I realized that I haven't posted in forever!

Let's see...school started, and then Kayle started COCC a few weeks ago, and then had the nerve to turn EIGHTEEN! I'm still all sorts of freaked out about that, because there is no possibly way I am old enough to have a child that is legally an adult. 

I have two dozen pumpkins scattered on my front and back porches, because MIL came out this weekend with the entire back end of her gigantic truck full of them.

Kayle gets her wisdom teeth out Friday, and since she is very manlike (meaning whiny and needy) in her misery, I hope they really drug her up good for a few days.

The biggest thing causing all sorts of scheduling chaos lately, is that at the end of September I went back to work for the first time in over a decade.  It's part time at Linens & Things, which I wasn't sure I'd like, but I really do. The downside is that part time is turning out to e 35 hours a week until we have more people and the holidays go away. My house is trashed, which is very unlike me. I come home and put on sweats, which is also very unlike me. The other huge downside is that I now have a HUGE list of things I want to buy...soft fuzzy towels, candles, bedding, and cooking gadgets. I hate cooking, so why on earth am I lusting after really cool lemon zesters?

My favorite part is helping the little old ladies. I have no idea why, but they always crack me up.

In another week or so we have our Friends and Family discount thingy...25% off everything, so if anyone wants a coupon, let me know. I can send them out by email.

Ok, I'm off to catch up on laundry, sweeping, dusting, feeding the boys...all the things I haven't managed in weeks!

Sometimes 5 year olds decide that they can do something on their own and shouldn't bother their mommy.

In some cases this is a good quality: cleaning up their toys, putting their dishes in the dishwasher, etc.

At other times this is very bad: driving a car, using a chainsaw, cutting their own hair after getting sticky tack stuck in it comes to mind.

K gave J a PETA poster with a row of cute, little chicks all lined up saying "We are not nuggets. Please don't eat us." J knows that he isn't allowed to put tacks in his wall, so he swiped some sticky tack to put up the poster. He only used a tiny bit, and then he stuck the rest in his hair. Since I am no longer 5, I can't tell you why he did that. He stuck it right at the back of the top of his head in the middle of his cowlick, because you know that was the very best place to stick some sticky tack when one wishes to stick sticky tack in their hair.

Instead of telling me that his hair was sticky, he tried to comb it out. That didn't work, and he's not allowed to touch the clippers, so he grabbed the scissors and chopped out the sticky hair. On a kid with a buzz cut, that probably wouldn't have been very noticeable, but we keep J's hair on the longish side. He now has this section of hair about 2 inches by 1 inch that is only half an inch long.

I didn't notice at first. He knew had done something he was not supposed to do, so he stayed away from me. R noticed several 4 inch clumps of hair on the floor. He thought I was shedding, but I don't shed in clumps, and my hair is nearly to the middle of my back. I've never noticed 4 inch clumps coming off of my head, and I think I would have noticed something like that.

There is no possible way I can fix J's hair. He won't let me near him with clippers, and I'm not dumb enough to think I can give him a good scissor cut. We'll be letting the professionals handle this disaster.