2. I'm done with towels: washing them, having them hang over shower rods, having them piled on the floor. Basically, having them out of the cupboard, in general.
3. Rylee and Avery can't go 3 minutes without getting into a fight.
4. Avery has a large, bleeding scratch across her stomach from someone's fingernail. (See above)
5. I'm craving fall comfort food, e.g. banana bread, pumpkin bread, zucchini bread (basically any bread, oh how I hate you South Beach diet!)
6. Grocery shopping (or any shopping, for that matter) with three small children is a logistical nightmare. From the moment we walk into a store they fight over which cart to use, who gets to sit where in the cart, who sits by who in the cart, who has to take a turn walking, who has to take a turn in the back, who gets to pick the yogurt... And all at an extremely high decibel. With crying. And screaming. And pinching. Did I mention the screaming?
7. Paying the water bill is getting old. But not as old as paying the air conditioning bill.... Did I mention my neighbor's had a bill over $700 last summer?
8. The kids are turning into TV junkies.
9. Avery cries everyday that it's not Christmas. Or Halloween. Or her birthday. Or a day to be at "the fair".
10. There are too many small children in the house at any given time. Some of them still in their pajamas at 4:23 in the afternoon. Some of them need to go somewhere else. Like school. Soon. Before CPS comes for me.
8 comments:
I'm feeling your pain, mostly because Darryl is working 78 hours a week--at night, and sleeping all day. But that just came to an end this weekend and he's on a much better rotation. My plan during this "easy" rotation: buy as much food in bulk, store up on necessities like toilet paper, cleaning products, etc. and be ready to hibernate until school comes. Remember not so long ago, we thought shopping with one child was a challenge? How I long for those days...(my reality in 5 more weeks!)
I hate grocery shopping with children. Hate it.
One word of advice for next summer...hire a sitter one day a week so you can do errands by your self...it will be the best money you ever spent.
I second the whole shopping cart fiasco. Just today I had one kid in the cart and two hanging on however they could like a bunch of monkies, fighting for the prized spot. That makes pushing the cart really hard. I got so frustrated that I pulled both monkies off and made them walk behind me without a single finger touching my cart. I am pretty sure we made a scene.
AMEN. And I only have 1 child. but, I do live in Arizona, where venturing outside at all is pretty much off the table.
Amen sister. the kids are bored. errands are impossible. and it is 100 degrees outside...
over it.
if i could just figure out a way to keep my tan...
ha ha. Yes, summer just isn't how it used to be, is it? Just like that car commercial says "summer belongs to children" So, what season do parents get?
I second you on grocery shopping- I hate it even with just one kid...and now i know I'll hate it even more when I have more kids...maybe I'll start ordering groceries online.
I feel it too. Mia has THE MOST high pitched squawk of any child I know. I am NOT kidding, either. It bugs Lucy. Today we went to the grocery store with Mia squawking the "Lloyd Christmas" squawk, and Lucy crying for her to stop at an almost, but not quite as high pitch and me crying inside too. We finally got our groceries and forgot a watermelon. I was really excited about watermelon so we went back through the line AGAIN for it. Let me just say that it was a bad idea....Ü
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