Child Labor & Animal Control ~

I wonder how other mommies come up with creative ways to keep their kids from tearing down the house or injuring one another in this long, hot summer!

As for our family, we have been busy fighting ants and mice, who have taken a special liking to our home. It's either the heatwave, or our unkempt home has too much sweets laying around. Yesterday both kids were put to work, cleaning up dead bodies left by hubby's ant spraying rampage. Hope the child protection agency doesn't see this blog post!

I have a garden with cucumber, bell pepper, and bitter melon plants ~ which yields NO veggies! Grrrr.... I realized this was a very "organic" garden because we found a little critter enjoying our veggie plants! No wonder we have no veggie....this critter probably ate it all! For dessert, these mice (and their entire family tree) will nibble on colorful fruit bits and rainbow colored pellets dropped by Kobee & Jubee bird! Grrr.....






Aside from these unpleasant critter-disasters, the kids keep themselves busy with their backyard water play, fight-over-the-TV-time, tickle-me-Elmo-time, 'No-Piano' tantrums and 'That's-Mine' Rivalries.

On rare occasions (once a day?), there's actually a "precious moment " in which they work and play together kindly. That makes my day and reminds me how blessed it is to be a SAH mommy (^_^)



One of verbose Abbie's favorite activities is conversing with her imaginary phone pal. She's a natural blabber and hubby says she's mimicing what mommy does all day (*_*) This may be a preview of what is yet to come when she blossoms into a chattering teenager!

We are one month into summer vacation! Time flies!