odds and ends

1.  Every day.  Every every day, I struggle and battle not to take the xanax, and then finally, probably about once a week, I give up and take it and then I spend the rest of the day wondering why I have to be so masochistic and wondering if maybe xanax would like me to have its babies.  I think Jesus is down with xanax, guys.
2.  My poor laptop is now missing so many keys it is Ridiculous!  Let me list for you the keys my kids have popped off and lost: enter, whatever is supposed to go above enter, whatever is supposed to go beside the up arrow, the letter m, the letter o.  I now have to hit the little rubber doo-dads whenever I want to use these keys.  It is slowing my typing down just a skosh.  The space bar is also not on quite right and only responds about half the time.  I am tempted to take it to the geek squad, but I am afraid they will yell at me for being such an irresponsible laptop owner and perhaps call laptop protective services.  Also, I am afraid they will charge me too much money.  Maybe they could just offer some type of scared straight program to laptop abusing toddlers.
3.  We made a sugar cookie map of the United States today highlighting the 13 original colonies and Ohio.  It was a smashing, delicious messy success.  I live for these moments when I don't feel like a total homeschool slop artist.  We also made shaving cream puffy paint cookies.  My 6 year old can now tell you how many colonies there were and what each group of colonies specialized in.  My 4 year old got the letter c and its sound.  A good school week.
4.  I have decided to make it my new motto to never let a spider go past me alive.  If all of us purposed to kill every spider that came any where close to crossing our paths maybe the spiders would stop terrorizing us and realize that we mean business and they need to stay the heck away.
5.  I have also decided that there should be a limit to how many times one is required to sweep and or mop ones floor in a single day before said floor is considered clean no matter what the actual state of the floor.  For instance, if one has swept and or scrubbed ones kitchen floor 4 times in a single day that floor is regarded as clean even if one's baby proceeds to dump an entire bag of mini oreos on that floor and then step in them 100 times until the whole floor is covered with black dust. 
6.  I have decided that my kids don't need dopey names (no offense to those of you who blog and use dopey names of your own).  My girls are Linley, Faith, and Ellery