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We didn't do much today. Gene went to work, I hung around the house with the kids, trying to get them to clean and organize.
It feels like half our summer has been spent on trying to get the kids to help clean the house, and the resulting tantrums. The kids will whine and cry and scream and even at times become destructive, throwing pencils or ripping up things that they've written or created. This might be over something as simple as a request to sort their shoes, or put away laundry, or clear dishes from the table. It's so ridiculous. The kids think they should never have to do any chores, and that the "point of summer" is "to be lazy." Super frustrating. They also refuse to let me teach them anything, like musical instruments, or languages, or...well, pretty much anything. How are they ever going to becoming functioning human beings?!
This evening I went to another half hour SVJP photo shoot. Nothing exciting this time. No Masi Oka. But it's good I wrote this journal entry, because it has reminded me that I need to have my check mailed, because the woman at the meetings who usually gives me the check was seated at the front of the room, so it would've been disruptive to ask her for it when I was leaving, with an audience of people. When I emailed my client just now, I discovered a nice feature of Gmail's: When you email someone and mention within the email that you're sending an attachment, but then forget to attach the file, Gmail sends an alert when you hit "send" to point out that you haven't attached a file, and give you the opportunity to do so before sending. That's helpful!
I'm getting sleepy. My eyes are droopy with sleep, which is weird because a half hour ago I felt wide awake. Now I can't stop thinking about drinking coffee tomorrow. Mmm. Coffee.
Let's see, what else did we do today? Oh, I walked the kids over to Henry Ford and threw the frisbee a few times before we walked back to I go leave for my photo shoot.
Gene and I got in a minor argument over furniture arranging this morning (such a boring adult thing). I was upset because it felt like he was being controlling - when I told him I didn't want to talk right now, he said that was unacceptable - something we say to the kids. He was on his way out the door, so we didn't pursue the conversation, and it was fine.
We were supposed to go hiking with Trina in the morning, but she came down with some sort of sore throat illness, so that was unfortunate. I hope to do actual fun stuff with the kids tomorrow, something other than just making them clean all day. If they'd just get the cleaning out of the way I'd be happy to do fun stuff for the rest of the day! They just don't get it. Sigh. Maybe we can check out the food trucks at Hiller Aviation Museum.
ETA: I just remembered that food trucks were TODAY. I wonder if there's a Thursday Off The Grid food truck gathering anywhere nearby...clearly I am writing while hungry.
It feels like half our summer has been spent on trying to get the kids to help clean the house, and the resulting tantrums. The kids will whine and cry and scream and even at times become destructive, throwing pencils or ripping up things that they've written or created. This might be over something as simple as a request to sort their shoes, or put away laundry, or clear dishes from the table. It's so ridiculous. The kids think they should never have to do any chores, and that the "point of summer" is "to be lazy." Super frustrating. They also refuse to let me teach them anything, like musical instruments, or languages, or...well, pretty much anything. How are they ever going to becoming functioning human beings?!
This evening I went to another half hour SVJP photo shoot. Nothing exciting this time. No Masi Oka. But it's good I wrote this journal entry, because it has reminded me that I need to have my check mailed, because the woman at the meetings who usually gives me the check was seated at the front of the room, so it would've been disruptive to ask her for it when I was leaving, with an audience of people. When I emailed my client just now, I discovered a nice feature of Gmail's: When you email someone and mention within the email that you're sending an attachment, but then forget to attach the file, Gmail sends an alert when you hit "send" to point out that you haven't attached a file, and give you the opportunity to do so before sending. That's helpful!
I'm getting sleepy. My eyes are droopy with sleep, which is weird because a half hour ago I felt wide awake. Now I can't stop thinking about drinking coffee tomorrow. Mmm. Coffee.
Let's see, what else did we do today? Oh, I walked the kids over to Henry Ford and threw the frisbee a few times before we walked back to I go leave for my photo shoot.
Gene and I got in a minor argument over furniture arranging this morning (such a boring adult thing). I was upset because it felt like he was being controlling - when I told him I didn't want to talk right now, he said that was unacceptable - something we say to the kids. He was on his way out the door, so we didn't pursue the conversation, and it was fine.
We were supposed to go hiking with Trina in the morning, but she came down with some sort of sore throat illness, so that was unfortunate. I hope to do actual fun stuff with the kids tomorrow, something other than just making them clean all day. If they'd just get the cleaning out of the way I'd be happy to do fun stuff for the rest of the day! They just don't get it. Sigh. Maybe we can check out the food trucks at Hiller Aviation Museum.
ETA: I just remembered that food trucks were TODAY. I wonder if there's a Thursday Off The Grid food truck gathering anywhere nearby...clearly I am writing while hungry.