Back to School

Ok so I am not going back to school, but I am going back to daycare. I was going to watch a friend of Logan's this year until his older siblings got home from school, but I figured why not add another one so there was a friend for emma too. Well I did and now I have 4 additional kids! It is wonderful. Oddly enough I really am enjoying it. I have never been so tired at the end of the day, but it is very easy going kind of day. The kids are all getting along really well together, knock on wood, and that gives me a few minutes a day to get my house picked up or cleaned a little bit.

Yes I am keeping the house fairly clean. I can't say that it is spotless at all times, or ever really, but you can see the carpet in all the rooms, the bottom of both kitchen sink basins, and the counter tops. I even manage to mop the floor once a week!

The extra money is great to help with the few bills that we were falling behind on and some in the coffers for some sod this fall! Yay!!! I will have grass that can be walked on in bare feet. What a concept! It is just the back little bit, but I really needed to have some grass in there with all the kids I have during the day.

Oh and congrats to Heather and Jared~ You know why.

My bathroom sucks

~steps up onto soap box~

Ok so all day today the Nekked Princess has been playing in the sink upstairs in the bathroom. She soaked the floor, herself and I have found a trail of water leading from the bathroom, down the hall and ending in a large puddle in her bedroom. I think to myself, Ok I will just turn off the water. I have told her repeatedly today and countless other days that I do not want her playing in the sink. It has never sunk in I guess. At 3 years old though I don't really expect her to be the queen of obedience.

I unlock the cabinet below the sink (yes it is kept locked, with my brood can you blame me?) Twist the handle to the cold and hot water shut offs and then turn the handles on the faucett. Of course water is still coming out, albeit with less pressure. I get a bit of rusty water from the 1966 iron pipes and I turn the shut offs the other direction. Still nothing is completely shut off! I figure my idea was a bad one seeing as we have the stupidest house on the planet. Nothing works as it should. I turn the knobs back to their starting point, which was about half on/half off, and I still have very little water pressure!!!! Are you kidding me? I can not get the water to come back to the previous water pressure no matter which direction I twist those nasty little knobs.


So now I have a bathroom that my darling daughter will not be able to play in the water in, but neither can we wash our hands! Ok so we do have a second sink in that bathroom, but I am just so pissed off! Why was this house put together by a sub-sub-contractor who didn't know what they were doing? GRRRRRRR! I want to move! Can anyone lend me $100,000 interest free?

~steps down from soap box~

Who taught her this?

Emma has been running around all day basiclly nekked. She prefers it that way and really I don't mind since we are not going anywhere and it helps her go on the potty. I went down to use the bathroom myself and this is what I saw! I had to keep myself from busting up laughing. I mean really who taught her this? I guess it was her daddy!

Isn't it the man who spends more time in the throne room than anyone just being "alone"? Anyway here you go. Don't worry they are tame!