a RANT-read it or not it is up to you! the joys of motherhood!

Saturday? a day to get ready for Sunday? yes.

a day to clean? unfortunately , extra helpers are here which can be nice, but extra helpers are here. helpers that instantly undo anything i have done all week. or haven't done but meant to. and Lance isn't home so i get to do all the lameness myself. well i make the kids help, poor kids.

"Not mee" came to visit my house he brought his friend " Ida Know! " and they spilled multiple sodas around the house today. not me unwound a 50 ft roll of wired ribbon in the living room, and dad bought cheetos puffs that got spilled in my bedroom, by "Ida Know". It's not My turn, and I didn't DO IT , it was the baby and she got it out/left it down. i have heard all those today, when asked , Ida Know spilled a diet coke on the clean laundry. and a brand new shirt.

and while i was picking up laundry off the laundry room floor i happened upon an old vomit encrusted shirt probably a month old that i had the pleasure of picking up with my bare hand. the scent of vomit dust quickly made a new home up my nose. but was canceled out by the smell of bleach as i did yet another load and added the petrified puke shirt , and the diet coke stained one to it. the baby is going on his 3rd shirt change of the day, and this is probably why he hangs out in a diaper all the time. it's all that soda getting spilled around. i know he spills them , but i dunno who leaves them within reach!

i did get sucked into that book i reported on reading yesterday, but really shouldn't be reading it today. i emerged from reading in my room to find a whole box of diaper wipes on the floor and already dry (how long do they take to dry out?). along with the ribbon and the spilled coke on new clothes, and the savers clothes i have yet to put away. and i have wasted a whole week of my getting ready for snack night at our house which in now only 7 days away.

right now I blog for my children's safety to relax a little before we get back to the fun of cleaning today's messes. i found i a nice large raisin on a play room shelf today it was formerly a grape , apparently we have good raisin producing spaces up where the toys are supposed to be, but rarely are. i have no idea how a raisin got up that far unless they were throwing the grapes. which is entirely possible.

i keep the shop vac in the dining room for ease of use, since the dyson can't handle the size of litter/crumbs we have in there. plus it is great for the straws, crayons, pencils and Popsicle sticks . i make the kids vacuum in there every other day with it. it could use it twice a day but Pierce screams the whole time it is on because it scares him.

seriously i am at a loss. i haven't started fly lady yet. shocking i know ! somehow this week got away from me. and i can't believe it is Saturday already!

we are going out on a date tonight, for the first time in months, alone. my friend is babysitting for us. and this afternoon my sister called to remind me of "mom and sisters bead night"! yeah that isn't gonna happen. i am tempted to go but seriously we need to go out together alone! we never go out , and even more rare is the "alone date", we don't pass up the chance to go out with my brother and his wife if they ask us, because they are so fun. and i have my many nights out al0ne but Lance and i very rarely make the time and have the money to go out by ourselves. the last time was the night Harry Potter came out. how long ago was that? July! not good. so i am left to organize the troops to get the house in semi-clean order to have a babysitter. while lance is off working at his brothers house in Roosevelt. delight.
and yet my throat hurts from yelling about "Not mee" and Ida Knows" mess. so i am resting and giving the kids a minute to hide before i start again with the military style cleaning. yeah is it one of those days where i wonder how i got myself into this . and my house is" truly disgusting in every way". maybe i should change my blog title.