Just a Little Something

No, I haven't been blogging. This is my stressed mom blog and it's difficult to blog in a stressed mom blog when you're just not stressed.

My biggest stress right now is those adorable puppies. They are coming up on the puppy versions of teenagers. That means that any personality traits that aren't exactly desirable start popping up. My beautiful Butterfly, we now know, is dominant-aggressive. She wants to pick fights with all the other dogs. The Mr. is talking about getting rid of her but I've watched enough "Dog Whisperer" to know that it's controllable. I've been working with her every day. Unfortunately there are days when I just have too many other things to do so I have to separate them. TBone goes outside on his run, and the other two take turns on who gets to be with me and who gets to be outside on the other run or stuck in the bathroom. I don't complain about any of it because I knew it would be hard work to have puppies years and years before I finally decided to get one. It's just work.

The house situation feels like it's coming to a close but I can't mention anything about it until it's finalized because quite frankly I'm waiting for the landlords to find another way to royally screw us over (again). I just hope we make the final decisions soon because it drives me nuts to not be allowed to talk about it with anyone.

I have stopped playing any Facebook applications alltogether. This is amusing considering all the time I spent allowing apps to go to my email LOL. Oh well. I just don't have any time. If this summer is anything like LAST summer, however, I am sure I'll have time to sneak onto one every once and a while. A part of me just thinks I've outgrown them. There are better things I could be doing with my life then spending three hours staring at my computer. I miss them, however.

Unfortunately I don't think this summer will be like last summer at all. For one thing, we will either be moving or we will be working on transforming this little trailer into something we'd be proud to own. We have floors to redo, some plumbing work we want to get done, and we're talking about installing a ceiling fan in the bedroom (well, The Mr is talking about it). We have two dead trees to get rid of and several live trees that we just can't wait to cut down. We even have a playset we want to put up for the little kids who live here and the little kids who visit.

Another reason this summer might not be like last years is LAST year my kids WANTED to help me get stuff done. This year they do NOT. They have not done one single one of their normal chores for months (without being yelled at or the threat of something taken away). So that means I have to do it all myself. My husband says let it all be until the kids help. Then our house looks AWFUL. It sucks. I don't know why all of a sudden they don't care if they live in a pigsty. But I could Dr. Phil them and take everything away until they are just sitting in a chair staring at a wall and they still won't do anything. We've offered to pay them an obscene amount of money if they'll do their chores. Still nothing. We've bought our oldest daughter a (cheap used) laptop, and all she has to do is do the same chores she's been expected to do for the past three years. It's still sitting in the closet. She doesn't want it bad enough to actually pick up two floors (three if you count her bedroom) and do the dishes twice a week. The boys haven't been allowed to touch their DS's in three weeks cuz they don't want to pick up trash out of their bedroom that they put there. It's infuriating! Summer's coming! Am I really expected to let them go to their friends' houses and do whatever they want during the day while I clean up after them like they're four? Strike that - TWO - I make my 4 year-old help me clean during the day.

I am at a loss as to what to do. It will just get harder because I'm pet-sitting my sisters animals for a few weeks and they will want to touch/pet/play with them...but guess who will be doing all the feeding and poop-picking-up? And guess who barely has enough time to read ten pages let alone do anything she actually WANTS to do like garden and draw and paint and yes, occasionally play a computer game? GUESS WHO CAN'T EVEN PLAY SIMS FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS?? The slave housemaid known as mother.

Bah - I gotta go clean see ya!

It's all good here, though. Nothing really bad going on. :)