Monday Morning Musings - Warning: Animal Cruelty Photo Included

Some of you might have noticed that I have not been a very diligent blogger lately. This is what is goin' down. See, we thought we had until the end of November before we had to renew our construction loan AGAIN, but we recently found out that it is actually up for renewal on the 4th of November. So we decided to kick it into high gear and run ourselves ragged trying to finish the house by then. The lady in charge of our loan did say she would give us a few extra days if needed. I think we just might make it. We might kill ourselves in the process, but it will be very nice to have it done and to be able to move in! We had about a thousand people working on the house on Saturday and made huge progress.





My sweet little Emily was chosen to be on the student council at school. Each class in the school has 1 representative on the student council. She had to turn in an application along with a conduct form from her teacher. They chose the top 3 students from each class. Then she had to go through and interview process, after which she was chosen to represent her class. Way to go Emily!!! She was also chosen to be in the gifted class which she leaves her regular class for and goes to 3 times a week.





I am really getting irritated at my children. They think it is great fun to click my little blue tool bar along the bottom of the computer screen up on it's side. Then I try for like an hour to flip it back down and only have success 10% of the time. Addison got up on my chair and was playing around on the keyboard the other day and SHE flipped it up. If someone knows an easy way to flip it back down, please share! It makes me crazy to have it up on end.





My "sweet" little Addy who isn't even 2 yet, came to me the other day with all her clothes off and said, "Bathroom". So I took her to the bathroom and put her on the potty. (Hey, I'm a mom. That's what we call it, a POTTY) She did the most amazing thing. She pooped. On the potty. All of her own free will and choice. So I went out that very day and bought her a potty (cause who knows where the one we already have is) and she has gone on it several times since. Yes! I see and end in sight.





You wanna know why I said "sweet" little Addy? I mean she is the sweetest cutest little thing ever, but let me just tell ya. She has taken Monster Baby to a whole new level. Friday I loaded up the girls and made the long trek to Ikea. We were in the store for over 3 hours because I was getting stuff we needed for the house (drawer handles, mirrors, an oven range). Huhhhhh.....It was a pure delight to have that child in the store with me. Pure de-light. By the time we finally had everything we needed (it really is a long drive and I didn't want to have to make it again for something I forgot) I was like, "YES!". I was so ready to strap her in her car seat and go home and put her in bed, and put myself in bed too. I get up to the front register and I am about to pass out right there and what do I find? Only self checkouts open. I was ready to cry. After struggling with Monster Baby for hours in the store my arms felt like they were made out of butter (butta). Then I had to find a way to keep her next to me all while pulling huge heavy mirrors out of my cart so I could get to the 80 some odd drawer handles in the bottom of the cart. We checked out and got everything loaded in the truck and then my sweet little Aubrey decided she wanted to cry the entire way home. Yeah. Sigh. Hooooo.....that was a fun trip right there, let me tell ya.

Hee,hee. The other day I was at Target and they had these doggie shirts on sale for 25 cents. I just couldn't resist. I wanted so bad to put one on my brother's dog, Bean-O. That dog is the bane of my existence. So I put it on him and he hung his head really low. Emily said, "Mom! Take that off, he looks like he is ashamed." Ahhhh, ha ha ha ha. He really did. Next time he makes me mad, I'm pullin it back out.

The kids and I drove up to the new house the other day and we saw that we had a visitor on our scaffolding. Actually Emily saw him and pointed him out to the rest of us. I being so observant would have totally missed him if I had been by myself.