Week ending February 3, 2008: Chloe drew a picture that week that impressed me (again). She says it is a picture of me wearing my “pretty red dress” (that I wore on the cruise) and I have matching pretty red shoes (product of wishful thinking, I don’t really have red shoes) and I have a pink bow in my hair and she drew in a black frame around the picture.
My next story I’m ashamed to tell. I asked Alex to put on his shoes so we could leave and he told me he was going to put on two different shoes, one dress shoe, and one sneaker. I wasn’t fond of the idea so I asked if the other kids would likely wear matching shoes and he agreed they wouldn’t. I asked if he thought he’d like to be like the rest of the kids, or different, and he decided he’d like to be like the rest of the kids. Just another pathetic sheep, following the herd. Way to go, Mom! In hind sight, I wish I’d let it go.
We made cookies this week from a recipe we saw in their “Your Big Backyard” magazine. The glossy layout showed colorful cookies artfully arranged to look like a variety of animals so I said “do you want to make those cookies?” And, of course, they did. Almost as soon as I said it I knew it was not going to be nearly as easy as it looked in the magazine. Why do I start this Martha Stewart garbage? In the end the kids were happy with the results and we made cookies with rolled oats in them, so they weren’t nutritiously vacuous. Then the problem was that the kids didn’t like the taste, so they just licked the icing off and didn’t eat the cookies. So much for nutrition.
Something I forgot to mention from the parent-teacher conference was that the teachers pointed out that Alex and Chloe aren’t “attached at the hip” in class as some twins are. I’m glad that they are confident enough to each find friends and activities of their own.
On a final note, I’d like to share what I learned about cat pee. It took me 4 days to get the smell out of everything meanwhile the kids slept on make-shift beds. The enzymatic cleaner worked on the mattresses as long as we soaked it thoroughly enough and allowed enough time for the product to work. I washed one load of bed clothes 3 times and the smell was still there. Then I learned that baking soda and vinegar in the washing machine takes out the cat pee smell. The next load with the baking soda and vinegar took out the smell the first time! I didn’t know how much to use, so I used a 1/2lb of baking soda and a pint of vinegar. That did the trick! I had to wash 2 comforters, 2 sets of sheets and 2 mattress pads which was 4 loads of laundry. I’m still not feeling very congenial toward the cat, but I let her live.
My next story I’m ashamed to tell. I asked Alex to put on his shoes so we could leave and he told me he was going to put on two different shoes, one dress shoe, and one sneaker. I wasn’t fond of the idea so I asked if the other kids would likely wear matching shoes and he agreed they wouldn’t. I asked if he thought he’d like to be like the rest of the kids, or different, and he decided he’d like to be like the rest of the kids. Just another pathetic sheep, following the herd. Way to go, Mom! In hind sight, I wish I’d let it go.
We made cookies this week from a recipe we saw in their “Your Big Backyard” magazine. The glossy layout showed colorful cookies artfully arranged to look like a variety of animals so I said “do you want to make those cookies?” And, of course, they did. Almost as soon as I said it I knew it was not going to be nearly as easy as it looked in the magazine. Why do I start this Martha Stewart garbage? In the end the kids were happy with the results and we made cookies with rolled oats in them, so they weren’t nutritiously vacuous. Then the problem was that the kids didn’t like the taste, so they just licked the icing off and didn’t eat the cookies. So much for nutrition.Something I forgot to mention from the parent-teacher conference was that the teachers pointed out that Alex and Chloe aren’t “attached at the hip” in class as some twins are. I’m glad that they are confident enough to each find friends and activities of their own.
On a final note, I’d like to share what I learned about cat pee. It took me 4 days to get the smell out of everything meanwhile the kids slept on make-shift beds. The enzymatic cleaner worked on the mattresses as long as we soaked it thoroughly enough and allowed enough time for the product to work. I washed one load of bed clothes 3 times and the smell was still there. Then I learned that baking soda and vinegar in the washing machine takes out the cat pee smell. The next load with the baking soda and vinegar took out the smell the first time! I didn’t know how much to use, so I used a 1/2lb of baking soda and a pint of vinegar. That did the trick! I had to wash 2 comforters, 2 sets of sheets and 2 mattress pads which was 4 loads of laundry. I’m still not feeling very congenial toward the cat, but I let her live.
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