Losing My Mind!

Its Sunday.  Dominic is working nights this weekend and its my job to "try" to keep the boys civil and preferably quiet so that Dominic can sleep.  I bought him ear plugs but doesn't wear them.  

Ayden is a major handful!  He is currently sitting in time out for the 5th time today!  He wrapped a belt around Christian's neck at one point.  Then less than 5 minutes later he spit in Christian's mouth!!!  Ugh!  I thought I was going to loose it.  He's been climbing over the back of the couch all day after being told to stop a thousand times.  I just don't know what to do with this kid sometimes.  I guess I need to re-read my new parenting book.  

I'd like to go to Target today but honestly, leaving the house with all three boys in tow just doesn't even sound slightly appealing to me right now.  I'll wait until tomorrow when I can just have Mason and Dominic will be off.

We're inviting a potential new friend over for dinner on Tuesday.  Our good friend Zach who is currently deployed, announced several months ago that he's getting married.  We've met his fiance, Megan a few times and had lots of interaction with her online.  She's a sweetheart and we are excited for Zach.  They are planning on having their wedding and reception out at Zach's Papa's land.  She asked us if we would take her out there to sort of talk about where the best place would be for the wedding.  Then we'll pick up the boys from school and come home to have some dinner.  I'm looking forward to getting to know her better.  

I'm finding that I have much more time on my hands now that two of the boys are in school.  I would love to meet some new people preferably some other stay at home moms but I just suck at being social.  I wish I weren't so timid all the time.  Maybe I need a new hobby.

Back to the kids...

Just Stuff

Its been a fairly calm weekend.  We expected Saturday to be busy...it turned out to be busy for Dominic.  He got up early and headed out to "the land" as our family calls it.  

The land belongs to our friends Papa and Grandma.  They have been so kind in letting our family use it whenever we want.  Dominic takes the boys camping, fishing and hunting out there and they always have a blast.  Papa (Jim) used to have some cows but he sold them all this year.  There is a nice barn out there and the rest is all just mesquite trees and a few tanks or ponds with catfish.  Jim absolutely trusts Dominic and thoroughly enjoys his help out at the land. 

So early Saturday morning Dominic and the boys headed out to the land to fill the deer feeders with corn and were meeting up with Jim to help put up a new feeder.  They got out there around 8am.  Jim let the boys ride in the tractor with him and even let Christian drive it.  Jim said they were full of questions.  Christian had a Cub Scout car wash at 11am.  Dominic brought Ayden back home after filling the feeders then took Christian to the car wash.  They got home at about 1 o' clock then we had a bbq to go to at the Deason's house at 2pm.

The Deason's are some wonderful people.  Zach used to be one of Dominic's troops which is how we met them.  Zach and his family are from here so he is so lucky to be near them.  Zach is currently deployed but will be home before Thanksgiving.  His mom and dad (Laurie and John or JD) are so great.  They have babysat the boys for us a few times and are always so good to us.  They have a beautiful house here in town with a gorgeous backyard and pool.  Laurie's mom and dad are the ones that own the land outside of town.  The whole Deason family has been so kind to us and the boys...they treat us like family.  We had a great time at their house on Saturday.  They made great brisket and sausage, beans, salads and tons of desserts.  It was a blast!

We didn't have any plans for the rest of the weekend so we mostly just hung out at home yesterday.  Dominic got some wood split and stacked for the winter.  Today we ran a couple of errands and had some lunch.  Dominic is working tonight.  The boys are back to school tomorrow and we will get back into the routine.

Cub Scouts is going well so far.  There is a new den leader this year who seems determined to fix everything.  Part of that refers to not having siblings running around at the meetings which is a great idea but not for those of us who have more than one child.  He plans on having siblings sitting at a table during the meetings coloring or something.  That just won't work for us.  How do you make an 19 month old sit in a chair for an hour?  It just won't happen.  Dominic and I are committed to being more involved in scouts this year so Dominic is going to go to the meetings every other week which is when he'll be off anyway.  I will have to drop Christian off at the meeting on the other weeks.  Dominic is also doing some woodworking projects for the group that will help them get their Handyman badges.  I'm happy that he is more involved and anxious to help this year.