Good morning, hyenas!
So far my morning is... OK. We'll see how the day goes.
It started off with DS7 crawling into bed with DS3 and me. These two boys cannot lay in the same bed and sleep, or even be still or be quiet, so of course they started in with the tickling and then kicking and slapping. (OK, I needed to be up in 40 minutes anyway, but I really wanted more sleep!)
So I told DS7 to go get dressed. He ignored me, they calmed down for a minute, then started in again. So I sat up and looked him right in the eyes (which is not that easy when I'm just waking up and not wearing my glasses!), told him I wasn't going to ask again, next time I was going to get a timer.
I don't know why, but ever since he was very little, he's been
totally freaked out by the timer! He could not get out of bed fast enough!
He came back all dressed, so I stumbled out of bed and got DS3 dressed, then shooed them downstairs for breakfast. When I got downstairs I noticed DS7 was nowhere to be found, and the TV armoire was open. (I'd closed it last night because they are not suppose to watch TV in the morning unless they are completelly ready for school and there's extra time.)
I called out into the seemingly empty room, "DS7, what are you doing?" The silence was deafening.
So then I said, "DS7, I know you're in here, what do you think you're doing?" I hear a little, "Nothing..."
"Nothing? And what are you supposed to be doing?"
"Sitting at the table, waiting for my breakfast."
"So don't you think you should be doing that?"
He hopped up out of the chair he'd been hiding in and went to the dining room table.
I gave them each a bowl of cereal, and told DS7 that when he was done with it, he was to go upstairs and brush his teeth, get his shoes on, and then begin his reading homework, which he had not done last night. "OK, Mama."
I hoped that would keep him from torturing his brother while I took a quick shower. When I was in the shower DS3 came in playing with some noisy sort of toy, and I kept hearing a THUD THUD THUD every few seconds. THUD THUD THUD... THUD THUD THUD... THUD THUD THUD...
"DS7? What are you doing?"
Silence.
"DS7?"
"What, Mama?"
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing..." GOSH, I really hate it when he says that.
"Come here. Son, I already
know what you're doing, I'm waiting for you to tell me."
"I was just getting ready to brush my teeth."
"No you weren't. Why don't you tell me now what you were really doing?"
"Ummm... That
is what I was doing."
"DS7, what kind of ball was it?"
"Uhhhhh..."
"Never mind. Why aren't your teeth brushed?"
"Well, I was just about to do that, but then you called me in here." (Oh, it's
my fault his teeth aren't brushed!)
"You have 5 minutes to brush your teeth.
Go now."
After that I gave him a lecture about how I was tired of telling him to do something 5 times and he was
still ignoring me. From now on I'm going to ask him once, and if it doesn't get done in the time allotted, it doesn't get done and he'll have to deal with the consequences. I'm trying to make sure he gets ready for school and gets to school on time, that's all. Who am I doing this for, me? "No, for me."
"OK then. I think you better listen."
Things went much better after that. We'll see how long that lasts.
The drop-offs at the two schools went well, and when I went back to DS7's class to do some work for his teacher, there was a sub and they were headed off to a school assembly. So I went for a mocha and now am doing laundry and some dishes.
I got cute Mickey & Friends and Classic Pooh address labels from www.checksinthemail.com They also sell cute Disney & Hello Kitty checks. 
. Add nuts.
Whatever, Im hungry! Even he is starting to notice a change in my body... Well... My fingers, and my feet, and my ummmm girls. 
It's OK Chad's back in action with a 1st last weekend. 
DBF and I are deciding if we want to go to Vegas for the finals in May.
and new shoes! 
