We Are Free

For the weekend that is. I took all three of the kids to mom's house today for the weekend. I'll be picking them up on Sunday. Yippee. Dominic and I have not been in this house by ourselves since Lenny was born and he will be four years old this month. We have lots of home improvement projects that we need to get done and it's almost impossible to get them done with the kids here.

My mom is one brave woman especially now that Brooke and Nathan are at that age where they get into everything. Lenny was so easy at this age. I didn't have to put away any of my nice things when Lenny was little. He has always been so good about that. Well, Brooke and Nathan are a completely different story. They get in to everything. I had a wooden birdhouse (that's not breakable) that I kept on an end table in the family room for the longest time and I joked that I wasn't going to give that up. I was putting my foot down. Well, just a few weeks ago, I moved it to another room. Now there is nothing in the family room on the end tables and we don't even have the coffee table in there anymore.

I think it is because there are two of them together that makes it harder to teach them to leave things alone. They team up on me so that I can't keep them both away at once. I know that is their tactic. The best way to describe it would be like this. You know in football, if you have a really good offense then you can really wear out a defense by the second half of the game. That's what happens to me on a daily basis. I'm playing defense against a really good offense. By the end of the day, I'm just wore out. About the time that I think I have Nathan covered and am getting him off of the table, that's when Brooke comes along out of nowhere and pulls the vent cover out of the floor.

Good luck Woman!