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Lauren
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Aug 20, 2009 06:53PM
is it bad that i am a little jealous of the rain?
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I just checked the weather network and there is a tornado watch for Tweed and Stirling. So i should probably turn the computer off. It seems a wise idea. You should see the freakin rain though. The road is like a river. A shallow one, but we are at the bottom of a hill, so it's kind of pooling and swirling in front of the house. My recycling is at the end of the driveway, I should probably go get it, but I don't want to go out there. The tree in front of our house is suddenly making me nervous because the wind is whipping the shit out of it. Kurt hopes if it falls, its on the van. Me too. I don't like the van as much as the house.
Okay, going now.
have fun with your battle with nature. i hope that if the tree falls its on your recycling so it doesn't travel far away.
We only got hot and humid weather and the threat of a storm that had no oomph. I'm so disappointed.
It didn't amount to much here, lots of thunder and lightning and rain all night but nothing else. My recycling is still sitting neatly at the curb.
I have been bad and not totalling or adding word counts. Silly lazy girl.yesterday 1306 words. Not a lot done. I edited the first part of a new piece because it's not flowing right for me. I think I've got it now. I didn't count the words there because i ended up with less than I started with.
ANyway, hope to write and edit today again. Ambitious.
Total 2009= 272,964 words.
Oh here sparky. A piece of pompous ass just for you. No, I'm not saying where I got it. Just eat it. Good boy.
I think that piece of pompous gave hims gas- it was so full of hot air, he can't hardly digest it. Just look at the water broil with all that air.
Dear Renee,do you want to know when it's time to re-paint your kids rooms? No? Well, DEAL WITH IT.
anyway when your child starts wearing skinny jeans and converse and their room is still pink with purple tinker bell rimming you know it's tome to re-paint.
My kids have to earn their room changes. See that back field over there? get to weeding and maybe we'll talk when it's done.
lol wow I feel spoiled I get 100$ a month for doing my chores which means I recently got a 20$ raise
My kids get the clothes on their backs and the food in their bellies. They have tons of toys and electronic crap laying around. I think allowances can wait for a while. Courtney receives $5 for each day she helps with the daycare kids. So that's $25/week. SOmetimes she chooses not to help and that's fine too.Room changes? Well I'm not allowed doing that again for a while.
lolOMG I JUST PULLLED AN ANT OUT OF MY PANTS!! IT BIT ME ON THE BUTT!!
Well, at least it's out now...better out than in I always say.
lol now I'm vaccuming my room and then it's off to trying to pull of my wall paper again
MY MOTHER NEEDS TO CALL THE DAMN EXTERMINATOR! IMEAN WHAT IS SHE WAITING FOR?? I WEAR SHE'S GOING T O WAIT UNTIL THEY EAT OUR FAMILY!!
Daisy, 100 bucks amonth? what are you doing for chores? My kids have job charts in the house and work out on the farm too. THey might make $100 during harvest, but monthly the best they could do would be around 25. Of course, there are 5 of them and we're poor- so... that has a hand in things.
it's an ant, daisy. Squish it already and move on. Now if you see one that might eat your hampster for lunch- then you can worry.
When my kids actually start doing their chores without nagging, I'll consider allowances. They don't like to do them until I'm actually forcing them to do it. I mean literally taking their hands and picking up toys and washing dishes, like they were puppets. They laugh every time, but it's awful.
oh and I'm working the fair so at the end of this week i'll have my 100$ form mom and 150$ form fair work. Yeah taht does have a hand in things, my mom only has two kids and that me and Kari who gets a penny and she's happy as a clam. On sunday I clean the house and take out the trash, on Monday I bring the trash in, on tuesday I empty the dishwasher, on Wednesday I clean the hamsters' cage if I have it and Tidy my sister's room and vacuum my room, on Thurday I tell my mommy what I want to eat for the week do laundry and tidy the living and dining room, on Friday I empty the dishwasher, and on Saturday I do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
Wendy wrote: "it's an ant, daisy. Squish it already and move on. Now if you see one that might eat your hampster for lunch- then you can worry."When I got to work today a spider that size was waiting for me in the zink! As big as the palm on my hand, and sort of meaty-looking! It took me a lot of courage to deal with that (and a lot of paper too).
I've got magnetic dry erase boards that I made last year. THey've got their list of crap to do on one side. If they do their jobs, they move the little magnets over one space. If they cheat- they lose it all for the day- whether they've done the rest or not. So they move their little marks over going down the line and they get paid for what they did. A whole week is worth a dollar a day- IF they do every single thing. I subtract a dime for each unfinished job. SO they usually get more like 3-5 dollars a week.THis is their list:
Morning:
Get dressed
Brush and floss teeth
Brush hair
Put brushes & toothpaste away
Pick up clothes
make bed
clear breakfast dishes
say prayers
Afternoon:
Snack and clean up
clean desk area
do homework
piano practice 15 min
Math times attack practice
read 20 min
write in journal
put away personal laundry
do daily job
room check
Daily job: (this rotates each week to something different)
clean piano room
empty dishwasher
Weekly Job: (also rotates weekly)
change bed sheets
vaccume bedroom
put away laundry
shake out mats
Night:
clear dinner plates
brush and floss teeth
read
school stuff ready
say prayers
THis is all what they do year round- but in the summer, they also go out with me to work on the farm for an hour a day and up to 5 hours on weekends.
If they don't do it all, then they lose money. It takes them about an hour and a half after school to do all their stuff and homework too. So if they hustle- it's not so bad- but if they are puttering along- it can take all day.
I had to move to the magnetic board because I wasn't consistant enough to put up a new job chart on time. So this way they just move the things over and we reset it each week.
Teresa wrote: "Wendy wrote: "it's an ant, daisy. Squish it already and move on. Now if you see one that might eat your hampster for lunch- then you can worry."When I got to work today a spider that size was wait..."
was it a tarantula? good heck- even I would freak a bit if it was THAT big!
lol well that's good I have way less chores than them though...I feel happy now oh and I foundd an effective way to get that stupid wall paper off the wall
I'll try that. Do you have the same expectations of the smaller kids than the older? Kennedy is only 5, so the things Court is able to do are different than Kennedy. Also, its hard because at 5, court and Logan had little to do beyond, getting dressed, brushing teeth and making beds, is it fair to expect more from Kennedy? Then the older two whine if I don't and I go through the explanation again.Logan is only here part of the time, he lives with his mom. So, then he doesn't get the same as the other two because he doesn't do as much. He's not here to do it. How would I work that? See why I nixed the allowance idea?
Wendy wrote: "Teresa wrote: "Wendy wrote: "it's an ant, daisy. Squish it already and move on. Now if you see one that might eat your hampster for lunch- then you can worry."When I got to work today a spider th..."
My work mate told me it was a fruit spider, whatever that is! We don't usually have them here as Sweden's too cold for their liking, but with so many people importing stuff from overseas, we get all sort of critters of alarming sizes.
I confess to the murder of this one, but it was either him or me, and I had work to do!
Wendy wrote: "Teresa wrote: "Wendy wrote: "it's an ant, daisy. Squish it already and move on. Now if you see one that might eat your hampster for lunch- then you can worry."When I got to work today a spider th..."
I hate buigs, I dispise bugs, however if they are venomous i do enjoy learning about them, but it freaks me out even more and so then when I get bitten or stung or anything I freak my parents should make me stop watching animal planet
Yep, my 5 year old has the same chart. She just gets paid less because she hardly ever does it all. She has to be in the "mood" so usually she gets like a buck while everyone else gets 3-5 so they are happy and she is happy because she still got a whole entire buck! woo hoo!
the kids made the baby (now 2 years) a chart:eat
sleep
poop
play
eat
sleep
poop
That's true, but our darling diva knows the difference in money. She knows 'paper money' is better and a toonie is more than a loonie or a quarter. So I'd have to tell the other two not to tell her they got more.
GreenDaisy BlackStem wrote: "Wendy wrote: "Teresa wrote: "Wendy wrote: "it's an ant, daisy. Squish it already and move on. Now if you see one that might eat your hampster for lunch- then you can worry."When I got to work toda..."
Maybe you could be on a mamals-only diet for a while until you feel less freaked? That's what I do myself, I spent most of my morning trying to focus on cute bunny rabbits and kittens instead of squished spiders.
lol I said I was going to pay my sister to baby sit george but now whenever I leave George alone she pays me
I find anything with more than the normal number of limbs to be inherently fascinating. Ants, bees, wasps, termites (cultures); spiders and mantids (habits); centipedes (poisone).The we get into the marine ones - squid, octopi (Renee has a fine example here), jellyfish...
The list is endless. Show me something weird, preferrably poisonous, and while you all run out of the building screaming, I'll be within a foot of it, watching, muttering to myself, making friends with it...
Renee wrote: "That's true, but our darling diva knows the difference in money. She knows 'paper money' is better and a toonie is more than a loonie or a quarter. So I'd have to tell the other two not to tell her..."I figure if she's old enough to care that she got less, then she's old enough to do her chores and get more. "Love and Logic" and all that.
We sometimes go over it:
"who decided to not do her chores?"
"me."
"then who chose to not get more money?"
*way long pause* "me"
that's right! next week you can choose to do more and get more money.
Paul wrote: "I find anything with more than the normal number of limbs to be inherently fascinating. Ants, bees, wasps, termites (cultures); spiders and mantids (habits); centipedes (poisone).The we get into ..."
one time me and my friend tried to make a bee swim...it died (we were in second grade)
Wendy,Here's how that conversation would go with Kennedy;
"Who didn't do their chores?"
"What?"
"Who didn't do their chores?"
"But I don't want to do that I wanted to do this (insert some ridiculous thing she cannot do) and then Courtney pushed me and she didn't say sorry and I wanted the white barbie and Logan cut her hair and daddy told me to stop screaming but my toe hurt and I wanted a bandaid and he wouldn't get it and I don't want to pick up those toys. WAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"
"Here's five bucks if you shut up."
See? won't work.
Yes, she is way too smart. Her father is at a loss having only dealt with boys before her and Court. He used to say Courtney was terrible, too dramatic, and all that. Now, he sees Courtney wasn't really so bad. Kennedy is DRAMA not just drama. If she has a complaint it's not just 'Courtney turned my movie off,' it'a an entire list of what led to this point that she's going over the deepend over a movie. Daddy is almost always blamed somewhere in it. She never blames her mama though. Very smart girl
The hissy fit thing doesn't fly with me. I have hooks on the doors. It would go like:And then..and then..I wanna..I wanna...Waaa-uph!
*loses breath as she is slung over the shoulder and dropped onto her bed for a nice long time out.*
Wanna scream honey? go right ahead and have fun. Let me know when you're done.
*cranks radio up*
I used to worry about fits, but after having the first 3 in 30 months, I decided I didn't want to listen to whiners. I pretend I can't hear it and say huh? I can't understand whiny language; can you try again?
THey still try to tattle, but they have to sing their tattles and fights with each other. It's much easier to listen to "she took my lego" when it's to the tune of Beetoven's Fifth.
We all do what we have to survive. I can't take the tantrums. It makes me nuts. I refuse to listen or watch. TO survive here, we all have to work, we all have to help. No slackin or whining.
My favorite saying for little ones: You get what you get and you don't throw a fit.
THat's the only response they get to the "I wanted the pink cup... waaa."
Kind of like when they ask "what's for dinner" the answer is always "pickled pig's feet" because they have to eat whatever it is so no pickiness allowed.
wendy if I were your daugter I'd e dead I am possibly the pickiest person in the world
THey decided they liked to eat and be alive better than they liked being dead and picky.
No pickiness at dinner here either. There are certain things I don't make for them because I know they really hate it, that's fine. But what I serve is what you eat or you go hungry. The snack around 6 or 7pm is a good motivator. It's like they cannot go without that little snack. It's usually junk food which is what mommy gets not them. So if they want that they finish dinner without whining.I've started the zero tolerance with tattling and whining. With more than just the two girls in the house now, I can't handle it. I agree wendy, it gets real old real fast. I don't have locks on their doors, I'll have to fix that. Often they get sent to their room and they run out a hundred times before mommy snaps, then they stay. They're not sure how far I'll go at that point so they don't push it any further. If Mom starts cursing like a sailor and yelling really loud, they know they've crossed that line of no return.
Kurt hears that daily so it doesn't scare him anymore.
I was an only child for the first seven years of my life so my parents had a pass on most of the whining
um... im an only child, i don't think i was much of a whiner, i was a bit defiant, and i would question things and require logical explinations. when i was two, i think, my parents tried to get me to give up my bottle, they told me it wasn't good for me and i told them i didn't believe them, that i wanted a professional opinion. so they took me to the doctor and the doctor said i was too old, so i went home grabbed all my bottles and threw them away exclaiming, "trash it." apparently trash it was my favorite phrase and i used to love to throw things away, yeah i lost that trait becoming an adult.
It's much easier to tolerate with one. Courtney seemed so much easier but until Kennedy she had no one, except Logan on the weekends. Now she's got the 10 going on 30 attitude. I could really do some serious damage when she gets that tone of voice with that look in her eyes that's telling me I know nothing. Grrr!! I have told my girls as well as my nieces (who there are three of 11, 10, and 8) 'there is only room for one bitch in this house and you are looking at her. So lose the attitude.'
Kennedy tells people this now, so I regret that statement sometimes. "My mom is the only bitch in our house." Nice.
lol my mom's rule about pickiness is now 'feed yourslef or starve'
I told Kennedy that papa took them to the dump by accident. She was mad at him for a while but got over it. He didn't know i told her that until later. It turned out okay. Courtney threw her own out. There was one with a bug in it, I don't remember how it happened, but anyway, she hated and still hates bugs. I said bugs get in them all the time and get stuck because of the nipples. (stupid explanation but she bought it) She was horrified and tossed all of them. The cup she loved because the opening in the lid was too small for bugs to get in.
Renee wrote: "It's much easier to tolerate with one. Courtney seemed so much easier but until Kennedy she had no one, except Logan on the weekends. Now she's got the 10 going on 30 attitude. I could really do so..."My cousin used to call me booger and one day when she was flirting with a boy, I saw her at the grocery store (I was four) so I ran up and screamed "BOOGER" she never called me that again
thats awesome.yeah in terms of handling kids, i would rather have 30 than 2. i feel like you have a license to be more stern or mean when there are a lot of them.
Lauren wrote: "thats awesome.yeah in terms of handling kids, i would rather have 30 than 2. i feel like you have a license to be more stern or mean when there are a lot of them."
but if they aren't yours you can't
my b is on the fritz again
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