Failure

Every Valentines Day Chet and I make a candlelight dinner for the boys. They love to eat by candlelight, and think that it is so cool. I like to make chicken alfredo. Chet was out of town on the 14th, so I decided that doing it for FHE would be fun. I also bought a box full of special chocolates and wanted to have the boys taste and guess the flavor. It was going to be such a great dinner filled with love and respect and joy. We were going to laugh and enjoy being together. Since today was Presidents Day, I have "enjoyed" being together ALL day with the boys! Holy Moly! I love public schools! I could never homeschool! Dinner was instead, filled with lots of yelling, then total silence on my part, then yelling for the boys to clean their spot and kneel for prayers to go straight to bed. I told them that Dad and I were going to eat all the chocolates, in which case we got total whining and acting like babies, but since that was all we have heard, it didn't change a thing for them. They hit a whole new level of disrespect today, and it's gonna change!!! Some days are wonderful... others just SUCK! Today will be filed under the SUCK category. I just have to get up tomorrow and try again! (Chet warned me last night that he was going to be really busy with school after the kids went to bed and that he couldn't sit and hold me. It seemed like a weird thing to say last night. Right after prayers I thanked him for the warning! That was all I wanted by the time the kids went to bed. Gotta love a husband that sees the future, or the calendar, and knows what days off like this means! Ahhhhh!)