Bleh, bleh, bleh

Oh Lord, this is much harder to do than I even thought it was going to be.

I first thought, this is hard because our life is so boring!!!  But, I don't know, that must have been a moment of confusion or delusion or something because our lives aren't boring AT ALL, possibly the complete opposite of boring, so I don't know why on earth that thought would have ever popped in my head.

Then, I thought, I don't really have anything to write about because while we aren't "boring" we aren't exactly interesting either.  We actually aren't interesting at all.  I think that's what I meant/thought by "boring."

So, I was going to right that, "Our lives are boring and uninteresting and we're happy with that."  Lalalalala.

BUT, then 2 things happened; I remembered that I really, really hate it when I read blogs or fb posts or newspaper articles about people talking about how great their lives are, how perfect their kids are, how fan-freaking-tastic everything is.  I really don't like that because I know it makes other people feel bad and who would want to do that?  Then, the second thing happened, which is that Maddie (whom I previously wrote wonderful things about in another post) turned evil.  Not completely evil, just before school, after school and before bed, and sometimes in between after school and before bed.  The child is literally fighting with me about every, single possible thing under the sun.  And, to be perfectly honest, it's driving me CRAZY!!!!!  And, it's turned me into a cranky, grumpy, grump that doesn't want to write anything at all.  Can I just give you a quick example?  So, every morning I try to "do" her hair.  I always put it up in a ponytail, braid or bun mainly because I have an irrational fear of lice and I read once that it's hard for the little buggers to "jump" into hair that's pulled back but also because it's crazy hair and I don't want it to get in her face while she's working or playing.  Anyway, for the past week or so she's yelled at me that she hates ponytails and everyone will laugh at her if she wears her hair in a ponytail and blah, blah, blah.  So, I'm a big believer in picking my battles and that's not really a battle I needed to have with her so I let it go.  Today, she wears her hair down, we pull up to school, her little BFF comes up to her with her hair in a ponytail and Maddie whines to me, "ohhhhh, you NEVER put my hair in a ponytail." And it made me want to scream!!!  You see where I'm coming from?

Anyway, there's absolutely NO POINT to that story except that I just needed to get it off my chest.

Back to the point.  I do feel bad about not writing this blog though because I agreed to do the 31 for 21 challenge and now I'm wimping out on it.  Everyone's lives are busy and everyone has stuff going on and everyone else seems to handle it while I just get grumpy and cranky.

So, here's my thing for today.  Logan has been in a really, really, REALLY happy mood for the past few weeks.  I think he's gotten in his groove at school, and he's making progress, and we've got some other things that we've been working on that have all just clicked and it makes me so ridiculously happy to hear him chat away about school and his friends and all the things he does.  I'm proud of him and I'm proud of us too because we (me and Sam) worked really hard to get him to this place and I'm going to make a valiant effort to just enjoy this wonderful time and be grateful for at least one kids happiness.

I mean I guess all the kids can't be happy all the time.  Right now we have 1 out of 3 (Georgie's sick so she's grumpy too) and that's better than 0 out of 3.  Right?