January 15, 2008
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Crafting Queen
When Rainee realized that she was too young for basketball she was a bit sad. Especially as her very dear friend Rosey is old enough for it this year. So I told her it was quite possible that the coach would let her practice with the team if she wanted. (he's a very sweet man) Or she could stay home and we could craft or make cookies during the practice time.
Last week was the beginning practice and so we stayed, but tonight was the first at home with mom.
She informed me just as we were leaving that she wanted to.
A. Make cookies
B. Scrapbook
C Play the Video Game
D. Make Play Dough.
All in 2 hours not counting that we had to go pick up the three middle kids and drop off Zeria in the middle of that.
I tried to discuss that time-wise she had too lofty of goals. She melted down. I rolled my eyes and droppecd it.
Her melt downs are very mild. Just a bit of sad face and a teensy amount of tears. "Well, we'll see." I observed and scooted her into the car.
We didn't make cookies, and we didn't scrapbook. But we did make play dough (as was my plan) and she played the video game for 45 minutes without any one bugging her.
She never pointed out we didn't get to do the other things--Jeremiah did however. He was quite miffed that there was no cookie baking.
What am I super mom? LOL
Oh well, I guess now that I know how important cookie making is to BOTH of them we shall attempt that next Monday. Or con daddy into helping them Wednesday. *shrugs*
Silly kids.
I spent most of this day with a nasty sinus headache. Is it a Monday thing? It was so bad I laid down on the bed for a "few" minutes at 9 am. At 11 am Rob came in and asked me if he needed to call in sick. I'm not sure where those two hours went...
But I do know that my house looks like I had a sinus headache. *cringes*
The kitchen and the laundry room are not pretty places. My kids took full advantage of the fact that mommy was tuning them out and not checking in on them.
Their gonna regret it tomorrow when my headache is gone. LOL At least I hope its gone tomorrow...
Comments (7)
Yes, you are a super mom; just not "Super Mom" as in the crazy ideal that we often get into our heads. I have really had to deal with that again with being incapacitated for so much this past month. I am determined to do something about the disorganized parts of the house tomorrow. The kids have done "pretty good" but it just needs a maman touch (pitch and chuck as well).
Hope you are feeling better tomorrow morning.
I hope you get to feeling better!!
Kids see everything from such a kid's perspective...
Of course you are super mom. You prove it with every post! Hope the headache is gone this morning.
And men think Moms don't do anything while they are at work. My dil has severe migraines. When she is indisposed (sometimes for several days) Each kid has a room they have to put back together by the end of the day or a designated time. (My son sets this time) It works fairly well and they are 5, 6, and 8 years old.
I love your way of getting some good one on one time with Rainee. I love doing these things with the grands..
Of course you're supermom. Silly mom, asking a question like that. LOL Can I have a cookie?
hope you are feeling better - and baking cookies too!
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