Just an update

Sorry I haven't updated in forever, I have been battling fleas, children, and lawn mowers for the past few weeks. First off, fleas...somehow our house has become infested with these jerks and it got bad, Ben started scratching to the point where he was making himself bleed on the back of his neck and legs, so we got a flea coller, some control or something to put on the cat, and we treated the cat on a Saturday afternoon. The next day we planned to bomb the house while we were at church but when we woke up and I came out to sort laundry, about nineteen of them jumped on me, that's when I realized that if Ben was getting bit as badly as he was and having no other signs of them on anyone else, I knew if he stayed in the house he'd get eaten alive so we took the kids out immediately go them dressed, bombed the house and went to the beach. We couldn't get back into the house in time before church started so we missed it. That really didn't kill them, though at first it appeared that it had worked, and maybe it did, but we had another infestation not to long after that so we got carpet powder to kill the fleas and we brushed it into the carpet with brooms, let it sit overnight, and we have almost got the problem under control now. We tried everything though, spent a lot of money too. We had dishes of vinegar put onto the floor that the kids put the fleas they find in, it kills them right away, sometimes they even jump into the dish without us putting them in there. We also rented a steam cleaned and cleaned all the carpets before we put the carpet powder down, I hope that helped too because it cost a lot of money to do. We also shaved our cat, she looks rather stupid now but hopefully it'll grow back haha.
Secondly, the lawn mower...oh boy, we just bought this thing like three months ago and it already crapped out on us. It starts, and after a few minutes just completely stops, then you have to prime it about ten times before you get it started again, and it goes for a few minutes and dies all over again. We still haven't fixed it, the weeds are overgrown, the kids can't really play outside because of them so that leads to the third thing...I have been miserable having to be inside with these kids for the past week because Brad's basically been working straight through days, comes home to sleep and that's about it...And since I can't fix the lawn mower, I use it and restart it every five minutes or less and it is just more strain then I need. I told Brad this morning to take the kids to church I was staying home, I need a break. It feels good to not hear them screaming and yelling at each other. I wish I could say I missed them horribly, but I'd be lying through my teeth. And what a way for Brad to realize (and maybe appreciate) what I do. Sorry I sound bitter, but I am!! :) I'll get over it.