Ummm......

Having children is like eating a slice of humble pie every.stinkin'.day.  

Why didn't these things come with a manual?!?!  I have no idea what I am doing!

Chocolate For Sale!

Andrew woke me up this morning (Saturday) at 6:50 am.  He just wanted to

"let [me] know that he was going to be outside selling chocolate bars."

Here he is.

The sun is not fully up yet.

These boxes of chocolate were handed out Friday afternoon for a school fundraiser.  I had to work until 5:30 and we had plans for the rest of the evening and he was going crazy.  He needed to be selling those bars right now!  I thought it was going to kill him to have to wait till the next day.

I seized the early wake up time and ran to the grocery store for some milk for breakfast and by the time I got back he had already sold 5.  Before 7:30 in the morning!  He sold all 50 by ten in the morning.  From our driveway!  I guess I should have let him get more boxes yesterday.

Just as I was about to hit "post" he told me I had to come in the front room right now!
This is what he made for me.

  I love you too, Andrew!

Espanol

I am here because Amelia has been completely irrational and screaming at me all day.

"Mom?  Will you put the tape right here?"

"Sure."  I put the tape right there.

Screams "I didn't want you to press it down!  Why did you press it down?!  I just said PUT IT RIGHT THERE!!!"  Falls into convulsive sobbing.

So I am attempting to laugh at it rather than be undone by it.

Right now she is locked in her room screaming, "I only know how to write Dad in Spanish!  It's all I know how to do!"  Interspersed with "Who cares?!"

Umm.......did someone else teach her Spanish?  I'm not sure what she is talking about but I am going to mop my floor and pray that the girl gets some sleep already!