I'll Do It Mom!

These past 2 months I have been some what of a witch. I'm tired a lot, and when I'm tired I tend to yell. Terina says I yell too much and I know she's right. I know that being pregnant is no excuse for being mean to my husband and my daughter but sometimes I just can't handle all three of them.

One thing that we decided to do is have Terina help out more around the house. She gets .25 for doing certain jobs and sometimes she can earn more than that depending on how big the job is. It's really helped me a lot. I'm not yelling as much as I was before because I'm not having to do everything! If there is something that needs done or Terina could help me with I just ask her if she would like to earn some money. I don't give her the money right away but we keep track of it and when she earns enough to buy whatever it is she is wanting we'll go to Walmart and she'll be able to buy it with her own money. She's earned only 1 thing so far and that was a Moon Dough Farm that she just loves. It's a little messy so she can't play with it unless I'm helping her but it cleans up easier than play dough and it doesn't dry out.

Anyways... Where was I going with this? Oh yeah! She's been helping me out so much around the house now! On Thursday I needed to put in some work orders for our apartment but I needed to clean it first. It really sucked because I ended up throwing up my lunch but I knew that I still had to clean. So she helped me clean the bathroom. She scrubbed the tub, took out the laundry and wiped the sink down. Then I lost her for a while but that was fine. She was keeping herself busy with her Leapster. She came back as I was on my hands and knees scrubbing the bathroom and hallway floor. She said that I looked tired and that she'd do it for 65 quarters. :) I talked her down to 12 quarters and she grabbed a towel and started to dry the floor behind me. I guess she got bored with that because when I turned around she was scrubbing the doors and floor boards for me. And then I gave her the scrub brush and told her to scrub the floor in front of me...she was the pre-washer. She was so helpful and she was so happy to do it.

Today I mentioned that we needed to do laundry. Of course we didn't get to it this afternoon and went to Food Fest with a friend this evening. We got home after 8pm and while I was in the bathroom I heard her out in the hall talking to herself. When I came out I started to cry. She had dumped out the laundry in the hallway and was starting to sort it. She divided all the whites already and was working on the colors and towels. She ran into the bathroom and got the laundry off the floor, put it in the right pile and then started to load it in the basket. She said that we still needed to do laundry and that she wanted to do it. So... I got the laundry card, loaded the basket and soap into the stroller and walked with her to the laundry where she actually did the laundry! She put the soap in, ran the water, loaded up the laundry and pushed the stroller back home. Then we ran to Foodland and on the way back she told me to drop her at the laundry room so she could change the laundry. I unloaded the washers into the basket and she pushed it over to the dryers, loaded them, threw in like 10 dryer sheets and then started them. She wanted to walk home by herself but I convinced her to ride home with me :)

On the ride back home I asked her why she was so helpful today. She said "Mommy, I just wanted to help you so you wouldn't be grumpy and tired." I hate being grumpy. I hate yelling at my daughter. But I love her more than anything in this world. She's a very special girl with a special spirit. She was sent to our home for a reason. She brings so much laughter into our home and I am so thankful for her. I know that she's going to be a wonderful big sister and I am so glad that I can give her the 1 thing that I have always wanted....a sister of my very own. But for the nets 10 weeks before the baby comes it's gonna be just me and Rena.