The kids are out of school today due to Inclement Weather. Do I sound like a broken record? Did you accidentally click on a link from last week? Nope, we're at it again. I don't think it was as bad this week, I think they're just gun shy now. It did sleet last night and the roads were covered with ice this morning, but I think some of it has melted by now. Technically I don't know because I haven't left the house, but I heard it's not bad.
We are going to go out as soon as Amanda wakes up from her nap. With all the weather days last week we didn't go anywhere and then Charlie's brother and nephew came into town for the Super Bowl and Charlie was hosting partners at the Super Bowl and we were just crazy busy this weekend. I kind of forgot about Sarah's Valentine's party. Okay, that's not really what happened. I remembered the party, I just forgot that we actually had to bring valentines to give to the other kids at the party. So we have to go to Target to pick up some Tinkerbell or Princess or other fancy girly cards and a bit of candy to tack on. Fun.
Speaking of Valentine's Day, last night I took the kids to get their pictures taken for the great holiday of love. I only take them to get pictures three times a year - Valentine's, Father's Day and Halloween. I'll take Sarah for her fifth birthday and Amanda for her yearly birthday (until five) as well, but only those three times with all three kids together.
I would compare taking my kids to get their picture taken with child birth. It is a horrible experience, something you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, yet somehow over time you forget how bad it is and decide it's worth trying again. Only to remember, too late, that you swore you'd never do it again. I'm pretty sure I wrote a post around Halloween about how horrible it was to take them for pictures. I completely forgot that experience because I have this adorable picture of my kids sitting in my kitchen office. Oh, I should do that again? No. No. No.
The big problem these days is that I can't get all three of them together until late in the day. Or the weekend, which I refuse to do. So it's late in the day, when they are hungry and tired and don't feel like cooperating. This time Andy was a dream. He was so helpful and did everything we asked and then some. The kid is starting to grow on me. Amanda was the typical baby. Afraid of the photographer but willing to warm up if you give her a chance. This time Sarah was the nightmare. She didn't want to help, she didn't want to do anything we asked, she just wanted to do what she wanted to do. By the end of the session I was so done with her. One of the ladies in the lobby told me I seemed very calm. That's because if I didn't stay calm I would have really lost it. I wasn't calm, I was tuned out for the safety of my children.
In a couple of years I'm sure they will all behave, but the pictures aren't going to be as cute then. Hopefully just as I do every few months, I will erase these memories and go back and do it all over again. One of these times the kids will surprise me and they will all be wonderful, but then there will be so many good shots I won't know what to pick. Hmm, maybe it is better, at least for my check book, when they don't cooperate.
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