That's All She Wrote

I think I'm ready for summer to be over. No, that's not right. I NEED summer to be over. Between Amanda not wanting to do anything I ask and the other two being, well, themselves, I just don't have anything left in me. I'm not the only one, I met up with two friends today who are counting down the days until school starts. A lot of it has to do with the fact that it's been over 100 degrees for over three weeks, but honestly that hasn't impacted us too much because we've been gone and missed a lot of that. When we are here, however, we can't really go outside. We could, but it's not fun. At all.

There isn't one single incident that pushed me over the top, it's just a lot of time spent together and an overwhelming feeling that the kids don't appreciate anything I do for them. I lost it with Sarah and Amanda today on the way home from Andy's gymnastics class. They are always too loud, I can never bring enough for them to do, and they always ask for food or a drink or something I don't have with me and then whine incessantly about it until we get home and they can put it into their greedy little mouths. Today was no different.

I was so frustrated with them I told them that I'm not taking them anywhere to do anything for the rest of the summer. Oh, Charlie is shaking his head right now as he reads this because he knows I shouldn't have said any of this. Don't make statements about things you can't follow up on. No Chick-fil-A, no McDonald's, no bounce houses, no roller skating, nothing that I have to pay for for the next three weeks. We can sit in the house and rot, and every time they say they are bored I will have a wonderful answer for why we aren't doing anything. I just have to think of it.

On top of that, I told Sarah that next week she and Amanda can't come to Andy's gymnastics and they were going to have to pay for the babysitter. I've already lined it up. She is not excited about that at all, but hopefully it will teach her a lesson. If not, I will at least get an hour to myself and it won't cost me anything.