the back door

so, once again it has been a little while since i've posted. it has been crazy busy for me lately and i have learned some things about myself - mainly one big thing - i am not cut out to be a working mom!!! i work part time and mostly from home, although these days, i spend most of the day either at work or out in meetings about work. i do get to enjoy a fun coffee with a friend and occasionally a lunch date with hubby, but the past several weeks have been nuts. while i love my job, i have learned i don't cope well. there have been several days that when i get home the kids arrive just a few minutes later and i am mentally not prepared. i feel like the house is in disarray and i'm scattered and tense. i know, i have no room to complain. i have a lot of working mom friends and i have such a great respect for their ability to fully function in both realms. somedays i think if i could just totally leave my work at work it would be easier, but my work is here at home with...

if we had one of these charts at home it would look like this: last week - 60's and breezy weekend - cooler and very windy yeah - just like spring monday - RAIN, RAIN, RAIN - COLD tuesday - flooding - cold wednesday - MAJOR FLOODIING - really cold thursday - SNOW!!!!!! okay, at the risk of sounding like a wacked out environmentalist - something is not right!! this is not normal - even in northern indiana!

last friday was quite traumatic at our house. i had been out of town and was greeted by mapboy when i got home. his words - before i had even closed the door to the house - were "princess forgot to get off the bus and she hasn't stopped crying!" "um....honey!?!??!" so i find them both sitting on the couch watching strawberry shortcake. it was quite the site. princess was having those left over sob things. you moms know what i'm talking about. so when i ask for details - she lets loose again. this must have been bad.. hubby went to get the kids off the bus. he didn't see princess so he asked mapboy where she was. he looked behind him and said he didn't know. the other kids said she was on the bus. so hubby and mapboy take off following the bus. it turns the corner and they decided to come home and get the car to go and find her. as they are starting the back, the bus has come around the block and dropped her off where hubby was standin...

princess: mom! me: what? princess: can i get out of bed? me: yes.. princess: i can't see mapboy: i'll turn your light on, that's what big brothers are for! me to myself: yeah..he's finally getting it mapboy to princess: do my legs look longer? princess: yes they do mapboy: my underwear are so much shorter this morning me to myself: oh boy.. princess: do my legs look longer? mapboy: that one does. princess: wow, i really grew mapboy: i know, now i'm really tall.