Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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.

6 comments:

Kristina P. said...

I've been struggling with what to do with my hair. I cut it pretty short, about a year and a half ago, and I've been growing it out. It's past my shoulders now, and I don't know if I want to go longer, or cut it again. Decisions, decisions.

Jillene said...

I am glad that you got all of your cleaning done!

I think that you should cut your hair short. I really like you with short hair better than with long hair--my own opinion. CUT IT SHORT!! GO SHORT!! YEA SHORT!!

Amanda and Nick said...

Cleaning. Ugh. I think I reacted the same way your kids did when Nick told me we were cleaning the house. Congratulations it is over, mine was the worst 15 hours of my life.

Heather said...

I've been meaning to get a hair cut too, Oaklen keeps pulling my hair and all I do now is put it in a ponytail. I'll probably cut it short like the last time so I won't be able to put it in the pony tail.

Good job on the cleaning, we cleaned our basement a few weeks ago and it felt so good! It's nice to have something to look forward to and a deadline for cleaning.

Holly said...

I LOVE cleaning so I can't relate.

I can't wait to see the new hairdo though! I'm so not brave when it comes to new hairstyles.

Torina said...

Cleaning and I don't get along. That's why I got three cleaners, er, I mean kids.