Found Artwork

Whenever Whitney watches a movie on the computer she ends up leaving a pile of drawings on the table next to the computer. These are the two I found yesterday, they tell a story if you look at them in order.

Click on picture to enlarge.

The dog laughing on the right especially cracked me up.

**Thoughts??**

Comment Window Tidbit: We froze our nards off at another soccer game tonight...what is up with this weather?!

Baffling to Me

Last Saturday while Whitney was at Adam and Amy's house for a sleepover with the cousins I decided to take advantage of feeling better by cleaning under the futon. This is a picture of all the stuff shoved under there (of course it was all Whitney's stuff!)! Even though I know she needs to learn how to clean and organize for herself, this is one of those jobs that goes better if she's not here to scrutinize my decisions, because the majority of this stuff went into the recycling bin. I decided that our main issue is that she is always creating things, but then can't bear to let them go...luckily I CAN bear to let them go.

I also cleaned out the floor of the closet, which held far more stuff than the small square footage should be able to hold. When she got home that night I informed her that she will be the one cleaning under the bed and the hall closet very soon...heaven help me!

**How often do you do clean outs like this?
Do you find yourself muttering in disbelief?**

Comment Window Tidbit: The kids stayed home sick again today, but I only missed my first class of the day in order to make sure they were well enough for me to leave. They are such easygoing kids and have basically slept and watched movies for two days.

Wordless Wednesday

Comment Window Tidbit: I went to my new doctor (walking distance from my house) yesterday and am restocked on Zoloft and Relpax...health insurance is a good thing.

I Need Another Day

Since our family's Christmas is tomorrow at 3:00, I really should be more prepared than I currently am. I've been plugging along this month and haven't felt too panicked about things, but I had planned to get way more done today than actually got done (again!), so now I'll be finishing up my wrapping (not rapping...yo, yo, yo) and dessert making tomorrow instead of tidying up and relaxing the way I'd prefer to be doing. If only I could get some of Natasha's extreme plan-aheadedness (new word) then maybe I'd actually get to enjoy things more.


Today was spent...
--Doing laundry (bedding, which I hate doing because I have to have an unmade bed for all that time).
--Spent way too much time trying to get our cd burner to work, then finally got it working only to find that the photo cd is crashing (this is current) the recipient's computer (@#!#, I'm so sorry Cathy).
--Wrapped all of the kids' friends' gifts.
--Ran to Wal-Mart for some groceries and final Christmas items.
--Picked up Whitney from Robyn's house.
--Ran to post office to drop remaining Christmas Cards before 5:30 pick-up.
--Put gas in the car.
--Ran into Costco (which was crazy) for only 3 items.
--Stopped at Sonic for a bag of Pebble Ice (thank you gift-card givers!)
--Took kids to deliver all their friend gifts.
--Wrapped Michelle, Eva, and Max's gifts. I really wish I had better wrapping skills, I'm such a tape spazz.
--Ran to Best Buy to get new cds to hopefully combat cd burning woes I'm currently experiencing.
--Folded laundry.
--Finally got the kids to bed at 9:45pm! (I hate late bedtimes for them!)

I have been in good form and even felt a little bit excited today while walking through Wal-Mart (unprecedented), but the messes of the day are wearing on me so I was a little snippy at bedtime. If only I could combat that end of the day snippiness!


The really good news is that Landon will finally be cleaning up his fort tomorrow (it has been up for a month!) which will make the kids' room feel clean and roomy again and will most likely restore some sort of peace to my mind.

**Are you ready for Christmas?
Do computer woes make you mental?
Do the mess of bags and wrapping supplies wear on you?**

Comment Window Tidbit: I still haven't found that present of Whitney's!