The kids and I had a good day today. While Riley was at school Sam and I visited my mom for a couple of hours and after I picked Riley up from school we all visited my MIL for a little while. While I was there she said she would be glad to keep them for a little while (she felt really good today and the kids seem to cheer her up a great deal) so I scooted home and took a delicious nap!!!! The kids had a blast with Grandma and were both in a great mood when they got home..so was I thanks to a little bit of alone time. :-)
My FIL is coming back for his monthly visit on Friday...our "couch camper". No kidding he literally comes every month almost to the day. I marked my calendar last month and sure enough...exactly one month later he calls to say he will be on his way this weekend. I really shouldn't complain because he doesn't mind spending endless hours outside with the kids and they consider him a big playmate so if anything I get more breaks during the day than I would normally get but DANG!!!!! Even though he entertains the kids it is still the fact that we have a house guest every month for 4-5 days and nights that irritates me so much.
Samuel is going through a stage of getting out of his bed several times during the first hour or so after we lay him down. He gets up saying he wants his light on, then he wants it off, then he wants his fan on, then he wants it off, then he wants his night light on, then he wants it off, he wants his door open, then he wants it closed and every combination of all of those factors you can think of. He even pulled the monster in the closet hoax on us the other night. He used to be our ideal sleeper now he is our little night time staller. Sam did a 180 from ideal to irritating and Riley did the opposite...her bedtime behavior has always been difficult to put it mildly and now you would not ask for an easier going child when it comes to going to bed and going to sleep immediately. The only time she gets up is if Sam slips into her room...he is a little trouble maker up there most nights....little stinker!!!! Jamey is up there right now trying to satisfy him...I hear his asking for specific toys to sleep with and saying that he wants to sleep with his shoes on....he he he....welcome to a little taste of my day with our little man who is trying to state his Independence any way he can. Whew...I am glad it is finally this time of the day when I can chill for a little while.
Jamey threatened to start doing the grocery shopping today. (I wish he would!!!!) He asked what I was going to cook for dinner and I told him I was going to cook cubed steak and whatever else I could find. Then he decides to go on a kick of standing in the pantry for 10 minutes and literally reading every item off to me that he could find...."we have tons of stuff in here......corn, green beans, lima beans...." and he went ON and ON and ON!!!! Then he goes on to tell me that we shouldn't need to buy groceries this weekend at all and that I need to "cook up" all of the vegetables in there. I held my tongue and I cooked what he requested. From the way he was talking our pantry contains half of the inventory of Ingles. He doesn't have a clue what it takes to keep the kitchen stocked and running but I let him rant say his piece. I refrained from telling him that unless I had a cow, pig or chickens running around in the pantry that yes, we would definitely have to buy groceries. We are also out of almost everything else as well...EXCEPT for the 15-20 cans of vegetables that he saw in there. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our grocery expenses are quite high but unfortunately it is a necessity and I don't feel that I buy in excess so when he goes on his little rampages it kind of ticks me off.
Well, that is it for my complaining and explaining.
Good night all!
There is really only one cure for a man who thinks he can do better at grocery shopping...let him go grocery shopping. Seth will spend double what I do at the grocery store. I plan out every meal that I cook breakfast lunch and dinner for 6 days. I also plan snacks, I check bathroom inventory and staple foods, and I estimate how much wine/beer we will drink that week. I do not like making more than 1 trip to the grocery store a week. When Seth goes, he just buys a bunch of stuff that looks good, but he still spends way more than I do!
ReplyDeleteI hope your couch campers visits don't correlate to your time of the month. That would be bad.
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