Spinning out of control

I almost feel as if I'm some sick kind of ride that won't let me off!! I hate to complain about my children all the time, but really that's life!! It's not even really the kids, it's the constant long list of to do's that makes me crazy!! Let me just bullet style some of my frustrations here...

• I want to write this really nice blog post with pictures, but Max has issues with me doing something other than entertaining him 24/7!!
• Jack is part of this robotics team in Middle School, it's fine and dandy, but the parents feel like they need to send 20 emails complaining about moving the competition to a much smaller one that yes, is a little farther away!! Get over it people do what's right for the kids, and suck up the rest of it!!
• I have no food in my house, I have to go grocery shopping asap!!
• I have like 6-7 loads of laundry to fold on my couch in my bedroom...no joke!!
• Max won't nap for the life of him, and wakes up at 5:30 every morning...ugh!!
• I guess that Harrison has some big project due on Friday at school, that Tim forgot to tell me about!! Please stop taking papers out of his folder if you're not going to tell me about them!!! I had to email his teacher, with the whole "um, I have no idea what project this is could you send me the info, sorry". Nice!!
• I suppose I'm going to have to start to pack for FL sometime in the near future.
• I have a girl scout meeting on Wed have no idea what I'm going to do, I really hate doing this!! On the other hand I'm glad I could do it for Liv, but it's going to cost me a small fortune and I defiantly don't have the time for it!!
• I'm suppose to set up a photography table at MOPS this Friday, have no idea how I'm going to pull that one out of my a**!!
• My house is a pit, literally needs some help, preferably by someone other than myself!!
• We wanted to decorate for Christmas before I left for FL, don't think that one is going to happen!!
• I need a break, Tim has been working the past two weekends, and honestly I'm more than burnt!!
• Do Mom's get breaks?? Why doesn't the government give us some free childcare for like a month out of the year?? Why is nothing available to stay at Mom's, I think that sucks!!
  
• I'm sick of family nights at school, with three kids in school I could eat out at one of these family nights almost every other night..enough!!

I think I may be a tad bit crabby today, but really I feel like I'm spiraling out of control, not good!! Tim is so busy with his side business, which is a huge blessing, but it leaves me with almost no time to do anything I need to do!! It's times like these that I miss having family close by to help out!!

Still determined to do "the post" tonight though!! And just to clarify how I'm finding the time right now, well yesterday's and today's post were typed with Max hanging on my legs while I bounce him...fun!! So no, I don't go back and read this, I'm sure there are many typos and things that don't make sense, but I'm sure you can all figure it out!!

FAILURE

Yup, I guess I knew it would never happen even as I typed the desire to do so!! Blogging everyday is/would be a HUGE challenge for me, but really I'm going to to try harder!!

So my kids are spoiled brats, thought I'd just go ahead and just blurt that out! :) I've realized it this year, I have failed in that part of parenting and have defiantly overindulged them with "stuff"!! They have so much, too much, things that are still unopened from last Christmas...just plain sad!! So I sat them down and told them that this year was going to be different, it wasn't going to be I get everything on my list kinda year!! I told them three gifts from Santa, and of course some gifts from us, but not a ton!! They are not liking this idea, they each had their own mini break down, and I thought to myself "what I have done"!! How did I raise these kids to be so greedy and unappreciative?? In my quest to make them happy and give them everything they hearts could desire, I've turned them into spoiled, bratty kids...YIKES!! Example: We asked Jack to mow the lawn and do the dishes, we offered him a allowance of $10 a week, so $40 a month, I didn't think that was a bad deal!! He asked if he could just not do it and not get the allowance!! Really, what 12 year old passes up $40 a month to do barely anything?? He gets asked to babysit (where he gets paid $10 a hour mind you) and he passes because he doesn't feel like it, shit I'll do it for $10 a hour!! So things are going to be changing in this house, quite dramatically for my children!

I also told them they are going to do some charity work this December, I'm thinking soup kitchen, homeless shelter, taking gifts to children, do you guys have any ideas?? I really want them to get a idea in their head this Christmas about something other than receiving 100 gifts!!

(So I'm posting my "big news" tomorrow, which all of you already know for sure!! But I'll tell you the story, which most of you know anyways, but I'll still do it!!)

A challenge I'm sure to fail :)

So I read over at Ashley's blog that it was national blog month, and the goal is for all the bloggers out there to blog every day!! I'm certainly not a good blogger so I thought I might just give this a try!! I had a great post in my head all morning, but Max wouldn't give me 5 min's to sit down and start typing, so now it's late, I'm tired, I'm wondering if I could even keep up with this for a week..but I'm going to try!!

I'm tired...did I say that already...maybe a wee bit overwhelmed with four extremely needie kids!! I've given all I've got today, like I do most days, just some days it doesn't seem to be enough for these vulchers I call my children (jk)!!

Hopefully I will be able to post about our exciting news tomorrow!!

Sooo...

A. someone needs to tell Max naps are a good idea so I can have time to myself again to blog and facebook, ya know do all those important things in life!!

B. someone needs to talk to my kid's school and tell them another hour of school would make my life a little easier :)

C. someone needs to talk to my kids about being so gosh darn needy :)

I miss blogging, I feel bad for a few of my friends who aren't friends with me on facebook (you know who you are :) ) that I don't post any pictures on here of the kids anymore!!

Blah, I have so much to tell you guys!!