Daily insanity at the Scotts.

My kids are trying to stop napping. And they aren’t following the “Hour of Quiet Time” very well either. This is where I lose the last bit of sanity I possess!

On a Tuesday morning.

Got a replacement drivers license since I lost mine. Confession: I lied on my weight.

I hate office supply stores.

Soooo glad I filled the gas tank up yesterday! Gas was $.30 higher this morning! Yikes!! I saved myself from paying an extra $7.20.

Can’t wait to pick up my daughter from her first sleepover. I was a wreck about it….even though she was fine and it WAS only at my sister’s house!

I’m tired of paperwork.

I get irritated when people are late for appointments.

Wow that was a depressing post….hmm……The sun is shining and the boys are in a great mood….hopefully we’ll get to the park later! (There, that’s better!)

Like you just don’t care. If you wanna party let me hear you yell, ‘Cause we’ve got it goin’ on!

(Yeah, y’all know you like that song!)

Okay, so I finally decided to post this, and it’s pretty exciting. So act like you are excited even if you aren’t!

EM IS TALKING!!! Ok….well not constantly, but if he is in a good mood and calm and uses a lot of effort, he can say: mama AND dada!

Yes, he’s made sound in the past, and plenty of people like to tell me they heard him talk. Well I’ve never gone for it, because it has JUST BEEN NOISE. There’s a big difference. I’m never trying to be negative about it, but I have learned to be realistic. I could explain it, but that would take an hour. The point is: THIS is finally talking. And as we’ve waited an extra 2 years past when most parents hear their kids say these two words, we’re pretty much acting like fools everytime we hear them!

I have my theory’s on why we are having this improvement….we’ll just have to wait and see if what we are doing keeps working.

Check THIS site out. We’re planning on moving here soon, and unless I get my #1 option of living out towards the country, I’m going for #2 and I want to live smack in the middle of everything so I rarely use my car. Of course, the higher the gas prices get, the more I think I like #2. I’m totally typing in every new address we visit on this website!

Need some help for spring cleaning? Here’s some things that always get me motivated.

*I think this is a regular for most people: music. Blast something upbeat you can sing with and I can get moving! Of course, we tend to sometimes get distracted and just start dancing instead of cleaning, lol.

*Being angry. While I don’t promote purposely being angry, whenever I am I try to find something to scrub. It works it out! Of course, I have 3 kids that like to fight, so you would think my house would be sparkly clean. ha ha!

*Flowers. Of course, nice weather and open windows helps just about everyone. Flowers help me even more! So if I can’t find any to pick and bring in from outside, I go grab a cheap bouquet at the store. $5 worth of flowers is worth getting my kitchen wiped down and moped! lol.

*Something new to clean WITH. Maybe I’m weird. But I go buy a new $1 sponge or mix up a new citrus smelling cleanser, and Voila, I’m all excited to get using it!

*If all else fails, I invite someone new over. You never want their first look at your house to be the everyday clutter, right?! I can clean like nobody’s business when I have company coming!

My kids also get into helping too when you make it fun. I spray down the windows, hand them towels and walk away. They giggle and play, and wipe for a good 10 minutes. And since I use non-toxic stuff, I don’t have to worry about them being near it!

What are your tried and true spring cleaning motivators?

Is SEVEN YEARS OLD today! Well actually, he still has about 20 minutes left! Trust me.

What does the boy want for his birthday? Well being the simple easy going kid that Jack is he didn’t even talk about it, let alone nag us to death like Miss Abby did for months!! lol. Nor did he request anything specific. In fact, yesterday I was a little worried he was clueless and asked him if he knew the next day was his birthday. He responded with a calm and cool, “Yeah mom, I know.” Then didn’t say another word until last night as we were putting him in bed. He said to Nic, “Uh, there ARE going to be presents in the morning, right?” ROFL!

So this morning he woke up and of course Nic had to kick me out of bed to come watch because Jack couldn’t wait. Luckily, we hit the jackpot when he opened some Ironman toys and the wooden treasure chest we found for him. (I think Nic actually considered keeping the chest for himself. Childhood dream I guess. lol) Then, of course, he lost the key within a few short hours and now the chest is locked shut. Surprise, surprise.

So his plan was to spend the day in his pj’s and then hit up Sammie’s Pizza Buffet for dinner. Yeah, that didn’t work out so well. I finally convinced him to get dressed at about 1 pm. We needed a few things from the store and he compromised if we could go to Giant Eagle so he could hang in the play area for awhile. Alright. Then he told me to take my time, ha ha! Then we went to go to Sammie’s for dinner to find *gasp* that they had gone OUT OF BUSINESS! Are you kidding me?! That was a total buzzkill for poor Jack. After pulling him out of his depression, he decided on some cheese pizza at California Pizza Kitchen. We ate there, he was blessed with Legos from Aunt Lizzie and Uncle Mike, then he ran like a wild banchee for awhile in the mall play area. We picked up some Cinnabuns in place of a birthday cake (I love my kids!) and headed home. He then climbed a tree for awhile, came in for some watermelon and now we’re just hangin and waitin for Dad to get home. (I swear, someday I am going to go nuts on his office for keeping him so late!)

And if you have no idea what the title means, you must not have known Jack when he was 3. The kid has always been a riot! Love you Jack!

I have so much going on inside my head I am starting to wonder if it could really explode. Which would be a nasty big mess. There’s so much in there I can’t even think straight about one thing at a time, which is starting to give me a massive headache.

My daughter is a WAY better Tracy then Nicki Blonsky or Ricki Lake.

You know, just in case you didn’t know that already! Girlfriend can belt it!

When I shove the kids outside to play, they don’t play all the “typical” outdoor games, they gather sticks and stones and build fires because they are playing Little House on the Prairie!

There are great toys all over the house, but Abigail finds an empty box going out to the recycling and she begs to have it, then builds a dollhouse. Even though she HAS a dollhouse sitting right next to her. Then Jackson gets upset that he doesn’t have a box! lol

We love sitting around in our pj’s all day watching old movies like The Sound of Music instead of going to playgroups!

Abigail and Emery would rather have veggie bologna instead of Oscar Mayer!

I love us!

Ok you other sahm’s out there should feel me on this one.

My husband has been at work for 11 hours now. That would be all fine and dandy if that was the original plan. But no, he was only supposed to work 8 hours today. Of course, this is not his doing, he planned on being home at 6:30. I even had his dinner ready. Sometimes I think he does not work with anyone else who has a wife and kids at home or maybe they would hurry their butts up so he could leave! (He has to stay and wait until they are done.) If he made mad money maybe I would shut my mouth about it. If I didn’t unexpectedly get stuck home with 3 children for 11 1/2 hours maybe I wouldn’t be so grouchy! I tell him that sometimes it’s a wonder I’m not a drunk! lol.