Seven
Ahhh.. Feeling much better now.
Bug, Geo and I went to the mall on Saturday. Going to the mall is a half day thing, because it takes 1 1/2 to get there. Plus, we had these gift cards for a restaurant which is not available here in our crappy small town. Bug ate the steak and crab legs. And then tried to take a crab claw home. And then got very mad that she wasn’t allowed. She was also quite mad that the mall didn’t have stores that she wanted and threw a fit.
I didn’t throw a fit, because I got some very cute panties and a bunch of clothes that were 70% off. I love me a good bargain.
Geo didn’t throw a fit either, because he found two pairs of 32 X 36 pants, which you can never find in the store. And he was so happy about finding them, and on sale! that he bought me a sweatshirt that has this heavy lining inside and it so warm (because I am always freezing) and a snuggly long sleeve shirt.
But Bug threw a fit because that is what Bug does now. She throws fits and argues. About everything. It doesn’t matter what it is. Part of her problem is that she asks for things at ridiculous times. Like, I’ll be reprimanding her for not doing her chore correctly and she’ll interrupt me to ask if she can have an ice cream bar. Or we’ll be driving in the middle of a cotton field somewhere and the radio station she wants to listen to will not be coming in correctly and she’ll start sobbing that we are so mean to not let her listen to what she wants.
When she is not throwing fits, she’ll be just generally making a pest of herself. If Geo eats over here, he and Bug do 10 minutes in the kitchen. Today I went in the laundry room and when I came out Bug was missing. Apparently Geo had tossed her a sponge. She thought he had thrown it at her, so she scooped up a big handful of soapy water and threw it at him.
He was slightly unamused.
It is in times like this weekend that sometimes I question my decision to add kids to the household. I mean don’t get me wrong. I love my Buggy to death. But when I’m trying to take a shower and there is a heated discussion going on through the door about whether she can google parts of the body for her science extra credit because she didn’t bring her science book home because “she didn’t feel like it or maybe she forgot” then I think that more kids would be nuts.
But nevertheless, more kids it will be.
When? I don’t know.
I went through my first week since I’ve been licensed with no calls. However, I do have my homestudy out on three sibling groups.
Sibling group 1..the latest I’ve heard is that they are going to staffing sometime in January. I don’t know when. The other two groups are collecting homestudies almost to the end of January. I guess I could get called on sibling group 1 at any point, but I don’t know what my chance are or anything.
I also don’t know what would happen if I got picked for two groups. I think that one will get picked before another. I don’t think they allow you to take two groups at once, although I don’t know for sure. That might be a little…um..intense.
Until then, I just tell Geo I want seven kids.
And he says, “Seven?”
And I say, “You like kids, Geo.”
and he says, “Yes, but seven?”
And then I sing, “Climb every mountain” in a beautiful voice.
And Bug says, “I am NOT climbing a mountain. I don’t want to climb a mountain. Why don you always make me do things I don’t want to do??!!” and then bursts into fake tears.
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January 8th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Sorry Bug has been in an argumentative mode lately. Any ideas what’s behind it? Testing her boundaries? ODD-related? Or just being a pre-teen?
Good luck with the upcoming kids. Lord knows I suck at getting matched with a kid, so I won’t give any advice!
January 8th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
At first I laughed at that last paragraph, and thought gee she sounds just like me when I have PMS.
And then the light dawned.
Could this be the beginning of puberty? There are more mood swings in tween girls with ADD. For many this is the point where they finally get diagnosed. She may not get her period for awhile, and no, changing ADD meds won’t help at all, but I suspect extra kids or no, life is about to get very interesting at the BDH.
January 8th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Finding clothes at a discount always lifts spirits. It does sound like Bug is giving you a run for you money!
January 8th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
My father’s one of seven, and although they certainly have their idiot moments, they all seemed to survive it pretty well! I say go for it!
And that last line? deeeelightful (if only because I’m not living it, I’m sure)
January 8th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
i empathize with geo and the pants–i was a 30/34 or a 30/36 and they don’t even make that at most stores. luckily (?) i gained some weight and am now a 32/34 or a 32/36…
January 8th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I’m the youngest of 6 and once I had kids I constantly questioned my mom about how she did it all. She told me it’s easier if they are more than 4 months apart. Ah….so that’s what I did wrong. LOL
January 8th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I could be talking out of my ass, but wasn’t the last time Bug got really difficult due to the fact that she had been pretending to take her meds but instead had just been hiding them?
If not, then I suspect puberty may be kicking in… I’m afraid you may be in for another four years of this behaviour. XP
January 8th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
ok, no even if bug acted like one of the Osmonds, 7 would have me shaking in my undies
January 9th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
me too. Quaking in my undies. I am afraid of ONE, would like to have two eventually, and three would probably be my limit unless the sky opened and dumped these kids on me out of no doing of my own, and I couldn’t give them up. Reading Gawdessness’s trials with adding a sibling group, and she is an experienced mom, and has another adult breadwinner/support is enough for me. But you took to the fostering with the sibling group like a duck to water before, so what the hey. go for it.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Could it be…hormones?
AHHH! Puberty!
January 12th, 2007 at 1:29 am
I was going to ask the puberty question as well, but I see that everyone beat me to it…LOL Good luck with whatever is going on with the little Buggy; my thoughts are with ya.