Worst Mom....EVER!!!

Yah', so that would be me. A note came home from school yesterday about "Beach Day"--they were supposed to wear swimsuits, bring towels, and bring a sack lunch. I read the note, looked at the calendar---it was for next Tuesday (or so I thought), put the note on the fridge to remind me, and went about my day. This morning I got the boys ready and took them to Grammy's and I went to work--just a normal Tuesday. Well, when I got home tonight Cameron calmly said, "Mom, I missed Beach Day. Everybody else had their lunches and swimsuits, but me." Then the waterworks came---his, not mine. (Mine came after we put the boys to bed.) Oh my goodness, I feel awful. Like being a mom isn't hard enough, but when you screw-up like this, it just brings on a whole new level of guilt.

After making a dozen phone calls, I will be taking Cam tomorrow to the AF Target to buy Lego Batman for the xBox 360. It will forever be known as the, "my mom is a dumbass game."

Is It Time for Prayer or Story?

Fam picture from Christmas Eve--hard to line it up just right.

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Tonight when we were putting the boys to bed Cam said his prayers first then it was Spencer's turn. It is kind of comforting to know that my mind isn't the only one that wanders at times when prayers are being said. Spencer kneels on his bed, folds his arms, bows his head and says, "Once upon a time...." Oh, so stinkin' funny. How I love my boys.

The Aliens in my House

Picture of the Aliens. They may look like adorable little boys in their Christmas outfits (they even chose their own ties), but looks are deceiving.......today they might as well be aliens.

ALIEN #1--otherwise known as Spencer: I would like to know what 3-almost-4-year-old gets the concept of delayed gratification. Because this little alien does. Cameron has been an angel to share his DS with Spencer. Despite his generosity, we have had many a fight over the DS. Since Spencer's birthday is Feb 1st--we thought we would get him his own DS and the exact same game as Cam. Sweet, problem solved. Or so we thought. The fighting has escalated to the point where we told Spencer last Saturday that we would go to Wal-Mart that very day and get his birthday present early. We explained that he will still get other presents, but that will be his main gift. The little stink wanted to wait for his birthday. In fact, I ask him every day if he still wants to wait and he does. Dude, I would take it early---birthday, schmirthday. See---alien.

ALIEN #2--Cameron. This might have more to do with him being a boy, than him being Cameron, but it's still weird to me. What is it with boys and video games????? Seriously. Cam had a playdate today with a boy in his Kindergarten class. They pulled out their DS's and I went to clean the bathrooms---20 minutes later I come out to total silence. Cameron on one end of the couch and his friend on the other. No talking, no interaction----hello boys. I told them to turn off the DS's and go play with toys. They obeyed right away, but 5 minutes later I headed down to clean the basement bathroom and they were setting up the Wii. Holy Crap----I kept my cool, but firmly told them to turn off ANY video game they had and to pull out the imaginext castles and play. There was seriously 20 minutes of whining and " we're bored". Finally they listened to their mommy and got out all 3 imaginext castles and had a ball for all of 20 minutes before his friend's mom came to pick him up.

So to all of my friends and family reading this with boys---what do I do about the friend/video game thing???? Video games are only played on Friday/Saturday, unless a friend comes over, then I normally allow 45 minutes, but it is NEVER enough for them. They are like lost little creatures when it's time to turn off the games. I understand that it's winter and when the weather IS nice they are good about playing outside. If anybody has any hints or strategies I would love to hear it.

Welcome New Year!!

Even though I don't have pictures to post right now (computer is DEAD!!). I was in the mood to say a quick hello. Hello!! Chad spent from 2am to 7am on New Years trying to fix our computer to no avail. So I am typing this from my new netbook---love it love it love it. Chad will have to work his magic to get our pictures from the hard drive--I'm not stressed about it right now. I just love my new little toy. Cam likes that I can be upstairs checking email instead of "always in the basement".

We had a magnificent Christmas!! Nice and quiet. Chad had the entire week after Christmas off of work. I totally thought I would be sick of him, but we really do get along well and I hated seeing him off on the 4th. Believe me, so did the boys. The three of them played and played the entire break. We did one activity every day--which was perfect. Then the three boys disappeared into the basement for hour upon hour of video games---meh-it was Christmas. Although, they got daily reminders that once school started up again they would only be able to play video games Friday after school and Saturdays. Which is where the three of them are at this moment. Coming from a fam of all girls I am still mystified by the video game thing, but it definitely has its good points.

January and February are normally my most disliked months. Big time!!! But it is nice to have my mind distracted with preparations for little Abby Kate. This little fam is so stinkin' excited to have her come. Although I still get a little nauseous when I see another newborn---the thoughts of everything that comes with a newborn makes me a bit sick. Hopefully time and Zoloft at 34 weeks will help with that. hahaha!! I have been making hair klippies like crazy---matching all of her cutsie little outfits. The other night I couldn't sleep and I stumbled on organza flowers on Etsy. So I googled the instructions and yes, we have a new obsession. Oh, they are fun and so pretty. Although there are little bits of organza all over my house and I have burned my thumb more times that I can count.

Chad gave me the complete Ally MacBeal collection. I am enjoying it so much. The series started my first year at Weber State and all of my roommates loved it. We all made sure to be home at 8:00 on Mondays to watch. Such good memories. Seriously great memories. At the time I thought it was kind of naughty, but it really is tame in comparison to todays standards. Not really a good thing.

So my little fam is starting 2010 off well. The boys are happy, and I am busy with Ally MacBeal, making hair accessories, making an embroidered receiving blanket, piecing a baby quilt, designing and making birth announcements, getting a nursery ready. That should seem overwhelming, but it's actually "Kami Nirvana". And I wonder why I don't get much sleep sometimes.