Not Everyone's Mama

well, for the season.  I’m always excited when it’s over.  I mean, I truly do love watching my children play, but all the running around isn’t the most fun I could I come up with if left to my own devices.

Snapped a few pictures today –

Miss Alyce

Katiana

Nano – he won’t sit still for a picture, almost all were blurry.

Took a break from trying to eat grass.

Glad the season is over.  Oh wait, that’s what I said, he just smiled.  LOL

It was cold.  It’s always colder out there than it is at my place.  Possibly because the fields are out in the middle of nowhere between corn fields.  I live in Iowa remember?  I always forget the temp drops like 10 degrees over there and I was wearing sandals (not Naot sandals but sandals none the less).  What was I thinking.  I was thinking my toes were frozen and muddy from the parking lot, which is gravel, and covered in standing water because we’ve gotten more rain in the last 4 days then we got all summer.  Notice my son got out of his dad’s car and didn’t put on his coat nor did he have his long sleeve shirt on under his jersey.  Oh well, choose your battles.  I say if you want to make a stupid decision, don’t complain to me when you’re a popcicle later.  Yeah, I have room to talk after saying I wore sandals.  LOL

So, it’s over.  My youngest 2 are running from the noses like faucets.  My oldest 2 are fighting and I’m pretending to ignore it.  I’m also hoping Pato gets off early.  After my last phone call he said, oh no.  I’ll call you back.  I’m going to see if I can leave.  These calls start with, YOUR CHILDREN! 

I’m going to lock myself in the bathroom when he gets home and I’m not coming out.  Swear to you, I’m not.  And the first person who tries to pop the lock is going to get hit with a spray of the first thing I find on my sink.

I’m hoping that Pato stops and gets this on the way home –

Yep, that’s an electric nose sucker.  ROFL  My sister has one and she says it’s amazing.  She says Mikayla doesn’t even mind having her nose cleaned.  Seeing as Christiano snorts when he tries to breathe and Alyce “don’t want to” blow her nose, and no one will sit still for the brown hospital nose sucker, I thought we’ll give this one a try. 

On that note, I’m signing off, my kids still aren’t listening and they are fighting.  I suppose ignoring the problem isn’t truly making it go away.  *sigh*

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