Why is it?

Why is it when a parent leaves for an extended period of time... the rest of the house falls to pieces?
I mean really! My house has gone to ruins since Hubby left! well the parts where my kids live in the house at least. I could blame it on the fact that we've all been sick for the last 10 days or so... but I'd be lying. I mean yeah, being sick didn't help the situation.. but the house was turning into a episode of "Hoarders" for a few weeks before this illness hit.
I'm being honest. I am definitely not related to Suzy or anyone in the Homemaker family.. Well unless you include my Military Aunt... But that's the military rather than anything else. (I think.... maybe she is an orderly person anyways and the Air Force just kinda strengthened this in her)
I couldn't clean my way out of a paper bag. I hate cleaning, i hate picking up... I'd rather not do anything of the sort if i can avoid it.

So here I am, announcing to the world ... that My room (which doubles as a TV room) the area where our computer sits and the girls' room look like a tornado has torn through it on a daily basis.

I would totally clean it up and have attempted to do so on a daily basis.... but then.. i have children. Many of them (more than 2 is considered MANY! so there!) and they don't seem to understand the concept of "PUT IT AWAY"
So yeah I'm sitting here surrounded by everything we own in a total and complete state of perpetual untidiness..

ah yes... I love the smell of clutter in the morning...... *GAG*

A Great Day Out

Today was a GREAT day!
As i mentioned in my earlier post we went skating then sledding today with some friends! Lala Bear Has never really been on skates before so this was a new experience for her. She of course fell on her bum many times, but over all had a GREAT time! And she did really well considering this was the first time. She was off "shimmying" on her own with in 10 minutes of being at the rink. The air was crisp and clean, the girls had lots of fun. Now, Mr. Chubbs on the other hand, fell asleep in the car on the way to the rink and so did not participate... My MIL took him home for me so he could rest. The poor boy was just totally wrecked and needed his sleep. So there i was with just my girls and we were having a grand time! It was back to how it was a few years ago when it was just the girls.... and Mr. Chubbs hadn't been born yet. It was nice to just be with my girls. It's something i don't get to do alot anymore. Mr. Chubbs takes up a lot of my time, even now at 16 months old. We had a great time. Then about an hour later we decided that we had had enough of skating. Well Lala Bear and her friend Sophia decided they had enough of skating, Bug on the other hand wanted to stay all day. I had to promise her that i would bring her back to the rink again this coming week... I'm not sure how I'll manage to do that quite yet.. it's a busy week!
So We all piled into our cars and Kim and Sophia (along with Bug and Lala Bear ) drove to our house for SLEDDING! woohoo!
I had to wrangle our puppy, Belle first though. After her muzzle and leash were on, she was allowed to join out party outside. If you've been reading my blog, you know that I'm trying to calm our 6 month old pup down a little but teaching her that it's not OK to jump up on and bite anyone. I saw that she was being good so i took off the leash. The later took of the muzzle. Ah... yeah not such a great idea as she ran down our sledding hill and promptly grabbed little Sophia's arm and dragged her down the hill still on the sled.  Oh boy! I was slightly embarrassed by her bad behaviour.
Regardless, we had a great time and the girls were soaked through their snow pants and jackets... After about an hour of hanging out on the hill with Kim and Sophia, we decided it was til to call it a day. We made plans to meet up tomorrow if we weren't busy and said goodbye.

We all went inside and just hung out til dinner, which was tomato soup with macaroni noddles in it.. yummy!
Now after the little ones have their bath (the little ones being Lala Bear and Mr. Chubbs) we are now about to go play Lego Harry Potter on the PS3.

Goodnight Blogging World, Sleep tight.

A Somewhat Successful Night...

So I survived my first night alone with the kids. This in itself is an oxymoron. You aren't really alone if your with your kids, right? OH so wrong. You could be in a room full of people and still be alone. This was me last night.
I had all 3 kids with me, my in laws down stairs and I was still alone. Now I'm not actually trying to be negitive or depressing. It's just fact. SO i had gotten Mr. Chubbs down at 7pm, thinking "YES! an evening to myself" and the girls and I watched the special Glee that was on after the Super Bowl (Way to go PACKERS!) Then i sent them off to bed. although LalaBear seemed to have issue with the actual "go to bed now" part.
I sit down to watch something on tv, to relax, chill be ME for once. And low and behold, my wonderful "quiet evening" is shattered by the desperate cry of none other than.... Mr. Chubbs. Ah yes. The reluctant sleeper. My son hasn't slept through the night ONCE in his 16 months of life. My girls where doing this by 5 and 7 months of age. I am NOT used to this. Mr. Chubby sleeps in his crib which is sidecarred against out double bed. But let's face it people. He doesn't stay in his crib. He's a huge Mama suck and can not sleep well for long if his nose isn't pressed against my skin in some fashion.
So there i am it's 9pm and I'm trying to salvage what is left of my evening. Mr. Chubbs is wide awake and ready to party. So i decide that the best course of action (or in this case, no action) is to wait him out. He'll tire eventually, right?
Hahaha.... How gulliable I've become. it's midnight before i get to bed. I realize in that moment, the moment right before you drift off to sleep, that having Eric around played an important roll.
He's "The Magic Man" the one who tames our chubby beast to sleep.  I never really realized how important of a role he played before.  Considering that i went to bed at midnight and got up at 6:20 am in order to get Bug off to the bus on time, I'm not as tired as i thought i would be.
It's Preschool day today, and LalaBear loves her preschool. So now that I've had my norning shower (which i will admit isn't always a daily thing) I'll get LalaBear and Mr. Chubbs up and get ready to roll.

I'm prepared today. ready to take on the world. I have very few days like this.. It's a nice change.