This Week at Our House #14

1. John may have a job by the end of this week. A company has contacted him and have told him they are planning on making him an offer. But he has to go in for one more interview. So I am hoping, this will be the job. John has done a fabulous job of looking for the roses among the thorns during this period of unemployment. He has really enjoyed his time off and has spent much of his time just hanging out with me and the kids. He's also napped a lot. We will miss him when he goes back to work. 
2. My week was quiet and easy going. Hurray! It is nice to have a normal/no extras week every once in a while. We did a crazy thing this week. We got a dog. The dog was a really good dog. Really, she was my perfect dream dog. But the night we got her, John and I just felt like we had done something crazy. So we sold her off to someone else the very next day. My kids got to have the perfect dog for one day. She was a 1.5 year old boxer who was house trained and let the kids wrestle and snuggle her as much as they wanted.She only cost $50 too. She wanted people around her constantly and that was not a problem. The idea of keeping her scared John and I too much. So we didn't. Maybe we will try again when I know I am done having babies. I just couldn't imagine myself walking a dog pregnant in the middle of winter. I doubt we'll find such a perfect deal again. 
3. Ruth cried and complained Friday afternoon because she had a bad day at school and it took me a long time to find the address of the birthday party Ruth and Kate were invited to. As a child, Ruth did not like rambunctious boys. She still doesn't. Ruth has a bad day if the boys at school are obnoxious.
4. Kate cried about John teaching her how to figure out sine and cosine without a calculator. I still need him to show me that. Kate came to me with the same math problem and I told her to use the Pythagorean theorem. Math problems is a huge plus to having John home.
5. When I told Johnny to take his math test, he yelled at me and said that it was not fair because I was not making myself take the math test. Huh, I already did all that math stuff years ago. Later in the week, however, Johnny helped me a ton in cleaning up our very dirty garage. I am so glad that he did. His help was invaluable and it was fun to have him hanging out with me.
6. Adam love, loved , loved and actually did an incredible job training the dog the 24 hours we had her. I am still second guessing the not keeping her. Adam actually got her leashed trained before we handed her off to a new owner. When we got her, she would only be dragged on the leash. Adam spent about 4 hours walking her around until she just did it completely. 
7. Rachel begged and begged me to keep the dog. I told her we weren't. She said, "will you at least pray about it?" I told her I was sure that Dad had prayed a lot about it. She then said, "Oh good. Now we will keep her."
8. Okay, Anya is a very emotional 5 year old. She had her best friend Gracie over to play the day we had the dog. Gracie wanted to play with the dog. Anya did not want to. Anya grabbed onto Gracie bawling and telling her what to do. I put Anya in time out until "She could be a good friend". Gracie went upstairs to play with her sister, Hannah, and Rachel. When Anya was ready to go and be a good friend she went up to play. Gracie kept telling Anya she was boring and didn't like to play with her. So Anya pretended to go to sleep and told Gracie that whenever she said a mean thing, it just made her sleep. Rachel and Hannah left because they said, "our sisters are annoying," and went to Hannah's house. Anya and Gracie continued to fight for a while until they decided they needed a snack. I got them a snack and suddenly they were happy and best friends once again.
9. This week, I made a huge effort to read and play with Joseph everyday. And guess what? He didn't wet his pants and he didn't destroy anything. He still wrote on the walls some. But at least now, I know what he needs. He needs me. I had just decided that I wasn't doing house work until I played with Joseph and Anya. Joseph has requested the dinosaur museum this week, and we have a family pass! So tomorrow morning, we will pack a lunch and head off to the museum before I do my usual 8 loads of Monday laundry.
10. Josh came crying to me asking for cars. It took a minute, but I realized that he wanted to watch race cars on TV. Everyone else was already watching Dr. Who. I said, "Just go watch Dr. Who." Josh replied, "Who poop!" He's so funny!
11. There's not much to say about Arwen this week. She did eat guacamole which surprised me because she will not eat avocados. I guess she just needed a little salt, lime, and garlic added to them.

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