Since the little minions were driving mommy out of her mind, i opted to do a swap for a week, so she’s down at the office keeping the kids in line… and i’m at home masquerading as the spoon wielding harbinger of sore bottoms.

Well… actually my week has gone more like this…

But don’t tell mommy, she thinks we’re hard at working cleaning … something.

It’s kind of my unofficial vacation. Being self-employed one can never actually take vacations. We’re not like the cubical farm inhabitants of corporate America. Things like paid vacation, sick time and benefits are not in our vocabulary. They are mere shimmers of a dream, faint wisps of something far off that we read about in books, but ..

oh wait.. a dispute has arisen over the ownership of the sheep toy.. i must grab my spoon and investigate …

All is well, we were able to settle the dispute with peaceful negotiations.

SO.. where was i? Oh, the joys of self employment. i think i can sum it up best in the words of the old man. “Why should I work 8 hours a day for someone else, when I can work 16 for myself!”. Words of wisdom i shall cherish and someday pass on to my son when he decides to throw his sanity and financial stability to the wind and start his own entrepreneurial endeavors.

I should quit before this turns into a book, but rest assured as you all toil away in your grey fabric cells, munching your power bar and wasting your employers time reading my wife’s website… I SHALL RETURN!!

Now, where did i put my spoon?

I’d love for each of you to post the link to your blogs. Many of you don’t always post the link when you comment and I like to visit all of your sites. I’m going to build a page with all your links for easier browsing.

So send me your link!

(note: to cut down on spam, I have the comments set up so I have to approve comments that include links, so if it doesn’t show up right away, that’s why.)

Tonight I asked Eden to brush her teeth. After 20 minutes of running around, discovering, “look I’ve got two toothbrushes. I want to brush my teeth with the Jasmine tooth brush,” and then running out with both the Jasmine tooth brush and the My Little Pony tooth brush proclaiming, “My bear toothpaste is lost, I’m going to use your spicy toothpaste.” and then coming out to say that the spicy toothpaste was too spicy and that she lost their chairs to stand on and checking all rooms of the house for the chairs, she finally got her teeth brushed. (I know that was like the longest sentence in the history of the world, but I don’t care.)

I told her that she needed to go back and do a better job, because in the 20 minute course of preparing to brush, she only brushed enough to suck the “spicy” toothpaste off the brush and call it good. She went to brush more and then came out, struck a cheesey-grinned pose and said, “How about now?”

I just had this overwhelming sense of deja vu. My little sis and I would always play a game with our parents where we’d ask them how good our teeth looked. Most of the time we’d trick them into thinking that we’d actually brushed, when we hadn’t. It made me think, wasn’t it like five minutes ago that I was a little squirly kid who was trying to get out of brushing my teeth? And now I HAVE one of those squirly kids?

Jim and I both often wonder this, Who gave us kids?

I’m working at the office all this week, Jim’s staying home with the kiddos. I doubt that I’ll have much exciting news to share, but I’ll try to get Jim to do a guest post. Afterall, he is being me this week.

Sorry about the menu too, Does anyone want to post their menu for this week? That would be really cool.

Monday
Baked Chicken Parmesan & Pasta

Tuesday
Sloppy Joes and Lay’s chips

Wednesday
chicken of some sort, Green beans, mashed taters

Thursday
Hamburger Helper, baybee! and some sort of veggie

Friday
Ordering Pizza

Saturday
Chicken Kabobs

This is very, very cool. A stripe generator. You just select your colors and number of rows and it will generate a random pattern for you.

stripe maker

… that if you try and grill a pizza on a pizza stone, the stone will break. Boo.

But on a good note, the pizza grilled up great!

We’re trying to think of something really cool and fun and super cheap to do tonight, any ideas?

Today when I was coming up from the basement after doing a load of laundry, I found Eden on the back porch daintily eating almonds. Honor was standing next to her drinking maple syrup straight from the bottle.

I just have to say how much I love camping. Isn’t it beautiful? It makes me wonder why I live in the desert? Maybe it’s because I can drive less than an hour and end up here.

Jim and Eden at the glade park movie

Since no one ever takes a pic of me, I’ll take one of myself.

Cookie time!

Because even his jammies couldn’t be clean.

And this is to show how bad of a mom I am.
Her first sunburn.
Who knew that you could get burned in the shade?

I had intended to post pictures from our weekend camping trip, but I woke up this morning at 4:30am with a migraine. Luckily my medication worked this time and my head is feeling better, but I’m pretty sick to my stomach. I didn’t get a chance to grab my camera as I headed out the door, we were already 10 minutes late to Eden’s dance class. So I’m at the office now and I don’t really have much to say other than….

MIGRAINES SUCK!

That’s all. There will be pics of camping tomorrow.