Ok, not really. I know why I don’t need sleeping pills. Because the moment I get a chance, I will sleep for 24 hours straight without them. Sigh. Youngest is sick… was having asthma issues which opened him up to some other bug. Shoot me now. 9pm at night and I had my hubby run a tepid bath for the bugger. The whole Elementary school is coughing and hacking. Sucks to be young and living here right now. Just hope my oldest holds out a little longer. Just hope I hold out a little bit longer. Got my hopes up for the little guy since they are having a valentine’s party on Friday. Amazing how they can bounce back when something fun is in the future. Ok, off to give blood and hopefully get something to eat soon. I hate fasting…

It amazes me how quickly they grow up. Look at this silly boy! Click to enlarge.

I asked him to do some ‘GQ’ modeling for me after that… he certainly won’t need any bodybuilding supplements as he gets older… take a look at these muscles!

Or better yet… can’t you picture this on the cover of GQ (Gentleman’s Quarterly Magazine)?

I have to say… I think my youngest must have a good sense of humor to pose for mom. Hard to believe he is only six. Sigh… where did those years go?

I might need to look at more home insurance quotes if i keep letting my kids work in the yard. But isn’t he a cutie?

I love the hat and glasses! If that wasn’t enough, look at my oldest! Click to enlarge any of these.

The man with the truck is a friend of mine. He has a yard business and came over to cut some limbs and help get the yard cleaned up. The kids wanted to earn some extra money… win win situation. Of course being boys, they did want to pick up the little limbs… ohhhh noooo…

It was a great time by all this weekend. Just taking me a while to get all the photos and stuff together. I have such good kids. It makes me wonder how they can drive me over the edge so fast!

Here is my Kindergarten boy… I love his story about his birthday. The interpretation is below it:

This is my sixth birthday. I ate donuts. It was good. It was at school. I went to Disney before specials.

The 1 x 11 – 10 is really 1/11/10 (the date it was written). One step at a time. Both boys are really growing up. What am I going to do when they hit their teen years and I can’t be mushy over this stuff???

Lots been going on, but mostly it has been me working on a yearbook for the kids’ school. Hence, not a lot on stuff to post out here. Though I have been looking at what my children eat. We are cutting back on the sweets (had way to much over the christmas break)… and I’m letting them have hamburgers for breakfast. I thought chicken nuggets with waffles smelled bad… making hamburgers at 5:45am is enough to make me want to barf. Ugh.

Hope everyone is staying warm and will try to get my brain into gear for the rest of the week!

Seems that the holiday season has struck our house… literally. The boys are striking one another. I had to set up some rules. Do something nice and you get a nice point. Point out that your brother did something nice and you both get nice points. Tattle on your brother (with no blood or marks involved) and you both get naughty points. Mom has to discipline you, you get two naughty points. At the end of the day, Santa gets called with an update.

Today we actually had more nice points than naughty points. But I was VERY lenient with them. Three more days seem VERY long … good thing I made that fudge yesterday.

Seven days and I have no Christmas cards written or sent out. I didn’t even get my gift to Germany mailed yet. I am sooooo sluggish this year. Then again, it is just me. The conversation with my youngest, who woke up for no known reason, went like this at 5:30am:

Mom: Good morning, I love you (as we snuggle)
Tot: What day is it?
Mom: *blink* Friday
Tot: Seven Days until Christmas
Mom: *laughter*

Yaa, not exactly what you want to be reminded of at 5:30am.

The boys only have today and tomorrow and then it is Christmas Break. I am excited and terrified at the same time. They have very high energy right now. Constantly getting on each others nerves and MINE. He tackled me, he threatened to tell on me, he punched me, he took my toy, he won’t let me see it, he won’t give it back… you can see how much this is driving me nuts.

I am hoping to have lunch with them today since I haven’t in weeks… and because I won’t be around much for the Friday parties. I have to get my nose sucked out one last time. Ugh. I hope you are going to have a great day today and I hope that I am going to survive the holidays at home with two overly active boys. Wish me luck!