Day 31-

Why do you have to clean before the cleaning people come???? I understand the part about picking up the toys and putting away the laundry, but it always seems to expose all the dirt when everything is put away....of course the final result is obviously much better than leaving the dust bunnies where they were!! But now of course I don't want to use anything or let the kids out of jail (i mean their room) for fear of making a mess. Seems like i've gotten myself into a condundrum...oh well...it looks good and i deserve it for my birthday!
We had a good afternoon, one of the cleaning ladies has a son ainslea's age taht we used to go to playgroups with. So she brings him to play while they do the house. It was fun for ainslea to have someone who could play video games with her and that way we were out of the way. Unfortunately Derek was having trouble putting his sentences together and using "umm alot" and ainslea interupted him to point it out. I tried to just tell her not to interupt him, and then they were looking at something with musical notes, and she couldn't figure out why he didn't know what a eighth note or a sixteenth note was...it was tough to be tactful...so later we talked about how it wasn't nice to point out to others that they are doing something different...unfortunately that made Ainslea incredibly sad and she was crying FOREVER!! I told her i was so proud of how smart she was and she was learning lots of new things. I just wanted her to learn the lesson about not making fun of people, but she's really sensitive to realising she did something to hurt someone else.
Now i'm tired, and going to try to go to bed early...here's to hoping