summer craziness and potty training days....

Seriously, I'm exhausted and I need to vent.

Potty training is the worst!

Boys, ugh! stand up or sit? Use the real potty or a baby potty? This time a whole new

approach for Mace: the big potty and sitting! (Usually baby potty)

But sadly today, Mace is 0 pees for 3 on the floor. No big potty for him, nope!

I asked him every 5 min over and over and over and ovvvvver.

He went outside and felt the wind (he's buck with just Diego undies) and

then he yelled to me, "mom, I got to gooooo...."

too late

as peep trickled to a puddle on the sidewalk.

ohhh sigh,

Then I have Jake and Aus fighting over the new lawnmower box.

(remember ours got stolen)

So we bought a new lawnmower and the boys were out in the yard fighting over the box.

I just finished cleaning the 4 bathrooms, did 5 loads of laundry (seriously how do I have sooo much more laundry in the summer!) did the dishes, cleaned the family room and vacuumed the house in it's entirety.

(and I know I will do it all over again in 5 min....)

I'm exhausted.

Summer is tiring.

and you know I love summer but I also need a little mom break. Maybe just hang with the girls

at lunch or shop at the mall for one quiet hour by myself like I did in the winter....

Quiet, peace, no noise.

Meanwhile, I am off to Scout pack meeting and Mace is crying cuz he has peeps on his legs

and Jake is crying cuz his box is ripped and all I hear is my name over and over, "mom, mom, mom, MOM!"

But today was still somewhat lovely because today they had games and prizes at the Secret Pool.

Yes the Secret Pool. ahhhh nice.

Don't know why they hosted a party but they did.

Kids won hats, t-shirts, candy, and prizes. They were in heaven,

and us mom's loved the break cuz the kids were happily entertained.

But guess what?! They had a raffle with a grand prize-

we all put our names in, us mom's 18 and over,

So the girl stood, picked a name and

she announced,

"the winner is......"

Tawny Stott! Wahoo

I cheered, my sis's cheered and I won

a Beach Canopy Cabana, 4 lip glosses, 2 swedish fish bags, and sunscreen for my face.

Not bad eh!

So summertime is the best, but honestly much more demanding on my time.

Mom time.

Kids need me, I need to drive or to cook or to clean or to dress or entertain....

And I am simply exhausted and wish I could just sit down and watch my 5 episodes of the Bachelor (not lovin' Jillian though. and Wes is a jerk!) or

maybe watch Jon and Kate try to reconcile their 10 years of marriage. sad!

I just want to veg and not worry about a thing.

I hope all ya'll mom's can relate to me cuz I need some mama support!

AND I will leave with a few things, well crafty things and I am SO NOT crafty. at all.

While Ry and the kids were away, I shut down the blog, turned off t.v's and just got a few projects done. Things I could never ever do when I am a mother to 4 kids especially on our summer schedule.

So thanks for listening to me rant and vent

I seriously feel so much better. seriously (and yes, I do like that word.)

The boys wall.....I painted their letters to match the stars and papers I picked out. Ry wants no paint yet, so I got creative and put some color up on the wall!

My way.

I am switching their colors to green, yellow and brown.

Ashlyn's wall. We did paint her room PINK b/c she got away with the no paint one year rule b/c she is the only girl. But anyway, I didn't do much but add color to her picture frames. I added color paper to her pics and flowers.

It's not that baby pink in real life...

and I added little flowers too.


Don't really know why I made this pic of Ash, I stayed up real late one night b/c I discovered a basement window O P E N and I was home alone for 4 nights....

I was only a LITTLE (okay a lot) afraid. I barricaded all the doors and looked in every dark closet in the house. (with a knife and cell phone! AND don't tell me you haven't done the same?!)

Then I watched Bride Wars till 2:00 a.m. and made this pic for Ash's room. Like I said, it was great to do something totally out of the ordinary!














Haven't quite finished her blessing dress wall.....looking for a big white star....

In our bedroom I bought window treatments, hallelujah cuz the sun was wakin' us up bright and early. (not quite properly hung..just with tacks so far.....)

And yes we have shutters for the windows, but we have box windows above them. Annoying!

Then I finally started decorating our bathroom with a frame, plant and candlestick. Easy stuff, nothing to fancy. But I enjoy it.

Now off to the kids, we have sleepovers with the cuz's,

here we go again.

But I am lovin' it most of the time... right mom's??

Oh

and please, please

wish me

good luck with

Mace's potty training....

pray

for no more

pee pee puddles

and misses!

straight in the hole!

(yeah right...ha!)