How are things going?

People love to ask this question, and I am not sure they are really wanting a true answer.  Most times the classic response is great, or things are going well...just more of the same.  At this point, I am not sure I can hold it all in, so I will post instead of talking off someones ear off (another idiom, which is another conversation in itself).  You would think things would be going smoothly by this time in our school year.  I could only wish.  This month once again we are late in our book report...in fact Becca couldn't even find her book for a week and finally informed me she discovered it next to her bed ( the pile of clutter I would rather just trash!)  Now that we have the book we no longer have the instructional sheet for the book report!  Brayden is still wearing dress pants due to colder weather and now both pair have huge grass and dirt stains and I know will not last even though I just bought them last week.  Uniforms are great but for some reason he is adamant about wearing a blue uniform shirt leaving him dig in the laundry, which this week is not getting done  Actually it is done it just doesn't get put away...if you need clothes at our house just check the mounting pile of laundry on the washer and in the dryer  Yesterday his homework folder was left on the table, following a  nice bright red note from his teacher asking where his homework was??  Andrea is a classic girl basket case most mornings, whining and crying about most everything.  Most mornings it is hair-which I am about to chop off.  Today was spring pics which caused our morning to explode-trying to find dresses that didn't rub just impossible.  Maybe they should just where a big t-shirt and call it good.  Shoes are a pain-either too loose or they rub.  Today their were five pairs of dress sandals for Andrea to wear...all resulting in tears.  Both girls left with socks and shoes in their backpack, after I about kicked them out the door.  Whose idea is spring pics anyway-does anyone really order those pictures with that fake backdrop!!  To top it off it was Andrea's snack day-gluten free snacks are just a pain and would you know the grapes looked horrible last night, at the store.  Yes, last night at the store, even though I was there Monday returning a redbox a day late.  The teacher requests they be individually packaged and not sugar...she got a bag of cookies today, I almost sent a box of fruit snacks.
  Okay, life isn't so bad, although my watch did die yesterday and I am so sick of looking at my wrist!  Making James and I 10min late for a 30min speach class....what is the point??  if I could just hang out with the kids and not have to be a responsible parent it just might be a little more fun.  Someone mentioned the responsibilities of a wife to me and how much work it took to do everything we need to do....they suggested it might be a whole lot easier if we hired a wife to help the wives.  Sounds pretty good to me. Then I might have someone to run all the errands I need to do today so we can enjoy our life at home.  There are moments which I love, seeing the girls play in a closet for two hours with such imagination is so fun. Picking up Andrea from school and her greeting me with a toothless grin because her beyond lose tooth finally fell out.   Listening to Brayden work on a song much harder than he can play but is determined to learn it because it is by Beethoven, a composer he learned about at school.  Having James tell me his Bible story about Jesus dying on the cross, and then looking at me to tell me that his isn't dead-he is alive.
         "Like that song mommy, God's not dead he's surely alive, he's living on the inside...."  Picture him singing in a rock and roll voice.  These are the things that make me happy-not if the house is clean or laundry done-this is what I need to remember when things get a little crazy or the house and animals are just driving me nuts.