Winter Blues

I don't know if it is because we are inside more than not but the kids are acting very spoiled. It has been very frustrating for them to play with toys and then just leave them. When I ask them to pick them up I get a no. This is starting to wear on my patience - big time. Today at lunch Tommy decided to play Cookie Monster with his Cheez Its and had them all over the floor. That boy is going to start learning how to stand in time out - the problem is - I have to stand there to make sure he doesn't move delaying the clean up process which frustrates me further. I'm starting to cut back their Wii time because some days it just makes them mean and nasty if they don't get their way. How many more days until Spring??

Happy New Year!

I survived the holidays. Christmas Eve was a little rough as I started to assemble Legos at 9:30 when we thought everyone was down for the night but wait - its John - mister bladder of steel - needing to go one more time as Mom was in the process of dumping Legos everywhere to assemble. His set took me over an hour - maybe an hour and a half and when I was finished I knew it wasn't right I had to move onto the next set for James. James set was a little easier and I had Matt assemble a few parts as it was 3 different assemblies. It was finished at midnight. The kids slept in pretty good. It was 6:15 until Patrick came down and then we got everyone up. Once everyone used the bathroom and the cameras were ready the big boys took off for the presents and well Patrick - took off for the refridgerator for his OJ and milk. Tommy was up when Patrick got up but soon fell back to sleep in our bed but once we woke him up again - he enjoyed his toys.

New Years was fun even though most of the kids had a head cold. We celebrated at noon with party hats, poppers and noise makers. In the evening John stayed up until 10:30. I took a great 2 hour nap andwoke up in time to see the ball drop.

John spent all of his Christmas gift card money except for one store. I'm happy for him because he got a Wii game that he is really enjoying and now I don't have to feel bad when we go to the store and the boys get stuff and he doesn't. The other boys have yet to spend much or any of their money. The weather and theirs and my colds have kept us hibernated. We are all feeling better so I am hoping we can get out tomorrow. I know they will make things challenging just getting coats and boots on but hopefully once we are out they will have fun.