Taco Tuesday!

So we started theme nights at our house for suppers. This came about due to my desire not to be a short order cook as well as my desire to increase nutritious food intake and decrease bribing and negotiations every night. I assigned each kid a night and they got to pick the theme for supper. So now we have Pizza Monday, Taco Tuesday, Pasta Wednesday, Potato Thursday, Breakfast Friday, International Saturday and Wild card Sunday. It really has worked out well, we are going on 4 weeks now, and the kids are eating better. The rule is if you don't like the meal for a particular night, then you get the substitute. The sub is a cheesy roll up. No more cooking 3 or 4 meals a night. Anyway I really need a leftover night, things keep building up. Actually Dad's night is international and he pretty much gets screwed...no Chinese, Mexican or Thia foods yet. Tonight is breakfast so I should probably get cooking.

To-do list

So I knew it was time to tackle the nastiness that had accumulated on my bathtub. I called my hubby and told him to get some comet and yellow and green sponges. I was prepared. But of course I procrastinated a while. Not willing to commit the time or maybe effort to do it. Well then I got some news that was unfortunate and really annoyed me; actually pissed me off. Well nothing better than being pissed to get some cleaning done. So after 45 minutes of scrubbing and soaking and scrubbing some more I emerged from the bathroom feeling renewed. I mean I thought I had completed a major feat but was surprised when my oldest son came out of the bathroom and commented on how nice the tub looked. Nice that he noticed, it was sweet. Then my 9 yr old was like dude what happened to the tub? Yep few hours later my 5 yr old said wow mom the bathtub looks so different. But the funniest story was my 6 yr old who rushed out from the bathroom and told me of some ghosts that hid behind the shower curtain and cleaned the bathtub. Ok so how dirty does the bathtub have to get for 4 out of 5 children to notice and comment that it’s been cleaned? Maybe I should stick cleaning the bathtub a little higher on my to-do list?!

So its 2012

I decided one day that I would buck the system, go old school, resist the temptation and deactivate my facebook account. It was such a relief to not have to update my status or check my newsfeed during bathroom breaks. All was going well. Then I started missing things. Oh it was little things at first...a co-workers meal...a friends wardrobe choice...an old schoolmates daily horoscope. Then I started walking into half missed conversations. I hadn't missed the conversation, it had taken place on facebook. I started leading and ending conversations with "I'm not on facebook". Then the excuses started. I missed bridal showers, baby showers, 48 hour sales, birthdays, anniversaries...people were getting haircuts, new shoes, new spouses. People started getting married and having babies. All of this without my knowledge. Craziness was happening. And I was blind to it all. So after 6 months of this I decided to return to facebook, atleast to a select group of people. I dropped most of my friends, well on facebook anyway. They may very well still be my friends in real life, although some of them I wondered who they were, and how we were "friends". But I whittled my friend list down to just the family. Anyway my point is upon returning go facebook I rediscovered my blog. So here we are blogging away in 2012. Welcome back, dear readers.