Living the Dream...

So today I am driving R to preschool and he was lamenting (translated whining) about me not picking him up and how Aunt A picks him up from preschool. He asked me why I had to work and I told him that I had to pay the bills and that Mommy and Daddy like to make sure he has things he likes like TV and warm water. He proceeded to tell me that TV should be free and so should hot water and food. Cause in a warped mind of a 4 almost 5 year old the only thing that is important is playing with Mommy and Daddy. When I told him that without mommy and daddy going to work we wouldn't be able to buy new games for the Wii and new Legos and new Pokemon, he then proclaimed that I must go to work and we will just play when you get home like normal.

Ahh to be young and innocent! I love to hear his priorities!

Welcome to not me Monday. This blog carnival was created by MckMama! You can head over to her blog to see what she and everyone else have not been doing!

Let me start with this little doosey! I certainly did not after walking into my oldest room and see chalk all over the walls, first didn't not tell him we don't write on the walls, but if you are going to please only use chalk, I also didn't add chalk board paint to my list for Lowes so that they can have a place to actually use said chalk instead of their little easel. I would never condone writing on our walls. That is absolutely out of the question.

I did not take our oldest to the grocery store and allow him to pick out 2 boxes of donuts for breakfast this week so I could be lazy and sleep and extra five minutes. I would never allow my healthy kids to have donuts for breakfast. I also did not make my family a very yummy breakfast of sausage gravy and biscuits only to not eat it and drive through McDonalds and get a yummy egg mcmuffin instead. I always eat what I make my kids eat.

I also did not allow my youngest child to have small bites of chips yesterday while I was watching football, who gives one year olds greasy potato chips just so she doesn't have to get up and make a healthy snack and possibly miss and important score in her football game. I would never do that.

I also did not put both my kids to bed early so I could watch Sunday night Football with out interruptions and so I could yell and scream at my favorite team with out worrying I would damage the growing brains of my little ones.

I'm sure I didn't do many more things this week but for now that is all I can think of! Enjoy!

Another Weekend Over!

Well another weekend is over and once again I got nothing I wanted to do done. Why is it I make grand plans to get so much stuff done on the weekends, and when I comes down to it, I play with the boys, and do little else? Is it the guilt of having to work during the week and them going to bed shortly after I get home? Is it my desire to just hang out and be lazy, or is it my inner self wanting to be doing anything except sorting through toys, clothes and just junk that needs to be sorted before Christmas and Birthdays bring more toys, clothes and junk. I just don't know.

What I do know is that right now, the boys have no room for more toys, I need to find a way to organize what they have and get rid of what they don't play with. My poor house is busting at the seams, and sadly it is my fault. I buy so much for the boys and generally they play with the same few toys over and over again. I just love to see them have fun and new toys seems to do the trick. It seems like we can't leave Target, Walmart or even the grocery store without some sort of new and exciting play thing. So my goal on the weekends is always to sort and dispose of.

Well this morning I had a wonderful idea. R is going out of town this weekend so little R and I are going to go through his toys on Sunday and do a major purge. I am going to try to explain to him about how some kids aren't as lucky as he is and then he and I are going to take all the old toys that are still in good shape to the local women's shelter so the little boys and girls can have gifts to. I am hoping this will work, he is really starting to understand this point so I am praying by next Monday we will be able to walk through his bedroom and maybe just maybe open his closet door. A mom can dream right...Stay Tuned!

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So I most certainly did not claim to have an appointment outside of the office and take an early and long lunch only to hang out at the park with some friends of mine from high school and let all the kiddies play. When I am at work, I work and never play hookie!

I also did not allow such kids to play without jackets on while the winds were gusting to like 40 mph and it was only 60 outside, I would never do that I am a responsible parent and wouldn't ever let her kids play when it was that chilly!

I also did not feed little J hot dogs and pickles for dinner 3 nights in a row because not only are the easy but he loves them, I always feed my kids healthy meals and never junk food, like the popsicle R had for breakfast this morning Nope not Me!

I also did not pretend to not hear my little J yelling for me from his bed in hopes his dad would get up and I could maybe sleep in, I was also not at all disappointed when J trotted into our room after daddy got him up. I would never not want to get up and play with my kids!

Hope you enjoyed my Not Me Monday! Stay Tuned Next Week for more not me confessions!

Just not feeling it today!

Do you ever have a day where you just don't feel it? What is the IT? I am having one of those days today. I don't know, I am just in a funk I guess. I don't want to work, I don't really want to be at home either... It is always very puzzling to me when I have days like this, I'm not tired or stressed or have any other ailment ailing me, I just want to do nothing. Tonight I am going to go home and try and get some stuff done around there. I am in desperate need of a house cleaning and laundry is as usual piling up! So maybe just maybe by the time I leave the office today the funk cloud will lift and I will have some not energy but urge to do something, otherwise the house will be one day more dirty, the kids will have more laundry and I can only hope for a better day tomorrow!

Not Me Monday, one of my favorite things about Mondays! It was started by a wonderful mother and and inspiring womand MckMama! Enjoy.

It was not me who in tired end of her wits mode, that just put her one year old in his bed when it was neither bed time nor nap time just to try and get the house picked up, no I would never do that, I am a responsible parent and our house never gets dirty.

It was also not me who felt like she did so much yesterday yet the house still needs to be cleaned and our sheets washed, but the clothes are clean so I am feeling accomplised!

It was also not my youngest who stayed up till 1130 on Saturday night because we were at a friends house and I wasn't ready to go yet so he simply played with their cat all night long after their children went to bed, I would never be that irresponsible and not stick to bed times!

It was also not me who cried a little when her oldest scored a touchdown at football on Saturday and realized that he isn't so little anymore. I would never let time pass so quickly! It was also not me who at said football game allowed her one year old to eat almost a full box of popcorn right before lunch. Nope Not Me!

It was most certainly not me who arranged my kids nap schedule so I could make the most of the Colts game yesterday, I would never move their schedule their naps so I could actually watch something other than Noggin!

It was also not me who gave my kids KFC for dinner last night instead of the healthy meal I had planned for, because I watch said Colts game and didn't fix dinner, I would never be that irresponsible.

It is not me who is not so patiently waiting for her husband to get back in town, not so much because I miss him terrible (which I do by the way) but because I would love to have just 20 minutes by myself. I mean I would never not want to spend time with my children.

It was also not me who allowed my son R to have doritos and nacho cheese for 2 snacks yesterday and also 2 more on Saturday, I would never be that lazy to fix them a healthy snack!