uh, the summer.... SUCK!

SO, i hate summer vacations. okay, maybe i should clarify. i hate MY KIDS summer vacations. i used to love MY summer vaca of course. but i also could easily entertain myself. not so with my children. it hasn't even been a full two weeks yet and already the whining, complaining, meltdowns, fights and the dreaded "i'm bored" have begun. really? UH. it doesn't help that it's been raining nearly every day or that elise is grounded AGAIN. (yea, that baptism thing sure really helped her out look on being better.) today is the first day that my kids have actually sat and watched more than one tv show in a row. i just have to say to those people who say that tv is terrible for kids, you NEVER had kids who refused to watch it. i'm not in favor of a kid watching telly all day long, but when you just need one minute of calm a television can be a most prized possession. but of course that's not my children. no, they would rather run around...then go and jump on the trampoline...then run around....then jump on the couch onto the coffee table...then run around...then run downstairs to play for a whole 5 minutes...then run upstairs to play for an even shorter amount of time...then run down stairs to jump in front of me whining about being bored. have i mentioned i'm going CRAZY? that's probably why this post is so hap-hazard and hardly making sense. i originally had it planned that michelle would be in school for the summer so that i would at least only have two children to deal with in the morning but the crappy school decided for the first time EVER to close for the summer. yeah, that's a whole other post. now, i've resorted to going to the gym 5 mornings a week to work out and avoid my children for an hour which isn't necessarily a bad thing since i've been trying to get back into shape and especially been working harder now that i only have a week left to try and attempt to look hot for my husband on our anniversary. in fact, my kids are going on an extra long walk with me this mid-morning in the RAIN so that i can get my work out in and to get them exhausted so that maybe i can have some sort of quiet time this afternoon. maybe some of you hermit mothers (like unto myself) would like to schedule some play dates this summer. you know, to help one another from literally tearing out either our eyebrows or hair strands from our heads. let me know... soon. i don't think i'll make it much longer.