Cats & Dogs

Cats & Dogs get along better than my 2 kids today. Usually they get along fairly well. Usually. But today is far from usual.

Arrrrrrrrgh! I've. had. it. Even resorted to crying. Me, not them. Actually, all of us. Mmm hmmm - it's that bad. If Daddy knew what had been going on around here today, he might just want to work late. Ha!

One of them is extremely selfish. Especially toward his brother. Sweet as pie toward the rest of the world. I keep telling him what a very undesirable character trait that selfishness is in a person. I need to dig out some character building books off of the shelf. And the Young Peacemaker series. http://www.peacemaker.net/ Haven't read it yet. Really? Umm, yeah, by the very un-peaceful status of our house today, that's a no-brainer. I bought it years ago at a convention ... you mean it's not going to seep into them by osmosis? We actually have to sit down and work at it? What a novel idea. I think I'll try it. Maybe I'll even learn a thing or two myself.

So, my attempt at cleaning has come to a screeching halt. I'd even rather be cleaning that than dealing with this goop. It's like a food chain: rather blog than clean, rather clean than deal with children's conflict, rather deal with children's conflict than .... hmmm .... nothing coming to mind as to what could be worse than that, though I know there has to be something.

No wonder this place always looks like a pig stye. Siiiiiiiiigh.

And I've decided that their boredom = we'll start school on Monday ....... oh, stink. Buh bye summer. It's sure been nice knowin' ya. Well, you know ... 'cept today.

UPDATE: When I just now saw that RV was calling on the phone, I answered and asked "is this my earthly savior?" Many-a-time when PUp was a colicky infant RV would rescue the day by coming home and sending me out for a sanity break. He replied by saying he "figured it was a bad day when the kids called him earlier and said they had been banished to the yard." That's not so bad is it? RV has told me that he & his 4 siblings spent many-a-summer outside (isn't his mom smart? they had a tiny little house and 5 rambunctious kids just wasn't gonna cut it). RV turned out ok. I suppose mine will as well. Kids, I don't know what's wrong with these kids today. Don't mind me while I break out in song ....... it's either that, or, you know, cry. Oh, that was fun - putting all those commas in one little sentence fragment. Yep, I'm losing it. ;-)