Does anyone ever feel like their children do not have the same sense of urgency to get out the door in the morning as you do? I feel like the more I tell them (especially Liam) to hurry the slower he gets. He has plenty of time, too. He just dawdles. Honestly I’m not sure what takes him so stinkin’ long. Just get your clothes on, please, so we can get on with our day! Then once we get in the car Colm has about 15 other things he needs to do before he actually plants his bottom in his carseat. Ugh! Just get in the %&^$# car! I was a little frustrated this week. Can you tell?
Archive for June 2007
I have a little under two months to get Colm to realize that he needs to do his business on the pot. Montessori said they will let you have a little wiggle room, but technically they need to be potty trained when school begins. If I could just get him to go #2 I think we’d be okay, but I can’t even get him to sit on the toilet. We are going to be purchasing some of that thick underwear this weekend and see if that works. I know I should just let him run around naked and let him pee down his leg so he figures it out, put when you are trying to sell your house you really don’t want your kid peeing everywhere.
This is the latest and greatest thing in our house. It all started in May when I started tutoring for my summer class. I tutor on Wednesday nights leaving the boys and Sean for what is now “guy night”. Liam looks forward to guy night all week. They play video games, go get custard, go to the bookstore, whatever they decide to do. Liam will ask me all day how long it is until dad gets home when he knows it is guy night. He will also ask me when I am leaving. Oh, the love. It makes me happy though. I love that my boys have their night together and I get to go do my thing, even if it is just doing school stuff.
Since we have zero scheduled activities on Fridays this summer, they are our excursion days. Today’s excursion was to Reading Reptile. It is the bookstore for kids that Borders and Barnes and Noble would like to be, but they can’t because they are too big. Reading Reptile has a toy area, dressup area, a place to play board games and then there are, of course, the books. They have all kinds of neat chairs to sit in while you share a book and there is even a secret hideaway with a rug and a big pillow where the kids can read. They have craft classes there for kids and movie nights on Fridays. They also have a cat who unfortunately doesn’t seem to like kids too much, but he certainly adds to the homey feel of the place. After that we went to Baskin Robbins and had an ice cream cone. I have pics of the ice cream I’ll post later. Colm was a mess…I don’t think I will ever get the chocolate out of that shirt. Oh, well…that’s what summer is for…getting to eat ice cream cones as they melt faster than you can eat them.
We were out to eat tonight (people were looking at our house) and Liam pointed to a picture on the wall and said, “Mom, that person kind of looks like you.” So I am searching the walls for a picture of someone who even slightly resembles me. Stumped, I say, “Where, honey”. “Over there, the one with the glasses”. Apparently I look like John Lennon. Thanks, honey.
One year ago today was the last day I saw my dad alive. We took him out to dinner at this new Mexican restaurant he really wanted to go to. I had never been there, but my brothers had taken him there recently and he wanted to go there again. It was good, but I noticed my dad didn’t really eat that much. He was on the downward spiral at that point and had been for a while, but I didn’t think that was all the time I was going to get with him. What would I have done differently that night had I known? Did I hug him? Did I tell him I loved him? I am sure I probably did. We had taken him out to celebrate Father’s Day. The only thing I can say that I know I would have done differently, had I known, is that I would have tried to take everything in…really just tried to soak up the whole evening. Hug your dad today. Tell him you love him. Soak it up.
I have been using Mrs. Meyers to clean and I really like the lavendar smell, but it is kind of pricy and the cleaners for the countertops leave streaks. So, I am going to start using this. It is WAY cheaper, it doesn’t leave streaks, it can clean tons of stuff and as long as I don’t go on a freakish cleaning binge the house will smell fresh and not artificially clean or too vinegary. I don’t know if I will use it for everything, but I have already cleaned the inside of the frig with it and it looks and smells fantastic. 🙂 I might try some of these, too. Another bonus is if the kids get into it, it is doesn’t matter. I don’t think any kid in their right mind would drink vinegar water, but if they did, atleast Poison Control wouldn’t have to get involved.
I need to get some audio of the conversations that go on around here. Today on the way out to lunch Sean decided to give the boys a lecture on DNA. What is so funny about this (besides the fact that he was lecturing a 5 and a 3-year-old about DNA) is that while he was trying to expand their minds and open them up to the world of genetics Colm was in his carseat screaming about wanting to go to Chuck E. Cheese and that was not where we were headed. Sean and I just looked at each other and chuckled.
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