Sunday March 30, 2008

I have been trying to think why children are so messy?? Is it because they are lazy? Are they just not aware that a house is messy?? My children are very talented at making messes. They even have the talent of getting out of cleaning all together. I ask Ian, "Can you please pick up your room, before you go out and play with your friends?" His reply is "mom, i don't feel like playing with my friends today...so it is ok if i just leave my room messy." I tell him no you should clean up your room anyway, because it will make you feel better to have everything in its place. His reply, "mom, you are funny, i don't care if everything is messy...i know where everything is." Ugh! Golly, i feel like i am losing out! Strike two for mom...i have to become a little more cleaver than my son. So this is what i shout, "IAN, YOU NEED TO CLEAN YOUR ROOM OR YOU WILL GET SPIDERS HIDING UNDER CLOTHES AND IN THE CORNERS!" Ian's eyes get wide with horror at the thought of spiders hiding in his room and he starts to clean! Yay! Mom won this round!
I have been going a little nuts lately with the house being so messy. This is a new thing for me. I never really cared if the house was a little bit trashed...but now, that my children are having friends come over all the time...the house is NEVER clean. Ian's friends are just as messy as he is. I go around the house picking up after about 4 boys all day long (on the weekends) So i put my foot down the other day and now i have the kids picking up every night before they go to bed. Both of the children complain about this....Sashi will throw things at me and stomp away, but i will win (i hope) Ian said to me on evening when i had cleaned everything so nice. "mom, the house looks very nice, but why did you do this...i will have to work very hard at making it messy again." I bit my tongue and turned around smiling at how funny this was, but feeling helpless...that he is right...i guess it is a child's job to mess things up.
Sashi is a very good cleaner when she wants to be. Some days she will run off giggling to her playroom and will clean and clean until it is all done. Other days....well, let me put it nicely....she can really throw a fit. WOW! I hope to heavens that she will calm down as she gets older, because right now...it is frightening. I find it best to let her be when she starts throwing her fits because it just isnt worth the fight to have a room get cleaned, if i have to listen to screaming for the next 4 hours.
I am happy to say, that tonight, we got the living room cleaned! Lots of complaining, but i am glad that it got done. I am praying that the kids will get used to this new "habit" soon.

Well, this is it...i hope you enjoyed it :)

Mia

Today is Easter Sunday!
I don't know why it is called Easter Sunday...it should be called Easter Weekend. Our Easter festivities started on Saturday when Sashi asked if she could have her picture taken with the Easter Bunny. Wow, i thought...Sashi really wants to have her picture taken with a Big, fuzzy, yellow Bunny?? I was shocked...so shocked that i answered yes! Why was i shocked? For those of you who do not know Sashi...she HATES Santa Claus and will scream like someone is trying to kill her if you try and get her near him....so i thought the Easter bunny would have the same reaction. So we went to the Nugget Mall and stood in line to have pictures taken. Sashi didn't know what to think of the bunny once she was face to face with him. But after the bunny showed sashi that they both were fuzzy (sashi had a green fuzzy sweater on) Sashi jumped onto the bunny's lap without a problem. Sashi carried this photo around all weekend long. I think i should put it in a frame and hang it on her wall.
After the Bunny photos....we went to the store to buy eggs to dye. Ian was WAY into this this year and had to have enough eggs. I asked him how many eggs we should get this year and he replied "i know how many." I thought this was very funny so we went egg shopping. I got one dozen eggs. I thought this would be enough. Ian thought about the 12 eggs and said, " mom, if we only have 12 eggs and there are 4 of us...that means we only get to dye 3 eggs each and that just isn't enough." I about died. Wow! This child bellyaches every time he has to do math...but he just thought about this and BANG the answer was given. I said, golly Ian you just did a math problem...i will get you more eggs. We went home with 24 eggs. We dyed the eggs the most beautiful colors. Ian and Sashi had a blast. I am wondering what on earth i will be doing with 24 Easter eggs?? I don't like boiled eggs Ha! I am thinking maybe Ian will be having an egg in his lunch everyday this week *wink*.
On Saturday night...Ian and Sashi could hardly fall asleep. They were tossing and turning in bed until 12:00am. The children woke up promptly at 6:30am wanting to have the egg hunt. We had the egg hunt at 7:00am and then got dressed and went to church. I must tell you the kids have been on a sugar high all day long. I swear they are like little molecules..bouncing everywhere. I am so grateful that they fell asleep. I was starting to wonder if the chocolate high would wear off?!
We had a good Easter even though i think i am going to sleep while i write this post. I hope everyone had a great day.

Love,
Mia

Starting a blog

Golly, I have never done this and really never thought i would. It is funny to to think that this could be seen by many people. I almost want to write tons of witty things, just to make other people think...WOW what an awesome site! I wonder if i have a lot of witty things to share? I don't think so...lol.
So i am starting this new site, because my old site is completely barfing and i am going to kill it if i don't just walk away. It is funny how it isn't nice to swear at other people or treat them unkind, but when i am yelling at my computer I let it go! Colorful language that makes my husband blush!
I am hoping that this site can do things my other site could not. Please wish me luck on my new adventure :)

Mia