I'm sitting here in a sea of papers about double deeded land, old Realtor flyers, tests to finish for my online class and cover letters for the job I need for next school year. Caed got up this morning begging to go to "his school" which doesn't start for almost 5 more months. I tried explaining that a few things needed to happen like, we needed to move, he needed to turn three and I needed a job. But as you can guess he just looked up at me with his big blue 2 year old eyes and said, but I want to go to school...

I tried offering playdoh or coloring, but he and his sister had other ideas, like climbing on the headboard of my bed and leaping off and jamming themselves into the end of the bed until they were stuck... which was fun until the panic of being stuck sunk in. So much for getting in a load of laundry, which was interrupted by screams for help.

As I went upstairs and thought to myself, "I'll just involve them in the chores... then no one will get hurt, trapped or otherwise hurt the house, themselves or any of the household animals..." (Last week I found them in the aquarium netting the fish and throwing out the decorations they didn't care for on one day, on another adding wads of toilet paper to it and on another setting the hermit crabs free, which the dogs later found and chewed up...) Anyway, as Ashlyn complained and acted incompetent in helping me take the sheets off of her bed, I saw Caed with his pants off. I knew he wasn't coming out of the bathroom, so I rushed to his room to check out the damage. Not only had he peed his pants... on the carpet... but he had dumped a huge box of k'nex parts on the floor and had been standing on them as he did so. I couldn't even make him clean it up because the pieces had to be sorted as to "dry and wet." He sat on the bed asking if he was "out of big trouble yet" while I sorted and grumbled. After washing the toys I thought, you know, it's about time I started writing this stuff down because, I don't think you could dream it all up.

And as I write this, I just remembered, that I really came up here to get the carpet cleaner, so I guess I better go take care of that, before the next entertaining moment of the day takes place.
I definitely think preschool will be good for these two munchkins next year, I guess all of this craziness lessons the guilt of going back to work.