updates

It again has been a long time since I wrote. Over the weekend, the boys had a race so that is why I didn't write then. I guess I'm going to take tonight to update everything that I have written about. First off, everything in the house is completed except the two bathrooms. We have been waiting for the plumber to return and he is going to finish everything by this Friday. Hopefully we will be able to have the tile done and use the bathrooms by next Monday. Above is a picture of my new tile in the kitchen. Tomorrow I'll be downloading a lot of pictures so I guess there will be more updates.

Big Son got punished for his episode at school. The kid didn't say anything but Husband and I felt that he needed have some sort of hardship for using violence. Of course, since we were going to be away for 4 days it was hard to come up with a punishment. What we decided was that he had to call his friends and disinvite them over for the days they have off from school the Friday before and Monday after Easter. This caused a screaming episode from him. We also took PlayStation away for a week. He didn't understand why he was getting punished for "sticking up" for himself when husband and I are always telling him to do so. I had to explain that he could have done it other ways besides punching. I told him next time someone picks on him for no reason to turn it around on the person. I told him he has no problem saying something obnoxious to husband, his brother, or I when he doesn't like what we say, so do the same thing to whoever picks on him. Plus, on the side, I told him to never punch first. I probably shouldn't have said that, but I had to give him something. I also called his guidance counsler at school and told her what happended. She seemed surprised that he did something like that.

I'm now trying to figure out what to do for the boys Easter baskets. I hate spending the money on things that they will only use on Easter and never touch afterwards. I bought somethings from the $1 store today because I really don't care if they only last the day. It is getting disappointing for me now becuase they are outgrowing alot of the items they would usually get, but get angry if they don't get the paddle balls or yoyos or foam rockets.

Well, tomorrow there will be a lot of pictures uploaded on the blog. The boys did good. Big Son finished 3rd, 5th, 2nd, and 10th; Little son finsihed 1st and 4th. We race again in NC the weekend of 4/11.