Imagination.

Adam loves, loves his "guys." Guys meaning all his action figures like batman, Star Wars, and Transformers. He will go and get the "guys" almost everyday and create some kind of scenario. My favorite was last night when he told me batman was dead. I looked, and all the star wars guys were in a circle around batman. He didn't tell me how batman died, but it was a serious moment.

Andrew, who is just in Kindergarten, had to write his first book report this week. He had to write the title, author, draw and write his favorite part of the book. Not too stressful, but still a book report! Of course the book he picked was Star Wars. Of course his favorite part was when the people were fighting.

What a week.

Raul got back on Sunday from a 5 day trip only to leave yesterday. He'll be back on Sunday. Then, he leaves again next Thursday for 17 days, holy hell. Thank god my neighbor stocked me up with xanax. Seriously, it's not thaaat bad. The kids are awesome. I stocked up on art supplies and fun stuff to keep them busy. The thing that is hard is the fighting. oh the fighting. These two boys will fight over a piece of lint.

I have about three reward charts going to keep things running smoothly and lots of reinforcements when good behavior is presented.  Hopefully Grandma will step it up and take Andrew for a night or two. Adam attempted to stay the night at Grandmas last Saturday. He packed his bag and everything only to call me at 9 pm to come pick him up, oy! So, I picked up Adam and then dropped off Andrew and all was good.

I'm not scared of 17 days all by myself. Well, check back with me in a few weeks. I may be curled up in a fetal position.

Happy Friday.