So I hate this job. I didn't make the mess. However most of the stuff I was dumb enough to buy. About every six months I make the kids sort through all the toys and organize them and then throw out all the junk we want. There is not a nice way to do this process. It always involves crying, screaming, flopping on the ground, complete meltdowns(and thats just what I do to get them to help me). I have come to the realization again that our kids have too much stuff. So I am giving away the barbies. All of them. I hate barbies, now I know why even though there were six girls in my family growing up, we never had barbies. They are always naked, their hair only looks nice while they are still in the box, and only the kids who don't help clean up like to play with them. So they are in the DI pile. I also realized that my kids don't take very good care of their stuff. Nice expensive American Girl stuff is crammed in the bottom of some bin all wrinkled and ruined. It makes me want to beat them. Not sure how to teach them to have more respect for it. Maybe I will take it all away from them for a little while, that should be fun FOR ME!! Just rambling, honestly we only went through half of the bins today and we will do the other half another day. Last time we did it we made this great big pile of all their toys in the middle of the room, but it was just too much to do all at once. It might be a week before we get to the rest. It only took 2 hours but you would have thought it was the longest 2 hours of their lives.
Anyway Patrick is out of town for most of the week. He is in Logan helping my dad for his spring break, fun huh. What a great guy. He is totally willing to drop everything and help anyone who needs it. Most of the time its me. I am needy.
So I like to do big home improvement projects when Patrick is gone. Last time he left I painted the front room. It just keeps me occupied since I don't sleep much when he is not here. Well we are trying to be good with saving and budget this month and so I really don't have the money for a project, but if I did I really want to put up a big shelf all around the top of Bailee and Ainslee's room and then paint it light blue and purple. It would be really cute with their bedspreads. Oh well the ceilings in the bedrooms are to high for me to do it without Patrick's help anyway.
Teaching a YW lesson tomorrow on honoring your parents. Should be fun. Since I don't think you truly understand and respect your parents until you are a parent yourself. Then you realize that they were just doing the best they could and they were actually incredibly wonderful people who loved you a lot. I also need to write Ainslee's talk today. I asked her what she wanted to talk about this morning and she said "I don't know. Maybe Jesus Christ" Too cute.
I need to post some more pictures but they are all on Patrick's computer. Someday I will get them up.
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