Back To Normal

After basically three weeks of "vacation",
we started getting back to normal.

Well at least as normal as anyone in our household can ever hope to be.

Taking a break from school, taekwondo, gymnastics, piano, and

 extra chores was only planned to be two weeks,

but we checked out a week early this year.

We had a lot of fun but I was more than ready to get some structure back.

Three weeks must be my limit for chaos.

Isabelle was not so excited to get back to regular life.

Today she decided she hates all things associated

with her past life of 2010.

This was what she sounded like all day,

"Mom, I hate making my bed.  Why do we have to do school,

can't I just play the Wii all day? 

I like my hair messy. Piano?  I hate piano."

I understand that she doesn't actually mean any of those things -

except for possibly the hair and bed parts. 

 She is just lucky that we didn't have more
 "regular" stuff on the schedule today.

Liam went back to some kind of new normal.

I think a switch must have gone off in him again.

He has always been a climber, but he is starting to venture off into extreme sports.

He can't seem to go more than 30 seconds without getting into trouble. 

Soungsik's mom had to sew leather patches on the

knees of his jeans when he would get new ones because

 he would wear them out so quickly.

I desperately hope that isn't a heritable necessity. 

I left Liam in the kitchen for literally 10 seconds alone. 

When I had come back he was standing in the middle of the table. 

I had to run as fast as possible to catch him before he could

"run away" from me off the edge of the table.

He kept getting up on the ottoman and jumping onto the couch face first. 

He must have done that at least 50 times. 

He was also missing a lot today and I kept finding him in the

 pitch black basement hanging onto the cat by his tail.

As a side note he is also sick, with a bad cold. 

He has a sore throat, cough, and extra runny nose.

I am getting nervous about how much trouble he'll be able

 to get into when he has his full health.

Is it bad for a mom to pray to keep her child just mildly sick?

Today has gone as smooth as I could have hoped and
I got many things accomplished.

I wonder how long we will be on our normal schedule before

I am begging for another three week vacation.

I am hoping for one week at a minimum!