The Best Laid Plans...

Something that is not at all news to me, but may be news to you all, is that my dear sweet husband underestimates the time it takes to do things... by a lot. All the time. Like, always. I'm completely used to it, so when he planned to have the roof pulled off & put back on in about a day, I nodded & smiled, but secretly tripled that in my head. Funny thing is, he's always surprised that he wasn't all that accurate. ;) lol Anyway, we were able to get most of the roof off in one day, but the last little bits took another day (they were really really stuck). And then I had to work the next three days, so he lost his "call 911 if I fall off the roof" person and had to stop. So we still have no roof, but hopefully will at least get the felt rolled this weekend. (There was metal underneath, so it's at least as protective for now as it was at first). Snow should be coming to the mountains this weekend, and people here tell me that that means it will be here in the valley in about 6 weeks. That means we have six weeks to get the roof done, the siding replaced, and new windows in or we're screwed! :S We'll see how this goes! lol

So I've never been the kind of person to hide things about myself from most people. You could call me an open book. So please understand that what I'm about to tell you is really embarrassing! To the point where I almost didn't share it. But, it makes for a good blog entry, so I will. But promise you won't judge ok? lol Let's just say it's a not-so-mighty-mom moment...

Okay. So I just told you that I have been at work for the last three days. Mathew doesn't want to go a single day without doing at least something on the house, so even though he wasn't able to do the roof while I was gone, he did go there while I was at work and get other things cleaned up, planned out, torn out, etc. So seeing as it's gorgeous outside here lately, he naively allowed the kids to play outside while he worked.

Well,

One of the things that bothered us about our life in Kansas, was that our kids were slowly turning into wild animals before our eyes. We didn't live in a neighborhood, we lived on 120 acres. So the kids could run around as much as they wanted & it wasn't a big deal. They didn't learn common sense rules especially well, like keeping your volume down around others and their homes, & maybe watching out for cars while in a parking lot or crossing the street. See where I'm going with this??? Ugh.

So right across the street from the house is a restaurant. The house that was next to ours was recently knocked down & has become the parking lot for said restaurant. Well, apparently the kids were playing in the parking lot while Matt was in the house unaware of what they were up to. I'm not sure what they were doing, but apparently they were being so rowdy that one older woman (well intentioned I'm sure) thought they must be unattended by an adult and called the police!!!

OMG the police were called on my obnoxious kids!!!!!!!

(Hanging head in shame).

The officer came & spoke to Mathew. Didn't give him any kind of ticket or anything (not really sure what kind of citation that would be, but anyway) but he did take down his name & number. Now we're freaking out that we're going to be in the town newspaper! Seriously! Everything is in this town's paper! There was actually a police report in the newspaper that someone filed a claim that their Huggies were stolen from their house! lol It could totally happen! How embarrassing!!! To her defense, the house has been vacant for a very long time, and I'm sure she had no idea that any kids had any business playing around it. And Mathew wasn't in view, but still!! OMG!

We've been trying to teach the boys to become civilized human beings again, but apparently when our backs are turned there are no holds barred. Holy cow. No idea what to do with them at this point other than take every privilege away known to man.

Anyway, if any of my readers are mothers (which most of you are), I'm sure you'll understand what I mean when I say I feel like a complete failure as a parent right now. I wasn't even there, but I'm totally blaming myself for not teaching them well enough how to behave in public. I swear, I used to get compliments from strangers at how good my kids were. Now I hang my head & hope there's no one around that I know! lol We're trying really hard, and I know that the life we had to lead this past year and a half did not help things in the slightest bit. It'll take time to get them to be the great kids I know they are again. But I'm really hoping it'll be sooner than later. And I'm really praying that at least they're decent to their teachers! :/