Magnets

Ever get one little owie somewhere, doesn't matter where...and then you CAN'T stop hitting it on every damned thing you walk by for the next 3 days? Irritating.
6 kids downstairs.
It's not even loud.
I still can't ever see having 6 kids. I want to pay lots of attention to the 4 I have. They deserve it. I found this thing at...where the hell were we? I don't know, it was some second hand store in Burnsville, it's like a fricken garage sale. It is this tin, full of pieces of paper with questions on it. It's called "family talk". Isn't that brilliant? There are questions that are too old for the kids right now but lots of them are perfect for right now. "What should you do if you see another child being hurt?" and "What would you like a friend to do if they saw you were being hurt?" and "What things are not okay for an adult to do/say to you?" all these things that open the lines of communication. It rocks. It was .60. :)
It looks beautiful out. We're going for a walk down at the bass ponds later after Cullen wakes up. Today is okay, but I am SO TIRED of always being on duty. I shouldn't whine, I know, but deal with it for a minute. Last night I decided to hit the grocery store so that I didn't have to do it today. I have 4 really good kids, but even so, can I tell you how exhausting it is to try to think of what we need while listening to 4 kids chatter endlessly about what *they* want, and things they remember that I need to buy, and WHACK, Josh smacks CJ's butt, ensueing a GET YOU BACK attack...
So we got Taco Bell for dinner. And then they played. Julia and Jordan had a sleep over in CJ and Josh's room. I clocked out mentally at 7:30 and was Yelly Mom a little bit from the sheer exhaustion of being on duty non stop. The kids finally went to bed at 10.
And i felt better.
Then Cullen came home and we were up til 12:30.I felt much better.
7:13am. The monkeys, who are in the room directly below my bedroom (this is going ot be a huge problem before too long, hahah) are HOLLERING SCREECH MONKEYS. After 10 minutes of it, I stomped on the floor loudly to warn them to zip it.
Didn't work.
Yelly mommy made a reappearance, and Josh came to lay in bed with me while I finished waking up SLOWLY.
2 hair cuts, 2 loads of laundry, one batch of pancakes and one nasty toilet scrubbing later (sitting down to pee for boys isn't such a bad idea afterwall...)....here we are! Cullen came home with a Caribou Coffee for me, and in about another 5 minutes, I'll be in fastforward. lallalalalalalallalala!
There's an albino squirrel outside. she's so pretty!
ZOOM! It's coming! It's coming! It's coming!
WHHHHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!