Blog Therapy

So I haven't been feeling the best the last couple of days... R and I both have a summer cold/allergies/something going on and so my patience is somewhat thin.  I also try not to post too much about bad days or behavior issues on here because I use this as our scrapbook.  It's not my journal, but for the kids.  I do think it's funny to hear about when I was little though... the good and the bad!  I also love the read other people's family journals... maybe we are headed in that direction?!?  Well, last night was a two-big-glasses-of-wine-kind-a-night and today is headed in that same direction.  :)

This morning I decided today was going to be a great day and wanted to start it off right.  I made a big breakfast of scrambled eggs, sausages and biscuit donuts... YUMMO! 

Cole and G are used to a pretty set schedule and routine during the school year, so I try to keep my kids on a schedule throughout the summer too... TRY is the word here.  Swim classes are only at 11... okay, Cole will miss and hour of his morning nap... fun...not!  He sleeps awesome in a crib, but not out and about or in the car/stroller.  I see parents carrying their toddlers who are asleep in their arms and I am so jealous.  It's not because I didn't try it either, we were always on the go when C was little... he's just a light sleeper.  Well, he also doesn't want to stay in the stroller when it's still... I could make him, but nobody today at Winkids wanted to hear him screaming.  He also thrashes his body about so hard he can knock the stroller over.  Yes, seriously.  After about 10 minutes of goldfish (which later caused him to not want lunch...) I let him out and he proceeded to be the out-of-control toddler running around like a chicken with his head cut off with me following behind, apologizing.  People were so nice and kept saying how cute he was... I thought about asking them if they wanted to chase him around so I can watch #1 if they thought he was so cute...?!?!  G did great at swimming, Cole didn't break anything or swallow anything, it was a success.  I thought it would be nice to meet Daddy at Chipotle for lunch afterwards...

and then free Slurpee's at 7-eleven today!  What a treat!  Surely because I had a good attitude and we were doing lots of fun things, my kids will act perfect and this perfectness will demonstrate to me how much they love me and appreciate all of the special things I plan for them during the summer...  WRONG!  Grady whined throughout lunch, Cole didn't eat lunch because he had eaten goldfish at swim lessons during his nap-time.  After we got home, G proceeded to do the opposite of what I asked/wanted him to do.  Grrrrr....   and Cole was into everything, including dumping the entire green glitter out from the craft cabinet all over the floor and then rubbed it all over his face/body... and walked through it = all over the house.  Awesome. 

Nap-time did NOT come soon enough.  Grady got sent to his room early and will probably sleep until 5, which will mean he won't fall asleep tonight until 10.  At least Daddy will be home and I will have some reinforcement.

The great news is I get to repeat this day for 3 more Wednesdays this month...

Its' days like today that I'm glad I have a blog.  Blog therapy, we'll call it.  It's not anything terrible.  I LOVE my kids 99.999999% of the time!  They are good kids, really good kids.  I am lucky... and I know it.  They are happy and healthy (knock on wood) almost all the time... and I seriously wouldn't change anything, even if I could.  Because, if I took away the trying days, I wouldn't appreciate the perfect ones.  AND, bad days are only bad until you put them next to others people's bad days... and they pale in comparison.  My Life With Boys is perfect, just the way it is... 99.999999% of the time!