The September almost-4 tribe!!! - Page 7

[DecemberSun]

Oh Casina... I have major kitchen control. I have barely in the last year or so accepted help from my best friend when she comes over for dinner and wine. At first I would just make her sit in the kitchen and talk to me, but now it's actually fun to cook with someone and we have a great time. But it was very hard for me to give up that "control" for some reason. Sheesh, I act like I will die if my meal doesn't come out pefect or something. Use this dish, not that spoon, etc. I am a little leary about the house we made an offer on because the kitchen is *SO* small and my friend and I are both big women so it's going to be quite tight in there while we are both puttering about. Oh well...

I have been so freakin' sleepy lately. I have no idea why. Maybe my body is fighting off the strep that Kaylee and Crystal are growing in their lungs? All I know is that I just don't feel like myself lately, and I feel like crap. I hate letting myself be lazy. It just feels wrong. I used to drink a cup of tea in the afternoon for a pick-me-up, but now caffine doesn't even help! :yawning:

Enough rambling...

PS- Yes Rynna, tarantulas run free here, but this is the first one I've seen. (Did I mention that last week we found a Western Diamondback on our back porch, and about a month ago I found a scorpion the size of a mouse??? Yes, the desert is whacko.) And the wild tarantulas are way bigger than any pet tarantulas you may have seen! And yes, they are harmless and actually pretty cool looking. Scarey but cool.

[majazama]

what i'd have concerns with about (my kids anyways), vacuming is that they would suck up whatever they thought would fit into the vacum.

They are quite wild too, and I hope one day they listen to my reasoning.*sigh*

Weren't you just totally sick, Tea olive, and then you got into a car accident? How are you doing?

leah, you're pregnant, you're allowed to be tired, especially since you take care of 4 other kids full time!! (try b-complex vitamens for extra zoom)

Mothers are superheros, and a day WILL come when we are given the credit we deserve.

[MamaFern]

Originally Posted by majazama

what i'd have concerns with about (my kids anyways), vacuming is that they would suck up whatever they thought would fit into the vacum.

: i can so see haeven and samaya trying to vaccuum up the cats or something. they are mischevious yes, but so damn cute.

[majazama]

Originally Posted by MamaFern

: i can so see haeven and samaya trying to vaccuum up the cats or something. they are mischevious yes, but so damn cute.

I was going to elaborate, but didn't want to say *how* bad they can be, or where they get it from :

[MamaFern]

Originally Posted by majazama

I was going to elaborate, but didn't want to say *how* bad they can be, or where they get it from :

[tea olive]

we've done quite a few years now of vacuum seminar. funny, i only have one room that needs it regularly. i also have two boys that like to tell ruby what she can't do. they have vacuumed most everything, but i have kept it from sources of water and foodstuffs. one time they tried to get the big gravel outside with it. my dog used to get vacuumed.

...so jaz, why won't you tell us how bad it can be? i'm sure some of us can top you.

i woke up feeling relatively terrific today. i actually mowed the backyard cos it really needed it. i had thought i could never feel decent again, with pneumonia, period, and accident. just the wreck was making me move in slow motion!

my mom has serious kitchen control so i have really worked to be different. i found out recently that some of it is just that for example when i cut a mango, i just want to feel the comfort of doing something i know i can do and do well and wallow in it. i am reluctant to add instruction to a talkative and pushy boogerhead.

[majazama]

I don't own a vacum. And all my floors are linolium.

I'll pass for now on "how bad my kids can be"...

how bout yall go first?

[XmasEve]

Mona, I've been meaning to say, try a hammock. We've never used one with dc1, but it was a lifesaver when dc2 was a newborn. We strung her up right next to me in bed, but about a foot higher, so flailing 2yo couldn't get to her. Then she was big enough for the bed, but lately I've been getting sore of all night nursing, so I might invest in another hammock. And dc1 might get to try it too.

dc loves to vaccuum, cook, clean, you name it. And I have REAL housecleaning control issues. I used to be a housecleaner, so no one does it as well as me But with reading up on the Montessori philosophy more, I really have tried to incorporate the kids help more. Yesterday they each did a load of laundry by themselves! Even the 18mo!

[Mona]

Originally Posted by XmasEve

dc loves to vaccuum, cook, clean, you name it. And I have REAL housecleaning control issues. I used to be a housecleaner, so no one does it as well as me But with reading up on the Montessori philosophy more, I really have tried to incorporate the kids help more. Yesterday they each did a load of laundry by themselves! Even the 18mo!

wanna come over to my house?

actually, dd likes to do some laundry with me, and dusting, and sometimes the dustbuster but it is mostly too loud for her.

hammock eh? sounds interesting.

[saritasmile]

Razi likes to vacuum too but it's hard as my attitude toward cleaning is just get it done and over w/ so you can move onto anything else. Not very condusive to teaching as I have a tendancy to get impatient (where is that bag smilie guy?) I've always been like that. Just get it done fast (and good) I was a house cleaner for awhile too. Right now the biggest obstacle as far as cleanliness goes in the kitchen is actually mil...

Leah, you are so not lazy, just pregnant mama!! give yourself a break and enjoy 'taking it easy' because of it. I napped almost every day I was pregnant w/ Razi, so much for that this time around tho

[MamaFern]

we are having a MAJOR toilet paper probelm in the house.,.. well elwynn is. im tempted to do away with throw away TP because whole rolls are ending up in the toilet and i have to fish them out. we use recycled paper and its not cheap and i hate the waste thats going on. ive tried a million different ways of explaining to him that boys dont need to wipe their penis 5 times after each pee..that trees die to make toilet paper.. that it cloggs it up if you use too much... but hes insistant to the point of hysteria if i dont let him wipe at least 3 times.. he will use a cloth or a towl or whatever he can find but still.. ive been hiding the rolls in the bathroom but he is prtty smart and just looks for them. im at the point where ive tld him he isnt allowed in there without me.. but thats crapy.. hes been using the bathroom by himself for a long time ad its never been a problem.. how and why do these things come to be? arg.

[Mona]

why does he say he needs to have a super duper dry penis?
:P

sorry fern!!!! but i have to admit i giggled a few times, as i am a totally visual type.

[MamaFern]

he has major sensory issues.. especially about being wet. if his clothes are a little bit wet they have to come off (unless we areout in the rain ) so.. if he THINKS he dripped on his pants he feaks out..he's been like this for a long time but lately its been worse than usual.. i dont think he has OCD but he is definately very senstive.

[DecemberSun]

When my Dad was building our house in WA while I was growing up we didn't have the handy toilet paper holder thingies so I constantly dropped the TP into the water. My parents hated it, lol. They just dried it out and we used it anyway.

I felt better today. I actually shaved my legs for the first time in a couple months. (One of the great things about having blonde hair.)

[eilonwy]

Fern: have you tried asking Elwynn what you can do, by way of compromise? Perhaps he'd be happier with cloth wipes anyway (you feel more dry, and don't have the whole bother of little bits of toilet paper all over)? I'm so glad Bean doesn't have major sensory issues; he just shakes it off.

BeanBean and BooBah fight over who gets to run the vacuum. Bean usually wins and BooBah ends up running around, shrieking and giggling. Two weeks ago, he told MIL "I wish you'd give somebody a haircut so that I can vacuum up the hair." She said she wanted to cut his hair, and he answered, "No, thanks," just as smoothly as you please. Okay, all typed out it doesn't look that funny, but it was *hilarious* when it happened.

BooBah has sensory issues. She wants to wear nothing but fleece pajamas, and the entire neighborhood knows if her clothing gets wet. Those pictures in my sig of BooBah? They were followed by her stripping *completely*, and throwing a tantrum when we insisted that she wear underpants. It was after that weekend that I formally gave up on getting her to wear other clothing, but we have had a revalation since-- she's willing to wear tights. Only cotton ones, and only if they fit her (which means 6-18 month size, because she's skinny and short-legged), but tights! She will wear jeans over said tights, and yesterday she even wore a skirt! She also keeps her shoes on for *much* longer in the tights, she even kept them on for two hours in the car! I was so impressed. Anyway, I guess this means that I have to find more cotton tights. The two pairs she had came from a Mennonite department store which I probably won't get to before black Friday (and then with no money : )...

I've lost the foot to my sewing machine. I was going to stitch up some fleece pajama pants for BooBah, had everything set up, but couldn't find my bobbins or the foot-pedal. I'm horribly depressed about this, and very angry with BeanBean who has no idea why. Yeesh. Oh, and I left my sling at the ILs Saturday, so of course Bella has been extra miserable because she's accustomed to living in said sling, and it's too warm indoors to wear the KK fleece pouch for very long.

Have I mentioned that I'm having a really, really long week? Sorry to vent at y'all, you ladies don't deserve it. Do me a favor, for the sake of my karma or soul or whatever you want to call it and click on the "Forgive me?" link in my sig, k? Thanks.

[majazama]

wish the kids would go to bed. Its 11:44 PM.:

rynna, I love your posts!

[eilonwy]

BooBah and Bella are sick. Please think happy, healthy, easy-breathing thoughts toward them today. :

[Mona]

yeah, i love rynna's posts too. i'd like to read more of her posts.
/winkwink /nudgenudge

i'd second the cloth wipes idea fern. its only recently that we've switced to paper tp for K. i know wes would never go for cloth wipes, so i haven't even mentioned it. maybe when we're older and i've swayed him to more of my hippy ways. :P

it seems like we all have sensitive children in some way or another. i wouldn't worry about it too much fern. half the time wes thinks k is totally bonkers, but i think she's just a 3 year old who has some sensitivties.

the night before k slept ALL THE WAY THRU the night omfg.
but last night, she woke up at 10pm with a horrible tummy ache and i stayed inthere all night. (what wonderful contraception this child is)
i had eaten a tofu sandwhich for lunch, but i really didnt think she was getting any of my milk. but for fucks sake, maybe she is. or maybe it was some other random food issue. i wish k 's stomach wasn't so senstive. :
oh well,i wasn't really in the mood anyway. :

jaz- damn, that is a late night. do they nap late or something? with out a nap, k gets to bed around 7pm, but she wakes up around 6am, so there you go.

[Mona]

Originally Posted by eilonwy

BooBah and Bella are sick. Please think happy, healthy, easy-breathing thoughts toward them today. :

we cross posted, i'm sorry rynna.
i'll be thinking good thoughts of your monkeys today.
try not to get sick yourself.

[MamaFern]

Originally Posted by eilonwy

Fern: have you tried asking Elwynn what you can do, by way of compromise? Perhaps he'd be happier with cloth wipes anyway (you feel more dry, and don't have the whole bother of little bits of toilet paper all over)? I'm so glad Bean doesn't have major sensory issues; he just shakes it off.

we do use cloths a lot.. but i keep TP in the bathroom as well so it just gets used. we have talked about how we can make everyone feel happy about this but maybe it just needs to run its course. this too shall pass right?


sorry to hear about the sickness ngaio has a cold too.. she was feverish all day yesterday and just wanted to nurse non stop and sleep. its so sad when kids are sick. sending healing thuoghts your way.


jazz.. the late sleep thing sucks. ive started getting the kids to bed around 8 or 9 (but E wake up at 7 now.... ug) but it means having some quiet time for me.. so i am really glad about it. my rule for elwynn is NO naps. otherwise he's up till all hours of the night. ngaio usually sleeps in for a few hours after i get up with E so we get some alone time together as well.. which is so nice (and i shouldnt be wasting it on mdc )