WOW, Wednesdays Are CRAZY

I survived the day and thankfully ended it on a nice note, having dinner with tía D and sister C. My children  sure seem easier when I have two more people here and I come home to fed and bathed kids. MoJo has actually been adorable. My being back at school seems to have shifted their universe back into normal and they are both super sweet. When I went to check if they were asleep, M told me to please remind her to work on her challenge, which is to watch her tone and to be nice, she declared. I told her that she was nice and that watching her tone was a good challenge but that her behavior was excellent. She said, "I know, because I already started the challenge." Some other funny things these kids have said lately include... when I told M and J to get a job to pay for something they were wasting or broke (I cannot remember), M quipped (sincerely) "Oh, you have to have a job to get money? I thought you just went to the bank." M is obsessed with Barbie games on the computer, so J apparently was playing it as well in after school. A third grade boy apparently asked him why he was playing a "girl game". J shot back, "because I like it" and M also shot him a dirty look. The teacher who told me this story said "it warmed my feminist heart"- I must say, I liked it too. I cannot believe I booked movie tickets for next Wednesday, post my East Side meeting. What am I crazy? Oh, yeah. I am. Off to bathe before I smell more homeless than I already do. PS F's trip was extended a day. Yeah (that was sarcastic).