cinaflower's Journal

Nothing much is happening. That's good. No craziness, except the usual craziness- nothing extra. Thank goodness!

My Halloween party went really well. My youngest son had about 7 friends or so and they ran around from the trampoline, to eating, to playing football, to just acting silly. The oldest son only had the friend who's mom was doing the party with me, and one more that came when the party was ending. He forgot supposedly to give his friend half the invitations to give out- or to give any out- he talked to a couple of people about it. It made me really really mad- and I'm thinking he did it on purpose just because he thought it was all lame- but his dad thinks he just really forgot- he is very disorganized and dyslexic so it's possible he just forgot- but UGH! About 4 parents hung out, and my best pal came to hang out and we all visited and it was fun. The mom who was supposed to bring food went on and on about how she was going to make cute cupcakes and do all this lovely stuff, and we were going to do hot dogs or whatever- and at the last minutes she comes with cans of chili- no cheese or sour cream or utensils or napkins (I happened to have some)- to make chili fritos- which turned out fine but I really did a lot of work to get ready for the party and to clean up after the party- she took one trip to the grocery store and didn't get one cute Halloween thing. I'm doing it again next year, and I'm making stuff to eat that's cute!

The weekend was busy and we had fun. We got the kids some winter clothes at Old Navy, bought the oldest son size 14 tennis shoes!, went to Pet Smart, and went to eat and that was fun to all hang out. My husband's still mad about spending too much that day- it really wasn't bad considering how much we got- and that all the kids need way more clothes for the winter- but he doesn't think about all that.

We've been doing pretty good- nothing awesome but no hard feelings about anything surfacing, so that's good. Tonight is our counseling again. We didn't do our homework yet- I guess we'll do it in the car on the way there.

Personally, I feel very disorganized and things feel like they're getting too crazy- papers, mail, house stuff- it's overwhelming. And, of course, the puppy. He's so cute- but a mess. He's doing really well and cleaning his cage and taking care of him isn't hard, but he is one more thing to take care of- I'm still glad I got him, though. It's worth it, he's so precious and everyone is having so much fun with him.

I did clean one room yesterday, my bathroom, and tidied up around the house- but that isn't enough. I had off yesterday and I could've done much more to put a dent in the housework- but I relaxed all day- and I needed that too- so I guess I better stop beating myself up about it!

I need to develop and stick to a plan with the eating and exercising especially. I need to take better care of this body if I expect it to keep going!