Can't get those fingers to work...

You know I used to be really good at this blogging thing.. And I can't help but wonder what has happened to me? Everytime I look around I see so many things that need to be finished, the desk is piled high with work to do, the floors are a constant battle between dirty and clean, the laundry is always haunting me as it reproduces it's piles and piles, not to mention the dishes which climb the counter space in the kitchen.. When I think of it all I just can't find anything nice to blog about, tack on the fact that it's nearly 3pm and I am still in my pj's (and not a comfortable calm pj day, a hectic no time for a shower day!). There are just not enough hours to do everything that keeps piling up. I get one thing done and then something else has fallen by the wayside. I just cannot win.

Atleast the girls are cooperative today, they are happily playing and even picked up their room (perhaps they are begining to see that mommy is on the verge of a meltdown!) I am going to have them help me mop the floors (if I can ever get the counter tops cleaned off), then hopefully they will be productive participants in the window washing category...

I can't help but be reminded of something that Mrs. Dugger said, "Many hands make light work." I do not know how any house can be anything but a disaster from that many kids, even if you don't include the older ones, heck there must be 6 young ones and they cannot possibly be that helpful... or maybe they are, perhaps mine need some better training.

Well I am off, for Thanksgiving dinner is but hours away and this house has months worth of cleaning.. :) Here's to getting done what people can see, and hiding the rest!

Not Much Happening

I'm behind on the posting already, that is so typical of me. I just don't have anything spectacular to blog about. I am mostly playing catch up with everything and it seems so boring to blog about. Maybe something interesting will come up later today.. :)

A Look at Next Semester

It's really challenging to blog every day, especially when you are doing pretty much the same thing every time.

Last night I registered for my next semester classes, I will go Monday/Wednesday 10:30-2:40 and Tuesday night from 6-8:45, seems like a pretty good schedule. I have a one hour break on Mon/Wed so I should be able to get some homework done in that time, and I will be done in time to pick the girls up from school. So no more paying $12.75 a week for Alexa.. yay! And since I am going to change the girls from gymnastics to ballet it should work out just fine.

Now if I can only get a passing grade on my this quarter classes.. which seems to be the hard part. I am carrying a 'D' in two of my classes, and we have 4 weeks left, so I am in need of some serious miracles.

The vs. Duh

Apparently while learning the alphabet sounds at school someone said that the letter 'd' says 'duh' which I assume some kid has an older sibling who says, "Duh!" which is not a word that Julius or I have ever used. And although the 'd' does say 'duh', Alexa has learned to exaggerate the sound into "Duh!"... which she then started confusing with the word "the"... This is driving me bonkers, because it is such a minimal sound change between the two that I don't think Alexa realizes the difference. She always says, "The letter 'd' says duh mom, that is just like the." Which it is not just like 'the'... Hopefully this will not cause future problems, and she still wonders why some kids say, "The!" As in this conversation she told me about:
Child 1: "Your sitting behind Aaron."
Child 2: "I already know that, the!"

The Invitation..

Well it's happened, and Kindergarten has only just begun. My little Alexa, quiet as she is, has made a handful of friends in K-garten. She tells me about them constantly, everything from conversations they've had, to what they were wearing, to what kind of backpack they have. Thanks to her teachers name chart she is also able to tell me what letter their names start with.

So yesterday while waiting for the teacher to come collect her chirping little chickens I was singled out by a mom for a 'conversation'. Now it's really early for me to get up and drop her off, so I'm not exactly a chattering social butterfly, infact I wish she had an older friend that could walk her to school (save me the trip).

But after a brief conversation assuring this mom that indeed my childs name was, Alexa, she turned to the real reason for the forced early morning banter, her daughter is having a birthday party and wants to invite Alexa (although she did not know her name was Alexa.. just the 'girl with the short brown hair').

So yes my social butterfly is going to her first party! To which poor Adrianne is devistated that I said she cannot come (many tears were shed and I'm sure will continue to be shed until the tables are turned). The party is at JJJump and I don't know how Alexa will do, but hopefully she will atleast attempt to play with the other guests.

Which leads me to my next thought: Should I stay at the party with her? Normally I would, but we've never been in a situation quite like this as our parties are usually people whom I know the mothers. Additionally the mom said that the party girl does not really need a gift and will just be happy if Alexa is able to come, I don't think I can honstly show up without a gift... atleast a gift card or something?! I don't want to be the cheap mom, perhaps she was just trying to be polite. I don't know what to get a 6 year old, I don't know what she already has.. I feel I am shooting in the dark. I don't even know how much I am supposed to spend.. ahh, I am so stressed over something so simple!

Thanksgiving is coming!

What a wild weekend I have had, one of the best since I started this semester of school. I did not crack a book the whole time (although I will need to get on it once I finish this post!) On Friday night I went to the MOMS night out where we played a variety of games and just laughed at any and everything! It was a really nice time, good to get away :) Saturday I took the girls to the Fancy Nancy reading at Borders, they gave out hot chocolate and cookies to the kids, along with coloring pages, FN binoculars, and FN wrapping paper, and ofcourse they read a FN book. Once it was over the kids were dying to buy something, I've decided it is profitable for Borders to have such events as nearly every child walked out with atleast one book. Mine picked sticker books, which I felt were over priced but they wanted them and I am such a push over.

Once I brought them home it was Julius' turn to watch them while I went to the mall with my cousin for some early Christmas browsing (yes early, I am a Christmas Eve shopper!). I bought some Bed Bath and Beyond wallflowers which I LOVE! They smell so good and the scent really spreads unlike the glade/airwick ones. I also bought some new shirts for myself... so not much holiday shopping went on, but sometimes I need to buy myself things too!

After the mall we had a small party for the Pacquiao fight, that was a great time too! Got to hang out with some people that we have not seen in a while and all the kids were good and the fight was entertaining and nail bitting all at the same time, the food was awesome and it was a nice relaxing time. On Sunday the girls went up to Great Grandmas and I got to take a much needed nap :) Then we ordered pizza and had dinner with the Aunts.

I do have some photos from Friday, the girls were looking for something to do so I went online and found this simple Thanksgiving craft made with TP tubes (which I have been trying to save for recycling instead of throwing them in the trash), this is what they made:


(P.S. See below for another post, I did two today and just backdated it.)