This is the chore system used by the Dilley family (sextuplets – eek!). I think that what I am developing over here is very similar. I just can’t find anything to motivate Tommy to participate.

I finally muddled my way through all the end-of-the-year Girl Scout paperwork. Now I just neeed to get it in the mail in the morning or drop it off at council. Noah had a friend over all day and is now moping because his friend had to go home. Tommy spent the day napping (again). […]

Made some slight revisions on the summer payment/fees chart so it looks more clearly like they make money if they do it and they lose money if they don’t do it. Tommy is still unmotivated to do anything but sleep and eat. I have GOT to find a way to get him out of the […]

I had a telephone “chat” with the VBS director yesterday about her 3-page application form. She basically called me a bad mother (“I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to have the people your children come in contact with carefully screened and monitored.”) and let me know that while I was welcome to serve cookies […]

Fandangoed (I know it’s not a word) our Harry Potter tickets for Friday.

Dropped the camera off for Alice. FC is an interesting place. Most of the teens there are wards of the state and have lived their entire life being shuttled from group home to group home. With no family, they often end up making their own families very early in their lives. Imagine having no family. […]

No time to blog this morning. I have to drop a camera off at the local home for pregnant teens. You’d think that would require an explanation wouldn’t you?

While I washed the dishes Amy toddled about happily and I was startled out of my skin when I heard Sarah scream “Moooooom!” While Sarah was playing with her nail polish (painting designs on styrofoam sheets) Amy helped herself to Sarah’s lipgloss. Amy had pink goo from her toes to her hair. I plopped her […]

Naked toddler with leaky sippy cup (I’m still searching for the perfect sippy cup) left a puddle on the floor. Is it apple juice or pee? I’m not even going to try and find out.

My mother’s Graves Disease is worse than before her radiation. I don’t know if she’ll get more radiation or end up having surgery. My grandmother, her mother, was just taken back to the hospital. She no longer recognizes anyone and can’t feed herself or do anything. She has become vegetative so rapidly that even the […]