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Happy Mother's Day!

Nothing can make this Mother's Day any more special than the cold I have, in addition to the tooth ache!  I did sleep in until about 8:30 which was nice.  Today is probably going to be just like any of weekend day in my house.  Filled with house cleaning and laundry.  I might get to see a few friends later on, which will be the highlight of the day before I head back to bed and starting the week off again.  This was the shortest weekend ever!


It was a fun weekend though.  Yesterday we got to meet some new people that will be part of the Pee Wee football staff this year!  That was awesome, not to mention we are all on the same page which will make for a successful season!


We went out and had a few beers with a couple friends, that is always fun especially when the one person who promised they would be there, did not show up!  I love it when I count one someone and they let me down.  


I was hoping for some breakfast today, but I would just be happy to see that someone took care of the dishes and a few chores.  I don't ask for much!


HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MY MOMMY FRIENDS!

Bad parenting?

We were at a friends birthday party and it was of course mostly all adults.  There were kids there, but they all stayed inside the house while the adults played cards and drank, in the garage.  My kids were not there, they had their own things going on.  My kids are a little bit older and so sometimes they will hang out with us.  I over heard a parent asking their kid to go inside with the others because the garage scene was not appropriate for them.  To each is own, but it really got me thinking... Have Danny and I been bad parents all along?  We have always taken our kids places with us.  We rarely ever got babysitters, so the kids have seen their fair share of BBQ's and house parties.  Is this why I am having such a difficult time with the middle one?  Have I sent them the wrong message about how to grow up and the things you should say no to?  I figured that by bringing the kids with us was better than leaving them with a sitter and this was good parenting.  I am definitely second guessing that now.  It is obviously too late to go back and change anything and now i just have to deal with the issues that come with parenting an adult, teen and tween!  THIS folks is why I drink wine!

Sometimes moms make things better

Being home and sick is a lonely combo.  You just lay there in bed feeling sorry for yourself, with nothing to do but watch TV.  With daytime TV as horrible as it is, all you really have to do is lay there and feel sorry for yourself.  

Remember when you were little and your mom would take care of you and make it all better. Granted we had the good cartoons back then, but at least mom was there with the soup and crackers to help in the speedy recovery.  

My mom is/was like that.  I knew that every time I did not feel good, all I had to do was mention it to my mom and she was on her way with soup, ginger ale or whatever it was that would make me feel better.  Yesterday was an odd day.  She sent me a text about something unrelated and I was able to throw in there that I was home sick.  Not a word was said about my being home sick or asking how I was feeling.  My text went ignored for a good several hours until she needed to know something else, unrelated to me being sick. 

I guess I have finally outgrown that stage where my mommy comes to the rescue when I am home and sick in bed.  I did not think we were ever too old for that, but I guess I was wrong.  My kids did not even come and check in on me.  

Stuck in bed, damn chest cold!

I don't think I have ever stayed in bed ALL day!  Let me tell you, it is BORING!  Day time TV sucks, I am forced to watch commercials and you can only take so many naps.  I am chugging the water and vitamin C.  I need to get back to work, I can't handle laying in bed.  Thank God for the all day marathon of Real Housewives of Atlanta.  

No rest for the wicked!

I literally spend 12 hours a day, away from home and just like everyone else the last thing I want to do when I get home is clean.  Unfortunately, if I don't do it, it won't get done.  The kids will pick and choose what chores they want to do and then will do them only when they want and when they do decide to do them they are done half ass.  The number one chore that NO ONE wants to do is the dishes.  Everyone has boldly admitted that the dishes suck and no one wants to do them.  I have always done the dishes and that is because I really don't like the way other people do the dishes.  They just never seem to be as clean as they would be if I had done them.  The darling husband has nagged me about this for YEARS.  I finally give in and end up doing them  myself anyways.  I understand that "you" may not have used that bowl, plate or glass in the sink, but this is a house and we all live here and therefore we all need to do chores in order to keep the house running smoothly. The husband just yells at everyone and barks orders because there are socks in the way of him sitting down to play video games.


My kids think I am a raging bitch and well I probably am.  Maybe if more people helped me out without bitching and complaining I would be nicer.  Maybe if people did chores and didn't have something they wanted in return, I would be nicer.  Maybe if I came home to a somewhat clean house and did not have to pick up after everyone else, I might be nicer.


I try to spin it and tell people that my house is lived in and well it is just plain messy.  If there were more hours in a day I might be able to keep up on it.


As I sit here and type this, we have NO idea what we are doing for dinner, but no one seems to care too much so I am  not going to worry about it either.  

Sunday Funday

Sunday's are typically fun for us.  If time permits, we will join a few friends at The Riverside for some breakfast and a few drinks.  This typically sets the stage for our softball game.  Well Sunday May 6, was more fun for some than others.  Danny decided his drink of choice at breakfast was going to be a screw driver.  Naturally he did not have too many  because he was driving.  He did however, continue the party of ONE when we got home.  I was seriously tired and just wanted to nap but of course had mounds of laundry to be done and kids that needed to be taxi'd around town.  Danny was drinking alone!  We met up with a few of our team mates and Danny was having a grand ol' time.  I guess Vodka make shim the life of the party.  Well party over once we got to the game.  Danny is up to bat, hits the ball, a decent grounder, runs to first.  As we all yell "stop, stop, stop" telling him to stop at first, he disregards our requests and keeps running.  As he is running to second, he sees that the other team is about to make a  play at second and get him out.  He turns and runs back to first and soon realizes that they are about to get him out at first so what does he do?  The ONE thing he has said time and time again that he will never do again!  HE SLID back into first.  He was out of course but it was one hell of an effort and he has the cuts and scrapes to prove it.