5/6/08

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I am absolutely, positively wiped out, exhausted, and at the end of my nerves.  I’m sure every nerve on my body has been gotten on by my children.
I took them to McDonalds.
I must say… there are days when I wonder WHY I take them ANYWHERE to eat and play.  I think, Oh, I’ll get some scrapbooking done, but truthfully, I never get much done.  Bec wants to scrapbook, Syd wants to scrapbook (today we started making cards), Shabree wants to be with us, and then because of all of that, Sammi too hangs out with us.  The problem ISN’T that though.  The problem is the arguments, and the whining (especially from Shabree, who I finally just yelled at, because every time she said ANYTHING, it was at the top of her lungs… and I have to admit, I yelled "Would you PLEASE STOP YELLING?")  If Shabree wanted to take my rolling scrap bag, then SYDNI was there wanting to take it.  If Sydni wanted to do something, then SHABREE wanted to do it.  And of course, there was an argument EVERY time about who would get to do it.  God help me.  Then, there’s just the NOISE of McDonalds… all the screaming and yelling kids, the screeching, the door that "whistles" when anyone goes out it (it’s an alert so if a child leaves, you’re aware.  But you get so used to everyone going out that door that it becomes so much annoying background noise, and eventually, you just do your best to tune it out, so it’s NOT a god warning system.  Better than nothing though, I suppose)  And then there’s the tv… which of course, the kids are mesmerized by… so even though they came to do something, they don’t.  WHY BOTHER?  Becca is especially bad with this.  Oh, and then there’s them being demanding… I want this, I want that.  And the bossiness, and the rudeness towards each other, and I honestly begin to not like my children very much.  They don’t ACT like good people when they’re at McDonalds.  They act like selfish little brats.  Which makes me very sad to say, because of course, we DO NOT teach them to act like that.  I’m ALWAYS correcting them, and that wears on my nerves as well… I get to where I hate the sound of my own voice!  I’m thinking, Why can’t you guys just BEHAVE? 
So yea, I’m tired.  I’m sure it doesn’t HELP that I’m pregnant, but I can definitely say that even when I wasn’t, that this was a typical trip to McDonald’s.  Though they DID used to play, all of them.  I don’t mind Becca not playing, if she has something else to do… and I can overlook the tv.  But Sydni needs so MUCH of my help with her stuff, that it just defeats the purpose of going there so *I* can scrapbook.  I have to say on a positive not though, that I was able to feed all 5 of us for the low price of 11.50.    20 piece nuggets, somehow Becca thinks she needs TWO double cheeseburgers (I’m after her for the calories on that one!), value soda, and a large fries… must say,  you get a LOT more fries for 2.00 at McDonalds than you do at Burger King.  The 3 youngest and I shared the nuggets (Bec begged one off Syd… shouldn’t have let her do that w/ 2 double cheeseburgers.  I ended up eating a couple of bites though.)  I didn’t think Sammi would eat, but she was pretty cute, with a nugget in each hand, taking a bite off of one, then off of the other, lol, and dipping them in her ketchup.  And of course, she had some fries, and drank a TON of soda for a little girl… good thing it’s diet….but she PROBABLY doesn’t need the caffeine.  Oh well.  Bad mommy… but we don’t do this every day.  We spent about 3 hours there, and I got ONE layout done.
So I’m pretty fried myself at this point.  We WERE going to get sundae’s, but then as we were going to get them, someone mentioned the price of the ice cream at Rite Aid (it’s on sale for 1.99 this week) and I told them, hey, we could get a whole TUB for the same price as 2 sundaes, so we went to Rite Aid and ended up with four tubs of ice cream, and a box of cones.  Shabree pulled the bratty attitude on me again, whining how she didn’t WANT that ice cream.  Grrr.  I was this close to sending her to her room… though on the way home, Bec reminded me that Breezy and Syd had karate tonight, so we went home, had them get their uniforms, then they had an ice cream cone, and now they’re gone.  I put Sammi down for a nap (YEA!) and Bec’s on the kid’s computer (this house is CRAZY with the amount of computers in it, but only so many can get on the net because of the wiring and the wireless cards).   I should have taken a nap too, now I’m stuck, so I’m going to have to keep a tight leash on my emotions so I’m not yelling at everyone and everything.   Otherwise, it’ll be 3 a.m. before I get to sleep.  I’m getting brain dead, because I wrote 3 a.m. before I get a nap, then realized what I wrote and changed it. 

Time to sign off.  I think I am going to replenish my scrap bag, or try to.  I am hoping to get some more scrapping done in May.  I did 51 pages in April, which is a FANTASTIC amount, and I’ve done almost 100 pages this year, which is also just great.  But my room is an utter mess, as usual, and I’d really like to be able to find some things, and get to things, and have a LITTLE order in here.  It’d be nice to have it not so crazy.  I’m sure I could get a LOT more done if I could find things.  I already get plenty done… I imagine I could double it if I was more organized.  I envy the organized moms so much.  My chaos is something I just sort of live with.  At least I can say, though, that I’m NOT buying anything new these days to ADD to the chaos.  I’m trying to use up what I have first.  At least make a good dent in it.  LOL… that can be a trick.  But so far I’ve done really well at scrapping with what’s in here.  I bought a few pages of paper last month, and that was about it.  So I CAN be proud of that… I AM proud of that.  I’m in a Yahoo group "Scrap from your stash" and that is exactly what I’m doing.  I might have a small store in here…but I’m using it.  🙂

Enough rambling… I need a mental break already.

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