Archive for January 2nd, 2008
Won’t you be my neighbor?
My kids have gotten to the age, and we live in the right neighborhood for them to finally have “friends” besides the the kids my friends have and have forced them to have friendships with. The only problem with this that they want to play inside the house. Those who know me, know I’m not the most social or trusting person. From the moment my kids asked to go i told them NO! That was until the parent of one of the kids came over and asked. I told myself to put away the negative thoughts that law and order SVU had put in my head and allow my children to go and have a good time! I did and they did and they came home in one piece an unharmed! Now that the kids are playing in my house with their new found friends. I find myself realizing how “un-fun” i can be when it comes to my kids. “No dumping toys out everywhere, No playing with the puzzles, No riding bikes to close to the road, No this, No that!” I am realizing i am the UN-FUN parent! I didn’t want to be this person, but my overly negative state of mind and nonexistent desire to clean(b/c YES i will be the one searching for the missing puzzle pieces in the giant hep of dumped toys b/c Payton is screaming he cant find his one puzzle piece and he wont be able to go on in life without it completed!) have forced this to happen. I always thought I’d be the cool parent, the one that allowed all the FUN to happen but the thought of all that “FUN” being had makes me extremely nervous. My mind begins to race with “what ifs”. I can just hear Madison telling her shrink of the horridly un-fun childhood she experienced and how her mother is to blame for it ALL!!!
New year = New look
Happy New Year Everyone!!!! Trying to spruce things up around here. New Years Resolution #88 = More blogging! 
Any hoo, things are hectic this morning so I shall return soon to get things spruced up.
Ta Ta for now…
