Unproductive Sunday

We didn't go to church today. Taylor has had a cold for the last week and it started getting worse this weekend so we had to stay home today. I had planned to get so much done today. Since we didn't have to get up and get dressed and go somewhere today I was going to have one of those pajama cleaning days. You know the kind...where you stay in your pjs all day and attempt to get your house all cleaned up and scrubbed. The kind where your children steer clear of you for fear that you'll put them to work or fear of being clobbered by one of your flying limbs as you scrub yourself into a frenzy. Well, part of my plan worked. I'm still in my pjs.

The kids have been a blessed handful today. Emma found some nail polish (clear-thank you LORD!) and decided to do her nails and toes. She painted them on my computer desk. Did you know that nail polish will strip wood furniture down to the bare, smooth, not an ounce of stain left on you, surface? Interesting. No, I didn't kill her. She's still kickin'. Napping right now. I've found that's the best thing for her after little mishaps (did you hear the sarcasm) like that. Helps me to keep my sanity too. Ahhh, nap time. She has been in time out about 67 times today. Bless her heart, she just has such a strong will. She knows what she wants and no amount of my screaming "NO!", "STOP!" or "I'M FIXING TO SPANK YOUR LITTLE BUTT!" deters her from doing whatever she had in mind to do in the first place. One of her punishments today was that she had to clean her room. I put her in there in the middle of the mess and told her not to come out till it was done and I shut the door. Before I could get to the bottom of the stairs she was screaming through her tears "I gotta go potty!" I'm not sure if she really had to go or if she was using that to come out of her room. For fear of creating a bigger mess, I yelled up to her that she could go but must go right back into her room. Crying instantly ceases! She did get her room cleaned up. I only had to go back up once and put her back in there. She was so proud of herself. Taylor was shocked. I heard her say "OH MY GOSH! Who cleaned up this room for you?!" I think she wanted to make sure that I didn't clean it because I didn't clean HERS up for her. She came downstairs and said in her dramatic, you won't believe this voice "MOM, have you seeeeen her room? It's clean!" Taylor and I both were shocked that she'd picked up her toys. Usually when it's time to clean up the living room at night, she falls to the floor or across the couch in a limp heap and whines "I non't know how" or "I'm too tie-ewd" or "I don't feew dood". She does as little as possible to get her by without getting more than a couple swats on the behind and that's it. I guess she saw that I was about to go psycho-mom on her if she didn't straighted up and mind. ha! :)

Taylor has been a pretty good girl. (Probably due to nearly seeing psycho-mom appear.) She's pretty much been standing back letting Emma have all the glory today. (She's getting smarter! :) )She's been in about 4 different outfits so far today. But that's the norm for her. I really thought that having her hang and put away her own laundry and gather and bring down the dirty would influence her need to wear several different outfits everyday. Unfortunately, it hasn't. But if that's the worst there is to complain about, It's really not so bad. She cleaned her room today too. About a month ago, I moved her furniture around and changed up her room a little bit. She really likes it now. I switched out some of the furniture between her and Emma's rooms and it made her room look a little more mature. So she has been doing a really good job of keeping it clean. (Should've done that a long time ago!) She enjoys spending time in there now too. I moved a lamp that Emma had into Taylor's room and she loves that thing. Has it on all the time! I guess it helps to create a cozy feel in there that she likes. I'm hoping to fix up her room a little bit soon. I want to get her a new bedspread, maybe curtains and possibly paint the walls or get some of those wallpaper stickers and put up. I just can't decide exactly what I want to do in there or what colors I want to go with. She likes everything just about and is easy to please with that kind of stuff. Any good ideas about what I should do in there?? I want to go with something a little more mature...something that can last maybe a few years before it needs to be changed again. Her Papaw Donny sold her calf and had the check made out to her. I told her that she has a check coming in the mail...her "cow money". :) I explained to her that we are going to put the majority of the money into her savings account but that I'd let her have some of it to pick out some new things for her room. She's excited about that. Now if I can just keep her away from that Hannah Montana microphone clock and room stuff that they have at Wal-Mart now! ha!

Well, I guess I should go now...I told Taylor that I'd let her go swimming this afternoon and she's really beginning to get impatient with me!

Nathan, if you're reading this, I AM going to get the house cleaned. :) ...before you get home on Wednesday. So lets see, that means I have somewhere around.......39 more "working" hours till you get here. That'll probably be enough time for me to get that "living hair ball that nearly took off one of your toes" out of our shower drain before you get home. :)