in the center...but I didn't think anything of that either. Actually I just didn't think. So, I got the woolite oxy deep out...BIG MISTAKE. Remember that baseball size spot??? It became, within seconds about the size of a small child! It wasn't long after that that I decided to give the kids chocolate milk.
So, the chocolate syrup container was empty (or so I thought) and I put it in the trash. Katherine came into the living room (maybe about 10 mintues after I had TRIED to clean up the koolaid) and said that Kaleb has the chocolate syrup. So I go into the living room to find that Kaleb had indeed gotten the chocolate syrup bottle which I thought was empty and had proceeded to put that all over the carpet in the giraffe room. Well, not all over, but ENOUGH. So, that was interesting...both spots still are not completely cleaned...after about 5-6 applications of spot shot and it still was not clean, I decided to give up for a while.
Okay...so that in and of itself was enough for the day to be "hectic." Well, during dinner, I had made a comment on the amount of things that had been spilled today (I think there were more before/during those other two that were mentioned). Seriously...right after I said that, Abbey proceeded to take the lid off of Katherine's sippee cup. Fortunately it just had water in it...but that ended up all over the floor in the dining room. I just laughed. What else could I do??? Okay, now this next story...I am not kidding-happened probably within 10 minutes of the other.
Katherine came into the dining room where we were playing cards. This is what she says: "Mommy, Kaleb has the coffee." My heart sunk. I knew that meant that not only did he have the coffee (it was the instant kind...coffee grounds...not already made), but that he had most likely opened it up. Sure enough, as I walk into the giraffe room...coffee all over the entrance to the giraffe room. I just kind of screamed! I was in shock I think.
I still shake my head just thinking about it! I seriously need like a week off. Other people with jobs get a vacation...can't I have one? And all of this is WITH me taking wellbutrin! I can't imagine what would have happened if I hadn't been taking it. Actually I know what would have happened...either one of my kids would have gotten hurt or I would be in Florida right now staying with my grandma and visiting the beach!
Anyway....I guess that is all that is going on for now. Dacia, I will try to be better about blogging! :) Just teasing you. I'm glad you had a "good time" with Kyle when he got home! :)
Jenn...when are you going to come over for dinner??
Okay...I see there is a place to upload images on here, so I will try that since I could not get pictures on here the other day.
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