Can you teach me to tie my shoes, mommy?

I have to admit that I am the teacher in my household. I think things through and teach my children all that is needed to know to survive in life. But I will admit that there is one thing that I cannot do. Tie my kids how to tie shoes smh lol. I know it’s a simple task right. Well not for me know matter what way I show him I can’t get them to do it. I tried the tree and squirrel method, I have tried the two bunny ears and I have even tried the “x” and the cross method…but no success. It doesn’t help that my 5 year old is also talented enough to use both is left and right hands , which just throws me off cause I don’t know what hand to lead with lol. Well like the great mother I am I tried again to today and today I had it. I just couldn’t do it. SMH!! No matter how hard I tried to get him to do it I couldn’t get him to do the first step. So I turned to my lovely husband who was working of course and asked him if he could teach him. He gladly took him the next room and within 5 minutes my son came back and showed me the first step of tying his shoes. Now when I say 5 minutes I am actually given extra time. It was more like 2-3 minutes. My darling hubby taught him step 1, how to cross his laces and pulls one through the hole! Now I don’t know about you but I felt quite slow after seeing this. Is something wrong with me I taught lol. I mean I taught the boy write his name, read, spell, brush his teeth, wash his hair, eat, his phone number, address but I can’t teach him to tie his shoes. I guess sometimes even superwoman can’t do it all lol. Has this ever happen to anyone? How did you get through the tying shoe method? Did you let your spouse have at it? Or did you keep trying? I ask this because I didn’t teach my oldest how to tie his shoes either, my husband taught him too.

I'm back

BACK IN ACTION!!!

It has been a while since I have been on and honestly I have wanted to just hadn't got a chance to. Last time I was on I was on my quest to become more organized before Keoni #3, (child #4) was born. Well that ended shortly because he came 3 weeks early lol. One day I was in target (my favorite store) shopping for home organization deals since they were having a sale (that's my story and I'm sticking to it lol) and I started having contractions. Being that it was not my first baby I honestly thought they were braxton hicks contractions and given that I have a short cervix which affected my pregnancy with baby girl Aolani I thought I just needed to go home and rest. I did just that and was fine until the next day when I lost my mucus plug and went into labor. Ended up having Keoni at 1 in the morning while my hubby and baby girl Aolani waited out in the waiting room. :(  Keoni was 4 lbs 12 ozs but believe me he is not missing any meals in fact we just started  1st stage baby food. Right now I am using store bought brands but plan on buying a food processor and making my own in the next few weeks.

So since my last post Keoni was born and my hubby and I bought a HOUSE! This is the biggest purchase we have made together and we are so proud of ourselves and our accomplishment. We wanted to own a house before we were 30 and we did :) We weren't looking to buy a house until I was finished with grad school but after dealing with the horrible school setting my kids were being subjected to in Baton Rouge I had to move. While they are making great efforts to improve the schools I felt that my kids were missing out especially if you compare them to those schools in which they had to apply and hope to get in. Honestly I wanted that at first but with 4 children that's a lot of stress and I didn't need anything else to work about. So we looked into moving into a better area with better schools and still fair for my husband's employees to drive since he would be relocating his office. Well we ended up in Madisonville and lets just say I LOVE IT!!!! Now I am back on my quest to organize and conquer the clutter-mania which took over my residency due to two complicated pregnancies back to back.

Until Next Time Lots of Love,

Ladyhart

Follow directions please!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know if anyone else is having this problem my 4 yr old db is driving me crazy, literally. I tell him to do something and it's like a party to him. He has every intention on doing it but he gets distracted by the littlest things, like if he walks past my dd who can playing by herself, he'll stop and play with her. I have no idea what to do. I think to myself, what is wrong with this boy. Here is the kicker though, he gets smiley faces at school all week, but when he gets home he's like a different kid. He's hypered and hard headed. Any tips on what to do? I am confused and I have a headache dealing with day in and day out.