Well I know I’m dangerously close to not keeping my blog up again. So here it goes.

My Mom’s gone AWOL weekend was great. We ate well, we drank well, we stayed in a fancy suite, we got manicures and pedicures, I won $50, and we shopped and laughed. What more can you want in a weekend away from responsibilities?

I am not sure if it was the break or that spring is coming but I really got my rear in gear with doing school with the kiddos. I have so been slacking with Emily. I keep telling myself she is only 5 we have years and years to teach her all she needs to know. But it is time to do way more than I do with her. Great news is Brandon is starting to work more independently. And he has caught his mom’s addiction to curriculum because next year’s stuff has come in and he is dying to start it! LOL

My husband, as any one that knows me will tell you, I adore. I do. He is wonderful to me. I am very grateful to God that He provided me with this man. But he was SOOOOOO great about this Mom’s gone AWOL weekend .Really I have never been so spoiled. Buy what you want, stay gone as long as you want, enjoy yourself, live it up, this is your weekend honey, don’t worry about us, and the whole time he was working and taking the kids to work, and rushing them here and there. What a guy! I could really get used to that. So, I have decided I’m going to be such an awesome wife that he’ll want to treat me that way all the time.

First step in that direction, one of the best ways to be a good wife is to be a great mom. If I have the kids and house running well that takes stress out of his life. So, no more kids in the living room and our room. Both children have TVs in their rooms and there is no reason they should bring all their stuff to the other rooms to play and watch TV. Plus it is soooooo past time for them to sleep in their rooms and not the living room or our room. I’m an attached parenting kind of mom but hey this has gone too far!!! LOL So, this weekend we are working on cleaning their rooms and organizing them so that they are such wonderful places to be that they never want to leave them.

Once I accomplish step one It will be easier to keep our room, the living room, and kitchen clean. My next step is keep clothes washed (not being 10 loads behind in other words), kitchen always neat with no dirty dishes, the bedroom a safe haven to come home to at night (right now it looks like his office) and supper by 6 o’clock.

Since he is working 12 hours a day, sometimes 7 days a week, I also plan to start doing some the chores that are traditionally his. He bought a great self propelled lawn mower that will help. It is not a riding lawn mower but beggars can’t be choosers. But my absolute biggest goal is to clean out the storage shed and purge purge purge all this Ca- Ca this family has piled up around the house, yard and shed.

So if I’m not blogging for a while..... Hopefully it is because I’m working my tail off .....which hopefully will help with my other goal of losing 30 pounds! Send good vibes my way!