Well back to school time gives me mixed feelings - on one hand I get the joy of sending them off and enjoying a peaceful house, one that is conducive to work. On the other hand back to school brings me closer to the poor house. See in my house we have what I like to call "ticket shoppers" now before you think wow that's great her kids care about prices, think again, some of them are simply the opposite, they want what costs the most. The other day we took Brendan and Logan school shopping, they came because they had to try on pants and their sneakers. We went to Old Navy where they were having a great sale on jeans. So we were able to buy outfits - shirt and pants for $15. And we went to the sporting goods store for their sneakers, Logan knew exactly what ones he wanted, which he was going to have no matter what the cost, luckily they were only $35. They were the easy ones. Today we took the girls shopping and I am getting my migraine headache back just reliving it. Amanda would look at the price tag first just to decide if she liked say a pair of jeans, if they were not at least $30 she did not like them. At the sporting goods store, they had many, many sneakers, she only liked the ones that cost $69 and up, all the others no matter how great they were she did not like them. Even if they were an $89 pair on sale for $50, she would not do it, we would actually have to shell out the money. So an hour and a half later we finally had sneakers for all three girls.
Oh funny story, Dylan has a job as a dishwasher, he got it because the house he was working at doing landscaping was talking to their friends who own a restaurant and they needed a hard worker. So the owner of the restaurant who we did not know showed up in our driveway asking if Dylan would like a job. They only problem was that Dylan never had any intention of getting a job, so he was a little unsure at first. I am sure once he gets his first check he will like it.
So Dylan also went back to the doctors who cleared him for drilling in wrestling practice and weight lifting so our lives have been back down at the club, which by the way has been like a sauna the past few days. So at least 3 nights a week we are at the club from 530 till 830 and we eat dinner very late.
This is a blog about living with 9 kids, a fabulous husband, 1 dog and 3 cats. With so many family members we have lots of fun. To make things interesting I have become a coupon junky. Our children all wrestle even the three girls. Our children range in age from 7 to 22. One of our children is vision impaired but gifted; one has a heart defect; and the youngest is allergic to the cold. I am disabled so playing mom is sometimes passed off to dad.
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