Emily at her "Boot Scootin' Boogie" kindergarten graduation program...I kid you not, but cute huh?
<--Amanda on her last official day as a 2nd grader!
I have always thought that celebrating 'graduation' from Kindergarten or 2nd grade- was kinda silly. Yet here it is the end of the school year and I have dozens of pics and videos of Amanda and Emily's 'graduation' programs from school- well, Amandas was only a little end of the year party so that isn't too bad. I swear being a Mom melts your brain. Thank goodness for digital cameras- now I can take 400 million pics and not spend our retirement fund (not that we really have enough to cover that) to develop them! They are so excited to be starting 3rd and 1st grade. I just realized that in just a couple of weeks they will both be gone all day! That is kinda weird. Honestly as much as I complain about the crazy kids, most days I am sad at how little I am able to see Amanda when she is gone by 8:20 and not home until 3:45, next year I will miss them both! I will have to try to make a serious effort to have my work done before they come home so we can chat, and maybe figure out some together time during the weekend.
Since my girls are on year round school they just got out of 'last year' on the 8th and 'next year' starts on August 25th. They have been out of school since Friday...I was ready for them to go back by Monday afternoon. This last week has been the first time I have had all four kids all the time with Josh back in school. ugh. It is amazing that the children are still alive! I swear it is easier when they are in school because it forces me into a routine schedule. Plus Izzy is competing for Guiness' gassiest baby world record...almost every day she goes through a yelling fit for as long as it takes for a huge burp or fart to come out. Boy can that little chick yell! Wow! And she won't nurse when she is mad, which needless to say makes it complicated to nurse her to calm her down- especially since she won't get the bubble out until she calms down. Does anyone detect a pattern here? As Spike would say 'vicious circle' (see Notting Hill)
I am having seriously-overwhelmed-with-all-of-the-stuff-I-feel-I-should-do anxiety over the past few weeks. Not that any other Mom ever goes through that. ha, ha, ha. I think that part of my problem is that I always start with thinking that if I could just get my housework done first then I could start to do all of the other things. I need to realize that IT WILL NEVER BE DONE. The laundry will always be there, the sink will only stay clean until the next meal...if that long. The carpet...*sigh* oh let's not even start on the floor staying clean, that will only make me turn from this monitor to see how horrifying it really is, when I vacuumed about an hour ago. rats, I did it anyway. OK, I am done with my depressing freakout about housework. You all understand what I mean and talking about it for so long is only putting off the inevitable! :)
rant over.
2 comments:
Don't do it Megan, its not worth it, you know housework is so over rated. I am currently ignoring what my floors look like also so you are certainly not alone. Maybe if I ignore it long enough the kids will begin to wonder what is going on and decide to clean up after themselves because they can not stand to live in squalor. Yah right like that would ever happen. Oh and congrats on the graduations.
OH, don't even get me started on messes. Kent has been gone for a week, My entire upper floor is completely torn apart and I have 3 rooms worth of stuff in my office and storage room and bedroom. Yeah, it is pretty much scattered everywhere. Down with cleaning!
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