Kids for Sale!

Who am I kidding--they're free--no one would pay for what I'm offering! I would actually put them on a curb with a sign that said "free to a good home" if I thought I could get away with it. God knows I love them with all my heart, but the bickering has actually set me on my way to the wine rack well before lunchtime, several times this week! Thank goodness I need coffee more than wine...otherwise I'd be drunk by lunch! And this cold I have makes it impossible to taste the wine and I refuse to waste it on dead tastebuds...so the wine is safe, for now.

Story of my life...we're at the library and I am signing the kids up for the summer book club when Zac refuses to let Lillie carry some books....que the screaming and bickering...all while I'm trying to look NICE while gritting my teeth and telling them to HUSH IT! Then Zac drops a book on Lillie's foot and you'd think it cut her foot clean off her body with the way she was carrying on. Talk about embarrassment!

We get in the car where they start reading to get ahead on the summer book club and I'm all set to have a few moments of peace when Lillie starts "reading" and Zac tells her she's not really reading what's on the page....que more bickering! I just want to fast forward them 20 years and turn them around to look at themselves on this day to see how absolutely SILLY it is to be fighting over something so dumb! So being the mean Mom I am, I tell Zac that he wasn't reading when he was 4 and that it's prefectly normal blah blah blah. That doesn't do the trick, so being dumb myself, I pull into Burger King and get them kids meals---to quiet them for 5 minutes---I'm willing to pay $7 for 5 minutes of quiet and stupid toys that will most likely be thrown out next time Rumpke comes around.

On a good note...the library still allows me to check out videos....I pay a late fee 90% of the time...I thought I was more organized than I am. Anyway, the kids got videos and are currently watching them on seperate TVs on seperate floors of the house and life is soooo nice right now! Must go back to library to get MORE videos! BYE!