Family Fun?

We have decided to venture out! Not the best idea as it seems everyone else also decided to head out! Nevertheless, we are out and at the movies to see The ToothFairy! I am sure it will be a wonderful and exciting movie:)

Home Bound

The official snow totals for Stafford County are 25.5 inches for the BLIZZARD of 2010! Schools have been closed since Friday and are now closed through at least Tuesday. I am not hopeful about Wednesday as the forecast is calling for a few inches on Tuesday night. Poor Killi thinks it is summer vacation, Maggie is working on week 3 of no school(with no plans to ever return:) and Declan is pretty bored with us.

What to do now? I guess it is time that I start doing some school work with everyone at home. Declan could be reading ALOT more and Killi has lots of math sheets and reading she could work on. And I am sure it would not hurt Maggie any if I did some reading with her. Now if I could only get motivated.

More of the White Stuff!

School is closed again tomorrow. Marg has not been to school in 2 weeks and Declan and Killi has spent 4 hours there this week. The forecast for the next two days is snow, snow and wind, snow 16-24 inches total unless the storm stalls in which case we could get more:)

I guess I have no choice but to embrace this family time and enjoy the snow!

School Days...What Are They?

As it stands right now Maggie has not been to school in a week and a half and Declan and Killi have been out since 1pm on Friday. The snow is falling again and there is about 1/2- 1 inch so far so I am guessing there will be no school tomorrow. I am really starting to feel like I should do some school work at home with the monsters! By the time poor Killi gets back to school it is going to take FOREVER to get her back on track! I am not sure I will be able to get Marg back in the doors at school and poor Declan is bored to tears with us:)

I guess tomorrow will be filled with more baking and a family LIPS competition on XBOX:)

WOW! Another One!

It snowed here on Saturday. A decent snowfall, about 8-10 inches. Tomorrow is Tuesday and school is closed AGAIN for snow that fell on SATURDAY! Good news for the kids though, Wednesday is not looking promising for school as another 2-4 inches are predicted for tomorrow night.

I am not sure if the school system knows or not, but I have vacation plans for late June, so enough with the snow days!

I am not sure I would mind the snow if I could drive in it, but I cannot, so we sit in the house. I am not really sure where we would go if I did drive since the ground is always wet or snow-covered. Maybe a playdate for tomorrow? Maybe McDonald's? Or Carlos for kids day. Probably just more togetherness with the kids at home:)

Rolling Along...

Ben is out-of-town for a few days and while we will miss him, I am hoping for some much needed down time. With Ben gone, dinner is simpler, the house is messier and bedtime is earlier:) As you can see, there is pro's and con's with him gone:) This week however, I have some really tired, grouchy kids that need 7pm to be bed time with NO LIGHTS and NO T.V.'s! My Monsters that used to be AWESOME sleepers are now up until almost 10pm every night and then are tired and grouchy in the morning! I will use this week to "try" and get back into a routine for bedtime. Let's hope we can get it done!

Tomorrow we need to finish Declan's Native American project and Killi has some homework to get done. It would be nice if I could get some school work done myself this week!

Today They Earned Their Name!

It gets to a point when the fighting is just too much! When you just cannot hear One more time how Every other mother is better than you are. When it is like pulling teeth to get ONE positive thing to come from their mouths! And what is BEST is when this all peaks on a day that YOU are trying to be nice and do fun things! Fun things that are not CHEAP! Because really nothing is better than paying for someone(or three someones) to treat you like CRAP!

I think I do ALOT for my family and moat if the time my family does do for me. And I understand that in every relationship there are points of give and take and that is not always even, but when you are doing and doing and have so much to do for yourself that you keep putting off, it just gets annoying!

So, after a movie and dinner at Sakura, and lots of hating eachother and me, I have decided I am done being a mom today. The Monsters can fend for themselves!