Sunday *edit*

I told Jerry last night, I need a break.  He’s been working constantly (even today!) which is not his fault, but it still leaves me with the kids 24/7… welcome to the world of  stay at home mom… people who think this is easy are crazy!  Today was Syd’s turn to be in trouble.  I told her and Bec the other day to quit getting into the tortillas (they’re raw and have to be cooked)… I think of them as Jerry’s… he’s fine with them making them, however, the girls leave the package open, and they get dried out, so they just need to stay out of them.  So Sydni got a piece this morning, and once again, left the bag open.  It’s not so much that she left the bag open, but disobeyed my direct order to quit getting into them.  That is my frustration with her… my almost constant frustration with Sydni.  She seems to be doing this a lot lately… attention seeking?  I imagine so, actually.  She’s a HUGE attention hound, middle child, the whole works…  I have NO idea what it is about Sydni… but she grates on me.  She chatters on and on, usually about whatever is in her head, and it usually seems like she talks to hear herself talk rather than to tell me something.  She doesn’t want to engage in a conversation, she just wants to talk.  Last night, Jerry asked her about a wall plate from her bathroom, how it had gotten off the wall (you know, the ones for plugs and light covers and such…this one was for a plug).   Syd
told Jerry that Shabree MUST have done it.  She explained how she took out the screws, but that Shabree must have lost them.  So she lied, AND blamed Shabree.  Jerry told her how ashamed he was of her.  She was crying and came to me for comfort, and I just backed off… I told her she couldn’t come to me for comfort when she was in trouble like that.  I told her I loved her, however, what she did was really bad.  She actually said Bec or Shabree did it, but Bec said she didn’t do it, so she said Shabree must have done it.  Jerry wasn’t even upset about the cover really… he was about the lying though.  Personally, I’d seen it, and I didn’t care… they’re cheap and easy to replace.  I never even mentioned it to her.  I just sighed when I saw it… this house has been SO trashed by these kids.  I hope they take better care of the new house, but I won’t hold my breath.  The last thing is, when I came downstairs yesterday morning… Sydni was very guiltily taking a box of cereal back from the living room into the kitchen.  I have been cracking down on the rule about no food outside of the kitchen, because it is a rule that is constantly igonred, and the carpets are ruined.  The new house has beige carpets, this house has brown… and these carpets are pretty much ruined at this point, it’s going to cost a pretty penny to replace them, but we’re going to lease option the house, so we MAY not have to replace them, which is good… assuming that’s what happens.  So anyway, their punishment for toasting toaster strudels last Sunday was to lose dessert for a week.  So yesterday I was kind of frustrated that once again they had food outside the kitchen.  Evidently there was a miscommunication, where Bec asked Syd to get her some cereal, but didn’t specify WHERE, and when Syd brought it out, she spilled it on the floor, and Becca was eating it off the floor.  (Hm… see why I don’t want food outside of the kitchen????)  However, NO ONE said, hey we’re not supposed to have food outside of the kitchen… until I came downstairs to find Syd guiltily running to the kitchen.  She KNEW.  So Jerry suggested that it not be a whole week, to which I agreed.  I’m just freaking tired of having my rules broken constantly, with such disregard.  It’s like, how much can I/we get away with?  And being pregnant, I haven’t been "up" to my usual vigilance, so they’re getting away with more things these days.  I have told them to quit taking advantage of me in my condition.  I think I expect too much. 

Okay, I’m sure that I’ve complained about the kids enough.  It’s just heavy on my mind.  I’m really tired even now, and I’m gonna need a nap soon.  Becca went with Jerry to the office, Nancy called me to see if I would go with Brian to pick up Kassandra… this is NOT an idea I’m thrilled with to say the least… waste of my time, truthfully.  I should get back to cleaning my room… re-organizing my scraprack.  This is NOT a task I’m up to either… I need that nap.  But if I take it, then Syd and Shabree will once again take advantage of me.  Sigh.  I should stay up anyway, but when I do that, then I REALLY end up crabby.  I think all this stress is partially why I keep having contractions.   So yea, I need a break… told Jerry this, but not seeing when it’s going to be ABLE to happen.   So much to do in the next few weeks… wow… I wrote years, then looked at that and thought, that is a LONG time, and I meant to write weeks… what a Freudian slip THAT was, lol.  My brain is just mush these days… pregnant brain strikes me constantly. 
Syd has a classmate…this girl has called NINE times this morning (NINE times… I sound like Ferris Beuller’s Day Off)  And when Jerry or I have answered, she’s hung up half the time… I told her this last time that this had to be the last phone call.  And when Syd took the phone, she hung up again… I’m not sure she knows how to use the phone, but that had better be the last time she calls.  I think, probably like Syd, she’s just calling to use the phone, cause up til now, she’s not been allowed, and she doesn’t know HOW to use the phone.  But she’s being so annoying.  Her parents must still be asleep, lol.  I know I wish I was.    But then, MY kids would be calling and annoying other kid’s parents . 

I guess I should post, it’s almost 11 a.m.  I should do something a LITTLE more productive than be on the computer all day long.  I’ve got quite a mess going upstairs, need to see about working on it.

*Edit*

Got my nap.  Let the girls watch Elmo in Groundland while I slept, now they’re watching Fraggle Rock… Sydni is doing her punishment, washing the dishes.  Those girls sure do wiggle the bed though, but I still got a decent enough nap, I believe.  I don’t mind them watching videos so much.  Guess when Syd is done cleaning, I’ll go up and work.  Not much happening on my usual "haunts" today… email, 2peasinabucket.  Might as well work.  LOL