Boys with be boys…

Today, I definitely need to vent. It was a rough day with all the kids, and I have a feeling Thursday is going to be worse as I will have my cousins oldest, so add an 8 year old to all of the others I have. Just when I think I’m finally getting into the swing of things and somewhat of a routine, throw in attitudes, and fighting…and…wow today was terrible. They were fighting over who was who..they were watching Batman and Mason wanted to be batman and so did Hagen, so they got into an all out drag down fist fight. As much as I would love to say I was proud to see Mason hold his own(Hagen left with a pretty good shiner), it’s wrong and I have never once taught Mason or even gave him the idea that violence was the answer. It’s frustrating. In the past, I have had problems with my cousins kids just resort to kicking, punching, biting, whatever when they get mad. I didn’t see who actually started this one, so I sat them all down(it happened again later when my brother was here Hagen started throwing things and went after my brother)…and I just told them all, if they have a problem they need to come to me or let out their frustrations with words but do not hit, slap, spit…anything physical. Needless to say 6 could not come soon enough.
Anyways, tomorrow is going to be a deep cleaning day. Even though it’s been just over a week since the last time, I figure if I do it once every week and a half to two weeks it will be much easier to keep up with. I hope.
K has been so sick the past few days. It hit him Sunday and he spent Sunday and yesterday in bed…which is so not like him. In the over 2 years I have known him this is only the third time he has ever done that. To make it even worse he had a horrible toothache and I finally drug him to the dentist yesterday to get it taken care of. He went back to work today, but he still isn’t up to par.
Well I’m going to cut this short and sweet so I can go switch out the laundry before he gets home from work, I just needed to vent.