TGIT (180)

Long weekends are nice and all, but it's nicer to have the kids go back to school after one of them.

We came close to accomplishing all of our cleaning goals yesterday. There are a couple of things that I still want to do. The dining room for one. It's a wreck and I'm really going to try to clean it up this week. I'm also going to focus on maintaining the order in the rest of the house. We told the kids that they would be helping yesterday. It went OK, but I guess that depends on your definition of OK. They whined and cried a lot, but I expected that. They acted like I had shoved bamboo splinters under their fingernails when I asked them to clean their rooms. However, I think I handled myself pretty well. I only yelled 15 instead of 30 times. They've been threatened that they better maintain their rooms as well. Translate that to mean that I will be the one doing the maintaining. Oh well. I'll do it this time because I don't want it looking like a dump when my mother in law comes to watch the kids.

I think I'm going to cut my hair short (again) today. I know, I know. I always say that I'm going to grow it out. I have done it. It was just past my shoulders about 4 months ago. It's been hoovering around my chin since that time. I figure that's good enough. I just have an affinity for short styles and I can't resist. Plus it grows so darn fast that it will be back to my chin in about 3 months.