Reasonably Good Weekend

Okay, I promise this post won't be a "vent-fest" since my last one seems to have done that! We actually had a fairly nice weekend after all the madness at the end of the week. Joanna seems none the worse for the wear and actually told me on Friday afternoon that she had told her preschool teacher what happened to her eye. So, I told her that was good and that we didn't have to talk about it anymore; that it was over. Of course, on Saturday, Kyle wanted to bring it up again but I wouldn't let him. I told all of the kids that we were done talking about it; that Joanna had made a mistake and she was sorry and we don't need to bring it up again. So far, everyone has complied.

On Saturday, Charlie played soccer and then we went to a birthday party at Pump-It-Up in Chesterfield. Charlie played really well even getting a few good kicks in. All of the kids had a ball at the birthday party and after that we went to Wal-Mart to pick up Charlie's sport glasses, get a new lense for Joanna's glasses and do some grocery shopping. They were pretty good during that time. (Hard to believe, I know, but they really were!). They were tired out so after baths and shampoos, everyone fell asleep as soon as his or her head hit the pillow. Yay for me!

After church on Sunday, Kyle's preschool teacher came over to continue working on her project that involves Kyle and so all of the kids had a great afternoon playing with her. Since they really did a nice job behaving this weekend, we went to CiCi's Sunday evening and met a friend and her daughter. We stayed a bit late, but I still managed to get the kids in bed by 9:15pm. I also let them have "floats" -- ice cream in caffeine-free coke. I had been promising to make ice cream floats and actually wanted the kids to go ahead and go to bed when we got home, but they remembered that I had promised floats. So, to keep the peace, I said they could have small ones but then they had to brush their teeth and go to bed! They actually did just that. (Yes, I know, still hard to believe!).

After a weekend of fairly good behavior, Marcie needed to act out a little (I guess) so she did that when getting ready for school today. But, at least the other 3 were very cooperative, so we got out of the house on time. Phewww!