The Daily Toilings Of A Part Time Stay At Home Mom

We have a slight dandelion situation in my yard.  I offered to pay Noah 5 cents for every dandelion he plucked.  I soon went broke and called off the deal.  Bella on the other hand decided that instead of cashing her dandelions in she would eat them.  Good thing I saw them at the grocery store the other day and now know that someone got so angry at those bastardly things one day that they decided to eat them...and they didn't die.  Now they cost 2.99 a bunch at Market Basket.  I think I just found my work from home job...I will sell dandelion greens.  Not.  I want them poisoned as soon as I have enough money for Scott to come over and do the job. So when child labor wasn't going to work out I fixed the problem with a good mow.  I LOVE mowing the lawn.  There is something so soothing about the predictability, the back and forth, the instant gratification of your hard work, the smell of cut grass, the sound of a lawnmower drowni...

Tonight I contemplated posting at all since my mind has been dwelling in the deepest and darkest chasms today and I was terrified of what I might say.  But since dinner has been completed, children have been bathed, and I got a new clothes line installed I am feeling a bit brighter...the glass of vino didn't hurt either. This weekend we hit up a couple of the nearby flea markets.  One thing that I hate about venturing out with your children in this Spring weather is that I am never sure how to dress them.  Saturday morning, bright beautiful sunshine, news forecasting temps in the 70's.  Great!  Get the kids dressed, Bell in some lightweight pants and t-shirt, Noah in a T-shirt and shorts.  We get to the market and of course it is like 55 and friggin freezing.  Now if you are a mom you know what happens next.  Not only do you feel terrible but everyone and their brother is blabbering on..."Oh you must be cold honey" "Shorts...oh boy" b...