Today's log

Well, today was the first full day Brian went off to work since my tooth trouble started, Saturday he was home before I woke back up from the couple hours I got with the aide of painkillers, Sunday was his scheduled day off and Monday he took off to get me to the dentist. I took today to get caught up on the laundry I've neglected over the weekend, which was about 5 loads, and the little housework I wasn't on top of, which wasn't a big deal because I normally stay on top of it. I also got around to vaccuming upstairs and sorted through the kids' clothes so now I can find what I need when I go to their closet. All I have left to do is sweep and mop downstairs, which I purposly saved until after dinner because I wanted to have all of the days dirt to clean at once, and it's easier to do after everyone is settled with a full belly. I also was able to squeeze in a nap because I got all of the kids to take one, Murphy had his usual nap, Rhayne got in trouble for an attitude, and I've decided to start really working on Brian's name writing since I've finally made up my mind about waiting until next year to get him into kindergarden-I really don't think he's ready for it now. He is to take 30 minutes after lunch to really TRY to write it out, if he does good trying he gets to go upstairs and play with his legos, which he is only allowed to play with when Murphy is sleeping, or if he doesn't want to apply himself, he has to take a nap. He opted for doing a great job for the first ten than giving up and scribbling for the next 20, so a nap he got. I know he has it in him, he just doesn't want to apply himself, and since he doesn't want to apply himself, I'm not going to reward him for a job well done! I hope I'm doing the right thing-I've been working with him since May with this, and he just wants to be hardheaded, now he has a bit of structure with it, so hopefully it will help. Tomorrows another day and I really am rooting for him to at least try as hard as he can. I'm not asking for perfection by any means, just for the best I know he can do. He is great with follow the number things, and that isn't much diffrent than tracing then doing it on your own is it? After nap time, I started dinner and Josh came in with a pizzone.....and attempted to eat it in front of my kids when dinner was being cooked! No, I wasn't having that so we told him to go somewhere where he could eat it away from them, he got huffy-which I don't unerstand, this is OUR house and WE pay the bills we are just letting him stay here to get back on his feet out of the kindness of our hearts, he should be able to respect our home. He knows that the kids love pizza and if they see someone eating something that they really like they won't eat their dinner...I don't understand where he gets off getting pissed off at us. I promise this, when he has children that are about my kids' age, I'll be headed over to his house with a pizza in hand around dinner time that I will promptly eat in front of them, just to prove the point. I really probably won't do this, but it was really asenine of him to do something like that. Well, I suppose I'm relaxed enough to get the kitchen cleaned up from after dinner now. Just wanted to vent a bit.