An Iowa Mom

I'd Never Miss A Party

It's happening again this year and you'd better bet your bottom dollar that I wouldn't miss it.  Last year I found some great blogs by participating and this year I'm hoping for the same.  Plus, you can win prizes!

Wanna come with me?  You can!  I don't want to go alone.

Come on!

A Modern Day Miracle

Guess what?

You'll never guess. 

Never.

It's unbelievable.

Barely comprehensible.

No way to describe it except to say it's a miracle.

A MIRACLE, I tell you.

The kids went to school today.  They did.  They really really did.

On time even.

I knew you wouldn't believe me, so I attempted to take a picture of them getting on the bus.  Only I fell on the ice, and took a picture of the sky instead.

It was almost as embarrassing as this bus experience. 

I said, ALMOST.

It's Either This ... Or That!

Sometimes giving your son a great big glass of chocolate milk for no reason ... just feels good!

 

That or it helps a mother cope with the feelings of guilt after writing on her blog that she doesn't like her children. 

Whatever works, right?

Why I Didn't Even Consider Homeschooling!

The announcement was just made. 

The kids almost couldn't believe it!!! 

After being off of school three days the week before last, several late starts and early dismissals last week, and yet to be to school this week ... they have canceled classes again for today.

It was a total shocker!

NOT!

It's starting to become quite the norm.  They are going to be making up snow days so far into June, I think they should just start contemplating year round school.

And it's renewed my faith in my decision to never even consider homeschooling my children.  Each day they are here and SHOULD be at school, the invisible "like" meter I see on each of their foreheads, is going down and down and down, further into the red.

Don't get me wrong, I love my kids.  I just don't like them very much right now.

I feel like I'm losing control of the structure in the house.  I feel like they no longer hear my yells and screams for them to settle down.  They have been running through the house like wild animals.  Hello?  I know they haven't been out of the house in days, but is that really necessary?  Can't they just go read a book for a few hours?  Take up knitting, maybe?

Earlier when I asked Molly to stop running with scissors in her hands, I heard Jake mumble to Emily that "Mom is so uptight lately!"

Hhhmmmm, I wonder why?  Maybe because I've had four kids in my face for the last 120 hours, whining and crying about how bored they are because they can't go outside and they don't want to play with the kazillion toys we have in the basement or take advantage of my "free access to video games for as long as you can play them before your eyes bug out of your head" deal. 

Now excuse me while I go find that butcher knife I'm going to need to slit my throat later.  I think I saw the kids with it in the basement yesterday.

Just Another Reason ...

why it's sooooo fabulous that BIG BROTHERS were invented:

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Well, I'll Be Double Darned

I knew there was reason I blogged.

To get the answers to all the mysterious questions in my life.  Well, they are either mysterious or I'm just too stupid to figure them out. 

But not you guys!  Nope.  I've got the smartest readers in all of Bloggyville.

The.Smartest.

That just scored me some points, didn't it? 

No?

Damn it.

Well, you all scored me some socks that I didn't even know had gone missing.  And lip gloss.

Check it out.

I didn't even know this little hidden compartment existed.

Now, if you could just crawl through my computer screen and help me brush through THIS:

 

And So She Does Share Afterall

Yup.  She sure does.  Molly has finally mastered the art of sharing ... as only Molly could.

She so generously shared her illness with Emily.

Aahh, the joys of having 4 children stuck in the house with CABIN FEVER (due to inches upon inches of fresh snow and winds that could knock a grown man to the ground), 2 of those children who happen to be sick now with a REAL FEVER (though they ARE sleeping), a dog who needs to go out, an empty carton of Pepsi, no new movies to watch because the mail didn't come today, and a growling tummy with nothing at all planned for dinner.

Good times, I tell ya, good times.

Oh wait, I think I have some wine left in that box in the fridge. 

Things are starting to look up.

Just wondering ... what do you all do when the weather and the virus bugs hit your house hard?  How do you keep from going insane?