just a day at home....

I feel like I am going in circles some days. I take the bag of chips from Camille, that she took from the broken cupboard, start again to sweep the floor....pick up all the bottle tops/sippy cup lids from the third drawer, that Camille threw randomly across the kitchen floor....and start to sweep again. Today she learned a new trick, how to climb up on a chair, then climb up to the table. Oh, joy. I restrained her in the high chair with some toast so I could run to the bathroom without the blessing of her presence, as she is a bathroom drawer emptier and toilet paper unwinder. While she was in the highchair for lunch, I decided to do some drawing and gluing with Jonathan and Charlotte Claire....and she, Princess Camille, decided she wanted to color too.

"See, I wrote my name on my hand, it says Garlotte Glaire!", said Charlotte Claire....

Jon likes the glue best.

Camille the dangerous is in her new green bed, aaahhh...I needed a break from her overwhelming cuteness. She is really huggy and affectionate. Jon and Charlotte Claire are watching, "Clifford", and I am enjoying cup #2 of coffee for the day.....Mirielle is doing homework, and six kids are coming home on the bus in 20 minutes. The next three will be home an hour after that. I think I am making spaghetti or ravioli tonight......and Mirielle is going to make a cake for Suzanne, as today is her birthday. We will sing to Mirielle, too, as yesterday was her birthday.....and I still have to get her something...

It is really snowy today. The wind is blowing and the snow is going sideways. I do not believe that I have looked out the window once today without seeing it snowing. I am thinking about getting Jon a cookie sheet full of snow to play at the table with...because it is cold and windy out there.....

Okay, yesterday evening I wrote what brings me joy....now I think I'll write what makes me sad...

1. When the kids get a toy and it is cheap and it breaks, and it breaks their little hearts. I gave Mr. Jonny, who is 4 years old, a ping-pong ball gun for a prize at the party yesterday, and you would've thought I gave him a million bucks....but it didn't work. Tearwater tea.

2. Old people in the grocery store. Period.

3. When I pass out candy to like a million kids, and the inevitable straggler comes in and: it is all gone.

4. Hearing about kids on the bus being mean to other kids....and hearing about the kid on the bus who is poor, and brought his lunch in a cracker box one day....

5. When a child has an ice cream cone, and the icecream falls off. Or their candy falls on the ground......once I bought my daughter, who was 4 years old, a box of Chiclets gum in Walmart. She opened it before I was done checking out....ping, ping, ping....gum falling on the floor.....(Of course I bought her more!!)

6. Hearing that one of my kids dropped their lunch tray at school.

7. When they wet their pants at kindergarten.

8. When I forget to study spelling with one of them, and they get a 40%....

9. When someone is sick and misses a birthday party.

10. Kids getting yelled at in Wal-Mart.

11. Parents swearing in front of their kids...(shut up, Cheryl...oh, I mean, BE QUIET)

12. Slobby kids that look like their parents don't love them...

13. When the new box of cereal is gone before Sam got a bowl of it.

14. When the bubble bath gets dumped down the drain....

15. Divorce.

16. Abortion.

17. People fighting.

18. People who are lost in hopelessness and frustration.....

19. People who turn their backs on God.....

21. Thinking about and remembering my late parents....

Well, I have some thinking to do: I have way more sad things than joyful!

These things are not in order of saddest to least sad, or the other way around, as I think #19 is probably the saddest....