Is there a tattoo on my forhead?

This morning I woke up and was actually out of bed before 9. It was actually just after 8 when the kids are taking off for school. M & B were gone already going around the neighborhood collecting the kids to walk to school together. C was sitting at the kitchen table about to pour milk into his cereal bowl. Luckily I was able to have him stop because his wonderful sister who's one and only household chore is the dishes has not done them in 3 days and the dishwasher is even loaded all she had to do was turn it on!

I then went to turn on the TV for C & A and the TV was on a different channel than what it was when I turned it off. We have a rule in our home of no TV before school. They can read, do homework, heaven forbid catch up on their chores. But no!

Also now that M is 12 The Husband decided that it was time for a cell phone... again. Two rules 1) always have it with you 2) always have it turned on. Well rule 1 is followed pretty well rule 2 hardly happens. I am so tired of the disrespect M has for her father. She sits there and asks for responsibility but once given hardly ever follows through.

I love these kids but man it makes life really hard when I want to do nice things for them and they turn around and break rule after rule.

Just thoughts

So as a family we went to Disneyland for Halloween Time. B's birthday is today so we got him a pin that says it's his birthday and he wore it every day. M for her birthday present and because she knew we were planning this family trip decided to wait to recieve her present from me and The Husband until she got to Disneyland and had a studio 365 make over. Man was she cute! Unfortunatly they also gave her a birthday pin and it totally took away from B's Thunder. The next day both kids wore their birthday pins and everyone said Happy birthday to M but nothing to B. M was also asked to lead the disneyland Big Band with Mickey and was able to take special pictures with him and everything. B sat quietly in the background doing nothing as his sister once again took the thunder from his birthday. Later that day I made The Husband take the kids to Jedi training where they select children fromt he audience to go to jedi training school and the kids get to fight Lord Vader or Darth Mal. B was chosen from the audience and went through the training and got a diploma and everything. But for some reason I was not happy enough with that. After training was over I took him over to a little stand and bought him a new light saber. He freaked out over this becasue he was not expecting it at all and I got him the one that make noises and everything. We aslo went and looked at the pictures and I let him pick out one for his room. Made his day! So after 2 days of sharing the light with M I was able to turn a whole day into just him and his special birthday. The crazy part about all of this is that you could see it on his face that he was sad but he always got excited for M when she talked about her makeover or her leading the band. Not once did he let her know he was sad that he was having to share. That little boy is such an example. He is truly a free spirit that loves everyone and does not understand why people hurt each other. I love how he plays with A an is such a big brother to her and always wants to teach her things and play games with her.