Being a parent just sucks sometimes.
There are some bloggers I read that are always so upbeat about their children. They homeschool, they entertain the kids while doing amazing projects of their own, they revel in each day and delightful thing their children do. Sibling rivalry is unheard of and each meal is a gourmet delight that their children eat with gusto.
Bah Humbug.
Maybe I'm just overwhelmed with the move still. Maybe it's because Greg's out of town this week. Maybe it's summer break and it's a kid's prerogative to make their parents insane.
Yesterday I bought new (expensive) bikes helmets for the kids. This morning I found 4 of the 5 (go Kyle!) in the front yard along with Zach's bike and Kelly's scooter.
The kids have been sneaking food from the kitchen and leaving it all over the house. I found Cheerios on the stairs, crunched corn chips on the dining room floor, and a gogurt wrapper in the living room.
Kyle had a bloody nose yesterday. I hate cleaning blood out of carpet.
Currently there are 4 blankets, 3 stuffed animals, 1 t-shirt, and 7 pillows on the family room floor.
The kids' definition of emptying and reloading the dishwasher is forgetting two clean pans in it (and therefore making them dirty again by putting cereal bowls in the rack above them), setting the clean plates on the counter under the cabinet they belong in, and leaving a dirty pot on the stove and dirty spoons and knives in the sink.
I'm tired of answering "what's for < insert meal >?" twenty times a day. The answer is going to be something they probably don't like anyways and no, we don't have any more < insert fruit/granola bar/popscicle > because someone ate all of them without asking. I'm thinking about installing a hidden camera in the kitchen.
I still don't want to go to the pool. I'm like the Scrooge of summer fun.
I keep putting off errands because the kids have reverted to 2 year old behavior and I can't take them to more than one place each day. I thought about hiring a babysitter (although she wasn't available today) but then I realized the money I might save by hitting a few different stores (for groceries, toiletries, school supplies, clothing, craft supplies) would be negated by the $40 babysitting fee. We went grocery shopping this morning and I bought about half the school supplies online this morning. I'm not sure how I'm going to buy everything else and it gives me a headache thinking about it.
I miss writing fiction. All I seem to do is clean, sew, and break up fights.
I'm not one to usually whine about stuff like this but I'm kinda feel bogged down by it all and the "answer" to fixing it all doesn't seem very obvious at the moment.
Unless the answer is a maid, chef, personal shopper, and pool loving nanny.
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