Upset with Shabree

OMG, she’s driving me up a wall.  Let’s see… asked her to load the dishes, she went to her room, and when I was done making her breakfast, she refused to come down, because "You’re just trying to make me do the dishes."  So I finally told her, you can either load the dishes or do the handwash.  Well, she chose the handwash.  WELL, the handwash hasn’t been done in like 3 days, so it’s built up and there’s a lot to do.  So of course, she’s yelling at me how she’s NOT going to do all these dishes.  This after she woke me up from a nap because Sydni ACCIDENTALLY slapped her while they were playing, and probably woke up her sisters too (I THOUGHT I heard them, but when I checked on Alex, she was asleep, so I let it go, and Sammi I’ll get out of her room when she starts banging on the door.  Until then, she’s fine.)  Right after I woke up, the phone rang, and it was Pat’s daughter, Renee.  She wanted to know if Syd and Becca could go to John’s Incredible Pizza with her, some membership drive for a youth group, and I KNEW they’d love that, so I agreed to meet her in Galt to give her the kids.  It’s in Modesto, and we plan to go to the snow tomorrow, so I didn’t want to spend the gas to go all the way to Modesto.  Had we had to take them, we probably wouldn’t have gone.  So Shabree had herself a good little cry over not being able to go, though she should KNOW by now that when the other girls get to do something special, we often do something special too, even if it’s just dinner and a movie and mommy and daddy all to herself, or the tv all to herself.  It’s not like she suffers, because she doesn’t.  She ALWAYS has fun when the other girls are off having fun.  And dinner and a video at home are like the LEAST of the special things we do.  We like to take the girls out for dinner when one or two are missing, because that means less money.  So she’s  upset over nothing.  But then, it IS John’s Pizza, and that IS our very, most favorite, bestest place to go to eat.  That’s where some of our best memories came from.  We simply adore John’s Incredible Pizza.  So yea… that could be part of it too.  It makes ME want to go to John’s too.  I just don’t know if we have the money.  We missed out on a stellar opportunity a few months ago, we had TWO free dinner coupons, but it wasn’t enough, we simply didn’t have enough money to take the rest of the family.  Such a bummer. 

So, I told Shabree that if she didn’t get the handwash dishes done, ALL of them, that she was going to be grounded to her room, for tonight, and possibly the rest of the weekend as well.  I am quite tired of her attitude, and her yelling at me when she has to do something she doesn’t want to do.  I am also quite tired of how disrespectfully they treat each other when they speak, because they are rude, mean, bossy, etc, I mean, I can’t even THINK of it all! 

Oh goodness.  I’ve got to go take a shower, and get dressed.  I have yet to change from my purple sweats I was wearing yesterday… so comfy, but yea… not good for "going out."  I do hope we’ll go out.  We were just going to have pizza at home, so now I don’t know what we’ll do.  In ANY case, I need to be dressed better than this.  Will try to post more tonight.  I’ve got to go check on Shabree anyway.  It IS a lot of dishes, but she’s MORE than capable.  If Sammi can put away silverware at the age of 2, Shabree can handwash dishes at the age of 6, and actually, I’ve SEEN her do it, she does a better, more careful job than Becca, because she tries.  Becca doesn’t even try because she thinks it’s going to get her out of doing it… which is another entry altogether!  Some days, I do NOT know how I keep my sanity, lol.  I just do.  Oh, and I’ve got to put away some dishes myself.