Today was a great day. We had no real plans, but cleaning the house. My mom had her ideas of how and what needed to be done and sense we tend to but heads on things like that I thought for the benefit of all of us I should take the kids and jet. We were able to get the kids and ourselves out of my moms hair.
Eric took Logan to his friend Dane's house. The men folk played and wrestled and played video games all day. I took Ava and Beckett to the mall to meet up with some awesome mama's that are into babywearing and such. It was great. I had a great time with the other moms. It makes me realize how much I need to put in the time to cultivate new relationships. I am not the best at that. I need people that will almost force themselves into my life. I just have so much going on. I am also not willing to scarifice the time my kids deserve to have with me. I know that everyone says that we deserve time for us but I didn't have kids for them to grow up with out me in their life. They are in school so much of the week and I work and have school. Its so hard to balnce it all.
That was not where I thought I was heading with this. Ava was amazing at the mall. I felt like such a proud mama. Ava watched out for her baby brother at the mallplayground. A newly walking baby could easily get lost in those playgrounds. Ava was protective and sweet to him without me having to ask her. She then made sure that she got a sucker from the candy kiosk for her big brother. The lady offers her a sucker and she lloks up at him and says "You know I have a big brother too, he likes suckers!" It was so sweet and cute. She then just says thank you! We walked around the mall and she was fantastic. She stayed near me and didn't whine once!!! It was amazing. We went home and helped clean. Ava dusted everything while I cleaned the downstairs bathroom.
Does anyone else think it ended up like a throwback to sexism that the girls went to the mall and cleaned while the boys stayed out and played all day. I was cleaning the floor around the toilet that my Logan seems to pee on everyday. I am going to start making him clean the floor after he pees. I know he can aim, i have seen it but he looks around and his pee moves with his head. So he played while I was on my knees scrubbing the floors. So Logan is going to have to clean up his own pee and I paid Ava for her cleaning. I figured if I paid her it would make it feel less sexist. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I will spend the day thinking of what I am thankful for and planning my black Friday attack plan.
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