Saturday

Well, let’s see… Shabree is grounded to her room, said she’d rather be there than clean.  I am SO tired of her attitude towards cleaning… "I don’t want to clean"  "I don’t like cleaning"
I tell her, Shabree, do ANY of us like to clean?  She tells me no.  I ask her why do we do it then?  She tells me I don’t know.  I tell her it’s because we don’t like living in a dirty environment, we want things to be clean.  But still she complains, and so I finally just stuck her in her room, told her to enjoy her day, and I can hear her up there now crying for me, which tears me up… that’s the hardest part, ignoring her.  But if I let her out, then next time it’ll just be the same thing… I don’t wanna clean.  What’s funny is that if we’re out, and she makes a mess, she cleans it up likkity split.  When we were at the dr’s office, as soon as she realized we were leaving, she had all the toys she had gotten out put back, all I had to do was shove the box back under the table with my foot.  I won’t let her leave an area without cleaning up her mess first, so her attitude towards the house just seems weird.  Maybe it’s because in the past, I HAVE put her in her room, then half an hour later let her out when she said she’d clean.  Today is the first day I’ve REALLY grounded her to her room for most of the day.  I think she probably slept, like I did… she told Becca she was laying on her bed, not sleeping, but she was so quiet, I’ll bet she was.  She’s making quite a racket right now.

Anyway, the house is much cleaner than it was, though not perfect, but not a total embarrassment right now, except for this couch.  I can only do so much, and I can only ask the kids to do so much.  I had to lie down because I was having contractions again… probably from dragging Shabree upstairs, but then *I* fell asleep.  I got enough sleep last night, but then, I guess right now I DO just need it.  I keep worrying that Jerry is going to have a fit, though last time he mentioned it, I said, it’s only going to be another month, that’s all.  Well, I don’t know that THAT is completely true, but at least I won’t be carrying around 30 extra pounds of baby, blood, fat, etc… that alone should help my energy levels, lol… plus I won’t be making a baby! 

It’s dinner time.  Syd just asked me if I was ready for dinner.  I called Jerry, and he’ll be done at 7:30, so we’ll eat then.  In the meantime, Bec and Syd will have a snack, Shabree will have dinner, and will not get dinner with the rest of us. 

Guess I’ll get to getting her a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and some water she can have in her room… she won’t be eating with us.  Normally I don’t allow food and drink out of the kitchen, but when they’re grounded, they don’t get to come out of their rooms… she’ll be lucky if we end up going out to eat, but she’s not eating with us.

Okay, posting now.