The Manetta “Plagues”

As I write, I am dealing with a wireless MAC mouse, that has been 90% destroyed by my 16 mo old.  He has disassembled it to the core.  He broke off a piece, and I needed my 12 yr old to fix it, twice, because I couldn’t figure it out.  Anyway, now it doesn’t right click, scroll and many times won’t even left click.  I found an old mouse lying around the house, but it is tangled up with an old cell phone charger and some AV wires, and I had no patience left to untangle them.  IF and when I get desperate I will just plug it in with the other wires tangled around them.

 

SO back to the point of the above title.

I have this problem where I over schedule myself and my kids to the point of emotional meltdown.  I can handle things most of the times, but all my kids are not able to keep up with my “lets go go go-mentality.  My Monday child can.  She is 2nd born, but first girl.  She is my “mini-me”.   Most of you have heard about all of our many trips to the Urgent Care this summer.  The latest being when my “mini-me” slammed her finger in the door, and broke it, and needed 4 stitches to repair the damage under her nail which she also lost, and may never grow back.  Maybe my hurried mentality has negatively now affected her?

I have tried to add another thing to our busy schedules.  I attempted to do a co-op.  I think truly it must have been 50% peer pressure and 50%, my kids really needed help in the area of creative writing.  I HATE writing!  I LOVE To read others writings.  I can type “creatively” if life has something to tell about. But other than that, I can NOT teach it to my kids, and I DONT want to.  So, I sign them up for a writing co-op.  First week, daughter is on pain killers from breaking her finger the night before.  Second week, my kids are exposed to Hand Foot Mouth (Kawasaki) Disease, which 2 or maybe 4 out of the 6 now have.  
I think God is trying to tell me, enough is enough!  STOP adding things to make your lives even crazier!  SO, I did the hardest thing ever, and I quit teaching my 6th-8th grade girls (scouting program) at my old church.  I LOVE teaching that class!  THAT was the hardest age for me, and I just want to be there to help as many kids get through it better than I did!  Meanwhile my son just turned 12, and BOY is he needing me to be “there” for him these days.  What?  Do they just wake up one day and say, “Oops, approaching the teen years now, time to be disobedient and defiant!” THEN, ever since my daughter broke her finger, SHE has been “miss sassy mouth”.  I keep asking her “Where is my daughter, and WHO are you?”  She has a new nickname from me, which is a name of a girl that we don’t really know all that well, where we witnessed her being MEAN to her Mom in public!  We could NOT believe it!  I will never know who ever reads this, but in case somehow this Mom gets to read this, I wouldn’t want to hurt her feelings by saying that girls name.  Meanwhile, I do NOT want any of YOU to think, “Was it MY child?”  No, I do not even know the last name of this girl, but she was in a class that my daughter was taking.

Anyway, so with all my babbling here, my point is, that I feel like my kids need to go back to the basics.  They need to focus on their priorities which are their relationship with God, their families, (mostly certain sibling relationships) and their school work.  I want them to stay committed to the extra-curricular things they have signed up for, and to practice daily.  

Since school has started we have had many distractions.  My sister visited for a week (THANK YOU GOD!).  We went on a short vacation ourselves.  Now my husband is at home on vacation time, which the kids think they need to take the day off from school for.  Then there have been the injuries and sicknesses.  ONCE, there are no outside distractions, my goal for my kids is to work diligently in all those areas I mentioned.  One of my friends suggested that when my oldest son does NOT do his schoolwork in a timely, non-complaining matter, then ALL privlileges get taken away, until he can change that attitude.  Also, when my kids think they can fight with each other, over and over, about nothing, they too will have dire consequences which include computer time, game time and playing with friends.  NOT until they can get along with each other, do they ever need to play with their friends!  

Meanwhile, as we try to cut down our crazy schedule, I feel much guilt when we don’t get “around” to doing certain things.  Not only school & chores, but devotions.  I get SO upset when it is bedtime and I am too tired (even though I am going to stay up for the next 6 hours myself) to do devotions with my kids.  I have a variety of awesome devotions for kids.  I just NEED to do it!

Well, I guess this blog is my way of venting, thinking and probably just listening to myself “speak”.  I never (obviously) worry about spelling, grammar and language skills.  I am too tired to anywayz.

I guess in a way, its kind of like a diary or journal.  

 

Here’s to another page added to my blah blah blah blog.