My week has been nothing but kids kids kids and more kids. On Monday and Tuesdays I watch two little kids. One is 1 1/2 years old and the other is 3 months old. Their mother is a school teacher who just returned to work after maternity leave. I have only watched them for maybe 3 times since she returned because of all the snow and school cancels we have had. So Monday was sort of a get reaquainted day. Dalton was being so extremely bossy to Matthew (1 1/2 year old). I guess Dalton thought he could take advantage of the situation because if he talked to Caitlynn like that she would beat the crap out of him. So I had that to deal with all day. The 3 month old is challenging in itself. She has to be held all the time, cries like crazy when she is tired or hungry. It always takes me awhile to get her settled down after her frequent fits. But at the end of Monday I deemed that day a pretty good day. Then came Tuesday.
Tuesday Megan(3 month old) was HORRIBLE. And to top it off the youth pastor's daughter is staying with us for 3 days. She is 3. So Tuesday I had 5 kids 3 and younger. Need I say more.... I was pretty frazzled by the end of the day.
Wednesday Kylie (pastor's daughter) had preschool. While she was there I had some brainiac idea to go grocery shopping with Caitlynn and Dalton. They actually did pretty well as long as I kept them entertained by feeding them whatever was in the cart. I have been trying to potty train Caitlynn for almost 2 weeks now. It isn't going well. She is perfectly happy sitting in wet panties. If I take her she will go. But she won't tell me she has to go. And sometimes she refuses to even go in the bathroom. She doesn't want to miss a moment playing with Kylie so her fits of stubborness have been frequent. Dalton is no where near even starting being potty trained but insists he needs to go. Which for him means going into the bathroom and playing.
To top all of this off I do the books for the school band. Since this is month end I have some work to do. I haven't even done what I was suppose to have done by last month end. I won't even go into all the detail of what a challenge this has been. Don't get me wrong. I LOVE doing this and the books in itself are no big deal. BUT when you aquire a bunch of crap it takes a lot of work to clean it up. I think I have all my problems fixed and straightened out. Now next week I meet with the treasurer to make sure we balance together. I don't have high expectations since we already know we don't. They haven't balanced the books since June 2008. We just don't know how much we are off.
So Monday and Tuesday night after dealing with kids all day I stayed up very late working on the band books. Last night I was absolutely exhausted and just wanted to crash. But Kiley was having an emotional night missing her parents. Today, I am totally stressed because there was so much work with Pampered Chef I needed to do the last two weeks that I haven't done. I have shows on Friday and Saturday which I am looking forward to but that means I need to get my act together today and well.... here I sit.
OK!!! time to give kids baths and get them dressed for the day...
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