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!!)