The Snake Lady

Yesterday I took the boys to their Elementary school's annual book fair where 'The Snake Lady' comes with all of her snakes. My boys LOVE snakes. They definitely get it from their dad. He grew up with pet snakes and I'm sure we'll be the same.

It is so cool that this middle school teacher brings tons of her cool snakes to the school. Some of them are super big, too. Kobe and Luke went around and touched and held all the snakes. Jude was a little more hesitant and just stayed at my leg. We then searched through the crowded book fair for affordable books and were on our way.

Jakob was out of town this week and I have to pat myself on the back for all the things I am able to do without him. It's not easy, but look at me being a good mom and taking all four of my kids to see the snake lady all by myself. And then I took them for Slurpee's afterwards! Mindy, you are too, too much.

One thing I'm not so good at, though, is sleeping while Jakob is gone. I just freak myself out. On the final night I made a barricade by our sliding doors with all of our kitchen chairs. Then I gathered diaper boxes and laundry baskets and made a barricade in our hallway. Can you imagine what is going through my mind? What I think may happen? It is not a good place, I'll tell you what.

But, back to snakes. The boys have been wanting a pet snake for so long. They're asking for one for Christmas. Kobe says he wants a pet snake even more than a Wii. I want to get them a snake because I think it's a pretty easy pet to have. We'd have to invest in a top-of-the-line cage, though, because Jakob says their pet snakes would escape from their cages all of the time. I would die. They would also only be allowed to play with it when Jakob was with them because I could never and would never touch it. I'm not a snake gal.

I'm not sure if they'll get a snake for Christmas. I always wanted to be in a little bigger house before we got a snake so that there would be a safe place for the cage. But, it looks like this house is where we're supposed to be right now because nothing else is working out. I think I worded it wrong in a previous post, but we were looking to buy a house and rent out our current house. We've made 100 offers but nothing has worked out. I was depressed for a day and then I decided that if this is where we're supposed to be, then I'm going to make the best of it. We decided to get a storage unit and clear out our garage so that that can be more space for the boys to play in. And the garage will also act as my new craft room, which should be interesting. But I am determined to make the best of our situation.

Track off is coming to an end. I did pretty good on the no TV thing. This last week I was exhausted during the day from lack of sleep, so I let the TV be on while I was trying to nap. It was a very successful track off with a lot of playing outside in the beautiful September weather. I think we'll try the no TV thing every track off. I think it helped the feeling in our home and I think I was blessed with extra patience to handle all the 'playing' which includes wrestling and screaming and destroying.

October is looming just around the corner. School will start again and that means I will have to make lunches every morning. Homework I can handle, but making a sack lunch every single morning is what gets me. And then there's Halloween and getting costumes made, bought, and ready. Then November and Jakob's birthday. Then December and Christmas. And snow. I'm a little nervous about this time of year. But there's a lot of good that comes with the stress, so I guess I'm looking forward to it all, too!