Category Archives: blessings

quiet riot and mr cavelier

Seems odd to be in the city with my bride and not having any children with. I miss them but am also enjoying the time away. Visiting second hand stores, I am amazed at how the prices are on used stuff! One would think that they would generate just as much income of the moved the stuff cheaper and turned their merchandise over faster.

Oh well, not my business model.

Mom and I are talking about the tough love approach to getting chores done at home. Seems that the kids are having a hard time with emptying and fully loading the dishwasher.

Shoot, I remember washing dishes by hand.

More later. 😉

if I pull any more hair out, i’ll be bald

David is in full form tonight.  He is all wound up and attention needy.  Which means that he will do whatever it takes to get attention. Positive or Negative.

Now, some people say “ignore him”.

Easy for you to say, you don’t live with him 24/7.  When he gets like this the other kids hide, and everyone is just along for the ride.

So I am trying to keep him busy.  As part of that, I grant him amnesty for cleaning all of the stuff out of his play area that doesn’t belong to him.  Since he has a pretty serious issue with taking things that don’t belong to him, we can end up with quite a pile of stuff on the kitchen table.

Oh, wait, I hear his brother crying out David’s name in a way that can only make your nerves quake.  Time to mediate the fight.

If you need birth control, we will have you over for dinner one night, that should fix that problem.  In all seriousness though, even with the benefit of his many blessings, I love him dearly.  Just some days it gets to be a bit much.

 

Rockin’ round the library

Well today mom and I took David to the library and then the grocery store.  The library was uneventful, which is always a joy, other than the 20 dollars in fines that the kids wracked up, everything was good. At least we know they are reading…

Being a small town of less than 1800 people, the library was surprisingly busy.

The grocery store was a little different.  David just wasn’t acting right.  Nothing majorly out of sorts, just different.

So we spent our weekly budget on groceries.  Oh, it is Friday isn’t it…

My fibro and lupus pain are both bothering me today.  Yech!  weather must be changing.

More soon.