A relaxing Tuesday. Well, for me. The kids, not so much.

[stoney321]

Hoarders was on last night, which means that I'm in a cleaning the whole house mood. (I clean my viewing room top to bottom before watching.) I've recapped it and added some commentary, it's at Hey, Don't Judge Me.

The kids have been bickering (a side effect of taking a week off of camps and it being 100 degrees outside) so if you've time to lean, you've time to clean.

• washing windows and their ledges
• washing cabinet doors of fingerprints, spills, etc. and the accompanying kick plates in the kitchen
• cat litter pans emptied, refilled with fresh litter, and cat litter room mopped and sterilized
• dusting all the things in the common areas
• all ceiling fans cleared of dust
• air registers vacuumed

Ah, it's a lovely day in my house. (Trick: have them all put on head phones and mp3 players and hide in my bedroom.) I'm a big believer in kids having chores. Esp. when they stay up later than their mother and leave the kitchen a wreck. :)

I shall reward them with a trip to the libraries and ice creams, for I am not a monster. Well, not all the time. Mmm, Ben & Jerrys on a waffle cone, those are treats we don't often partake in.

My son has two dudes coming over to play XBox and swim, and I know that most of the work done today will be undone, but it'll be nice while it lasts. HI GUYS. (I just shouted into the ether, "Stop fighting or I'm going to treat you like babies!" I don't know what that means, put them in diapers and bouncy chairs? Gah. I am brain dead from bickering.)

I'm ordering pizza for dinner. It's that or they eat a half watermelon on the front porch and I toss cold, hard-boiled eggs at them.

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Chores is one thing I wish I had kids for. I have to do all these things myself and they don't get done often enough.

I am just back from my walk and look like I have been having a fun afternoon running through the sprinklers...except for being all red and the sprinklers are all me. Weatherman said it's a hundred degrees, but the heat index is 115 with no end in sight. Blergh. I can't wait for the mister to get his new hours (he doesn't go in until 10:30, pushing my walk to almost noon). I am wilting.

I like the idea of half a watermelon and pelting them with unpeeled hard boiled eggs.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend borrowing some children to do your chores. It's good for them and for you. Surely some bored mother out there is willing to loan them out. Just provide juice boxes,

OY, it is SO HOT out there. How can you go so late in the day? I wish a bucket of gatorade would show up at your doorstep. I look forward to your mister's new hours, too, if only for your sake.

Ahahahahahahahaha.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I see pics of your apartment and I am filled with hope, for you are still a young person and you have TIDY QUARTERS. I like that.

Ooooh, good point. Maybe I'll treat them like titty babies? Which means mocking them and not inviting them to play dolls later.

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

"(I just shouted into the ether, "Stop fighting or I'm going to treat you like babies!" I don't know what that means, put them in diapers and bouncy chairs?"


That means put them in a playpen. But since you can't find one big enough, it'll be a large dog crate.

*helping

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice! I HAVE A DOG CRATE, OH JOY. And it's in the garage, DOUBLE JOY.

I'm here to help.

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

If it gets really hot, you can open the garage door a crack.

Re: I'm here to help.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

You're like the Buddha of motherhood.

Re: I'm here to help.

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

*snort* That's awesome. I hope someday my daughter makes me a crayon melty candle with that written on it.

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

(Trick: have them all put on head phones and mp3 players and hide in my bedroom.) *copies carefully into my new mom handbook*

I wish someone would come do my ceiling fans. I'm short. And lazy.

You say that like watermelon and cold hard-boiled eggs is a bad thing? We have been super good, so I am rewarding us with Sue's Famous Peanut Butter Cookies. I replaced the butter with "I Can't Believe It's Not" and the sugar with honey and feel somewhat less guilty. Cancels out the white flour, right?

It's cooled down to a frigid 88 degrees after the rain. I wish you rain, since your first child was already a masculine child.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I will send the boy to you post haste. Keep lots of lima beans, creamed spinach, and pizza on hand, he'll do whatever you ask. (Those are his faves. Lima beans. The hell?)

Oh, in my opinion that's a perfect summer dinner. The kids are all "but we need more filling foods because we're growing!" Pfft. Mmm, I've not had peanut butter cookies in a long time. I love them. I should remedy this.

Oooh, rain would be nice! I'm not close enough to the Red River to get any today, alas.

[tabaqui]

Bwaaahahaha. Sometimes i just feel like taking a box of crackers and a hunk of cheese and tossing them into the living room and going 'soup's on!!' In this heat, cooking sucks.

The Bebe is off to her cousin's house until Saturday, yay, and then the cousin comes here for five days or whatever. So i'll just be drifting around the quiet house, not having to clean things. Yay!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

We often have "fend for yourself" nights. It doesn't help when one child eats enough for a meal as their "snack" and then doesn't want dinner, and the others are running around outside with friends at supper time. Eh, they're old enough to know how to make themselves food, I ain't bovvered. ;)

Oh, that sounds DELIGHTFUL.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I cleaned today too, and I wasn't even motivated by Hoarders!!!

I found the paint on our (internal) french doors. I cannot lie — it'd been so long since I'd deepcleaned them (I WAS SICK. [obligatory]) that the place where the dogs pawed it, I thought, was permanently damaged. NO. It was just dog paw scuffs! They came off!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Good for you!! Isn't that a great feeling? YAY, I won't have to paint something! LOL.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

It is!!

But I think today I'm paying for it. I also cleaned the ceiling fixtures yesterday and must have gotten dust/etc in my pores or something? My face is all swollen on one side. I look like I've been punched! And my eye is weeping.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

SINUS RINSE. I swear by them. I worship at the ground near their feet. Bottles. Whatever. GET THEE TO THE CVS, POST HASTE!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I have them! I use 'em all the time. In fact, I have a regular subscription for one from Amazon - I get a delivery every month! (I love Amazon Prime).

I've done it three times already. I think this has permeated my pores.