Mopping

If there was one chore I could say I hate the most it's mopping. It's such a pain. Mopping to me is like mowing the grass to Jon. It's a chore we both hate to do so he gets the grass and I get the mopping! I really hate to do it when there are people home so it's a pain to get everyone out of the house to do it. It's a chore I know that should be done at least once a week but gets done maybe once a month (if that!) I do a lot of spot cleaning though. Under the kids chairs for sure! Today was a the big day. Got everyone out of the house and to tell you the truth it wasnt all that bad. 50 minutes is what it took without stopping. I was shocked at how much I swept before mopping since I think I am pretty good at keeping up with that but once I got all the chairs and such off the floor and did a big sweep I swear I swept up 2 cups full of crap! The thing that really gets me is when I go over the floors afterwards to dry it all up and how dirty the rags are...after I just mopped! The floors look nice and shiny clean now...hoping it'll stay that way until the big 4 year old party on Saturday!

Paper or Plastic

Our country is all about convenience and it's killing us...

a new blog

I tried a bunch of different free web blogs like wordpress, hub, typepad but I just couldnt figure them out as well as blogger. This blog is going to be more about me...maybe parenting stuff, political stuff, my obsession now on natural foods...blah blah blah. Sometime I just feel like writing what's on my mind that day and it just doesnt feel right putting it on the family blog. Maybe someone will comment or not...It's all good!

time away

The other day I was ready Brooke Burke's blog The Greatest Gift For Our Children on Modernmom.com and it was about how her and her man slipped away for a couple days to Mexico. She sounded like it was really hard for her to get away, she said she got teary eyed about the thought of leaving her kids. I even commented on the website on how I am so the opposite of that. I love my girls dearly. I have a 5 year old Kindergartner and 3 year old twins who go to Preschool 3 days away. My husband and I try and get away at least every 3 months for some time alone to keep our marriage up and get us in check. I am usually counting the days until the big weekend. When we are in the car driving away we are doing the happy dance...no kids for 2 nights and it's all about us! we don't have to feed them, dress them, bathe them, play with them or get up with them, it's pure adult time! I find that these times are great for me and my husband to have a chance to talk about something other then the kids. We can go out to eat with out rushing through a meal or hoping they have a kids menu and crayons. We get to sleep in and watch what we want to watch on the TV. For 48 hours it's about us and not them. Maybe Brooke has a hard time with it because she works and is away from the kids because of that. I don't know I just know that it wakes me up and it helps me be a better parent.