Mamma Mia!

I know! Two blog posts in one day! Unusual! But this one I am really excited about! Tomorrow at 2 I am going to go see Mamma Mia! Bri from church (Lily's BFF's mom) invited me to go since she had an extra ticket! I am so excited to see it! I will update tomorrow night (maybe, lol...you know how it is with me sometimes!) about how it was!

Just blah......and our week

I am in a slump. Not really sure why. Not feeling depressed or anything, just kinda blah.

The other day, the kids were in my room on the computer. Then they start fighting over who gets to sit in the chair at the desk. Nevermind the fact that there is a chair directly next to that chair with the same view. *Rolling my eyes* Well, they are arguing....then the blood curdling scream starts. From Riley. Lily got mad and decided to bite him. On his back near his armpit. He was wearing a shirt but she bit so hard that she drew blood on him through his shirt! She got spanked and sent to her room. Of course, the next two hours Riley kept crying in agony (my little drama queen!).

The next day we go to the library. I tell them before we go in: You have to be quiet, you must NOT run, you have to walk. We are going to look for mommy books first, THEN we can go downstairs and look at the kids books. Needless to say, the quiet and don't run do NOT happen while upstairs. So of course Lily trips and falls....on that really awful carpet that will skin your knees when you fall. Crying ensues. *Sigh* So after finding 3 books for me (out of a long list- I was too stressed to look anymore for me) we head downstairs. Where they play puppets for all of two minutes, then do puzzles (for less than a minute) then they go sit in the boat (a wooden table with benches inside there). By the time I find them a few books, they are running again....time to go. So I tell them to come with me to go upstairs and checkout. Of COURSE, Riley runs. And trips. On that horrid carpet. All out wailing ensues. I clamp my hand on his mouth and quickly head for the elevator. Shut the doors, unclamp my hand from his mouth, and wait to push the button til he stops wailing. We finally get back upstairs, check out and leave.

Today we went to a family reunion at a park. The kids see the playground and want to go play, but I tell them they need to eat first. After they ate grandpa took them to the playground (bless him!). They played, they ate, played some more, ate some more, played, ate. I tell them we are going to the bathroom so we can leave (it is a 40 minute drive to this park and they both just drank half a cup of ginger ale, don't want accidents, lol). They go potty and we start walking towards the car. Apparently Riley ran over his big toe with the bathroom door on his way out. He acts fine til he looks down and see blood. Wailing ensues (getting the picture of how much of a drama queen he can be?? Wailing can happen over almost anything with him!). I get him to sit, use a babywipe to wrap around his toe and give hima piggy back ride back to the car. Remember how Riley is big for his age?? He is 4 foot tall and 50+ pounds....on my back. Not an easy walk to the car for me! Get them loaded up, say bye to my mom (kinda had to call by to everyone as we walked by to the car). First 10 minutes of the drive, crying, wailing, the wipe fell off, etc. Then (blessedly!) he fell asleep. He tells me he can't walk from the car to the apartment.....but he had to. He spent the next two hours on the couch complaining of how bad it hurts. Then he didn't want a bath because his toe hurt. Sorry, too bad! Turns out that the bath did not kill him or make his toe fall off, lol. And now, they sleep (after being in trouble multiple times for being out of bed.....grrr). So, now you have a sort of picture of how our week usually goes.

Also, we are house hunting. I want to stay in Mishawaka or Osceola (Osceola being more preferable). Possibly Elkhart, but we have to be careful because some of those neighborhoods look nice, but are ghetto (like rob you in your front yard at gunpoint in broad daylight ghetto- happened to my uncle a couple months ago). James keeps looking further away (I think mainly because it is cheaper, and the garages are a lot bigger). I really wouldn't mind if we didn't live in an area that gets bombarded with major snow from Dec 1 to the beginning of March. But I do not want to live out in the sticks where you wait for days for the roads to be plowed! Even if the ones in the town are plowed, the ones between town and my family probably are not. So we are looking. And I hope to win this battle. Because right now I am the one living here alone and having to drive. And I do NOT want to be stuck in a house where I don't know anyone for a week or more due to the roads. And I don't want to have to drive 30 miles to get to a 'real' store, lol. So pray for us, that we can find something we both can live with, nearby......oh and that my kids do not drive me to the edge of insanity!

One more thing. Riley starts full day kindergarten on August 18th! YAY! James is planning on being here for his first day of school. He is looking forward to it (and so am I ;)