From this weekend:

- Potty training sucks. We all know that. But it’s suckier when you’re a working mom, I think. When I was potty training the older two, I let them run around naked or in underwear and put the potty in the living room in an attempt to lessen the chance for accidents (ha, doesn’t work). But now, with commuting an hour a day and needing to ensure no accidents in the car and having things to do after work, I have to put her in Pull-Ups at times. She wear underwear during the day and has been doing really, really well – no accidents during the day. It’s just at night or on the way home that she has accidents. As far as overnights go, she’s doing pretty well there. Sometimes she wakes up dry, sometimes she doesn’t. And I have to pretend to call her teacher to get her to sit and stay on the potty sometimes. (How’s that for undermining my own authority? Ha.) Yes, potty training sucks. But changing diapers sucks more. I’ve done it every day (but eight) for the past six years. I do not know what I’ll do when I no longer have to change diapers. lol. I might go crazy, seriously. Maybe it’s time for another kid? (JUST KIDDING! REALLY!!)

- Asking kids to do something they don’t want to do is like torture. For both of us. I’m sitting in a chair in their room blogging while they clean their room. We have been at this since 10 a.m. YESTERDAY. OMG. I seriously might die from frustration here. (And yes, this is where my mom will lecture me and tell me she knows where they get it and blah, blah, blah. Thank you, but that is not productive.) I bribed them with money, with fireworks, with swimming, with Sonic … a wide variety of things. I’ve tried to make a friendly competition (me against them – I was cleaning the bathroom vs. them cleaning their sections) and that didn’t work, either. And when Jenna is up? Ha. Yeah, good luck with trying to get ANYTHING done. I have to watch all three like hawks (Jenna has been getting into nail polish and painting things like the carpet (how do I get that out, btw?), the step stool and her whole entire body with pink glitter nail polish) – Jenna to make sure she doesn’t get into anything and the other two to make sure they’re cleaning – and so the most I can do is fold clothes or something. And then once that’s done, Jenna rolls all over my piles and Jaylen cries about putting his clothes away.

I think the men in white coats are coming? Do you hear their footsteps? Me, too.

- I really, really want a chili cheese dog right now. Thank you, Food Network.

- We have way too many clothes and way too many toys. Will be donating almost half of what we have, I believe. Actually, we may consign them. I don’t know. I really don’t have the time or patience to inventory and tag all of this crap, which is why I never eBay anything anymore.

- Jaiden likes to do laundry. She is SO not my child.

- Speaking of Jaiden, since her birthday is Friday, today was her Sunday to be blessed and prayed for at church (we do it for birthdays and anniversaries). She was so proud to say she was six and was so delighted that after the service people were coming to her and wishing her a ‘happy birthday’. I can’t believe she’s going to be SIX already. That’s more fingers than one hand can hold. And now she’s closer to double digits than she is to infancy. How do I feel about this? The same as I do every other year: a little sad, but a little excited. And a little old. I was 21 when I had her – can’t believe I now have a first-grader who has lost two (three, really) teeth and is, as we speak, trying to write her name in cursive. After church today she begged me to take her picture, so I did. She pretty much posed herself and told ME how it was going to go down. lol. Well okay then …

- Jaylen was sick today. I first knew this when I woke up and he was asleep next to me on the floor. The boy hates to sleep, and will not usually go back to sleep. He was running a fever and must have a slight cold or something. I kept him home from church today.

- Jenna thinks the nursery is someone’s house. It almost looks that way, though it’s not. She usually cries every Sunday when I hand her off to the nursery worker, but this week I have been working with her and got her excited to go to “Ms. Diane’s house,” only Ms. Diane wasn’t there today and we didn’t have nursery. lol. Fun.

- I love, love, love “Tori & Dean, Home Sweet Hollywood.” It was my first time watching them and I like them. I also watched other chick shows and movies – Bend it Like Beckham (love), Pride and Prejudice and About a Boy.

- Took the kids to see Kung Fu Panda on Friday night. Jenna was a HELLION. Well, sorta. She would NOT sit still. Normally she will if she has popcorn and a drink, but she was not having it Friday. She wanted to eat the candy the other two kids had. She wanted to sit in the seats in front of us. She wanted to talk REALLY LOUD. She yelled, “NENNA HAVE GO POOP! NENNA HAVE GO POTTY!” really loud during a quiet part. Embarrassing! I guy I used to date was there with his wife and son (he and his wife were divorcing at the time we dated, but have since reconciled) and so it was almost all the more embarrassing. lol. His son was quiet (he’s five and knows how to act, though, Jenna’s only two).

- Tomorrow is my divorce hearing. After six years of being cheated on, two-and-a-half years of being separated, one year after filing, $1300 and one black eye, my day has finally, finally arrived. I never thought I’d get divorced, especially here lately. But the time has finally come. I don’t know whether it will be final tomorrow or not, when I have been in Chancery Court, the plaintiff has walked away divorced. I’m hopeful that it ends up that way, but there have been many snags in this process for me, so we’ll see what happens. I’m hoping tonight is my last night as a married woman. A girl can only dream, right?

- This will be a busy week – divorce hearing, a sixth birthday and a Pre-K screening for Jaylen. Plus normal stuff, like an evening meeting tomorrow. And I need someone to watch my children. But all of my normal baby watchers are out of commission for tomorrow. ALL of them. (We’re talking about four different people here.) Loveliness, right? lol. Such is life.

- It’s now bedtime and the room is still a disaster area. You can like see the carpet now and you might not kill yourself when you walk from one end to the other (though that is still entirely possible), but guess what will be going on all week now? Yeah. Cleaning. I was really hoping that this could be wrapped by now, but no such luck. We’re supposed to have two other six-year-olds spent the night Friday.

Okay. Now I have to write to make up for the time I will not be in the office in the morning. Hopefully the next time you’ll hear from me, I’ll be a “Miss” instead of a “Mrs.” Ha. I’ll update Twitter first, probably. You can check my sidebar (over there to the right, under Twitter Updates) or my Twitter profile itself. See ya later!

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