Brag Post Plus

I know its hard to listen to parents go on and on about how wonderful their kids are. Well oh well, that's what you get on a mom-blog.

I was just about to write a post on how big of help Eden was today when she came upstairs and started whining and complaining, touching everything in the room that I did not want her to touch, and generally being pretty annoying. Sometimes I feel guilty about having such little patience for those types of things. But after feeling guilty for too too long, I've decided that no mom is perfect, and if this is what she complains about in 20 years, then so be it.

Nonetheless I'll give credit when due, and today, Eden:

• Helped me vacuum by pushing it around behind me so that I wouldn't have to pull it
• Helped me wash mirrors and toilets
• Fetched random things for me, like new garbage bags, the stool, the window cleaner, and brought the stool back to the kitchen, and laundry to the hamper, and even put the garbage bag in the pail
• Washed the steps (she does this most Fridays, with very wet wipes. We're lucky if there isn't enough water on the floor underneath them afterward to wash the rest of the floor too...)
• Made her bed this morning! Totally without either of us prompting her to!

Really, what a big girl and what a big helper.

On another note, she's going through an odd clingy phase. I'm late leaving for work more often than not recently because she's up when I leave and crying that she wants me to stay with her. One day this week, I actually gave her a necklace of mine to wear so that she would have a bit of me all day with her. That seemed to do the trick, although Ben wasn't too pleased. He thought the other kids might get jealous and make fun of her. Indeed, when I went to pick her up, it was hidden, tucked into her shirt, because she said the other kids might call her "chutzpanit" (lit. "rude", but something along the lines of making fun of her, I guess...)

And on another note completely (this is the "plus"), I've been looking for a hanging fruit basket for AGES! I want to screw them into the ceiling above the divider between our dining room and kitchen because we always lose track of the fruit and vegies in our fridge and they end up going bad. It's very weird, nobody has them. Seriously, what a funny thing to not be able to find - they are under $15 in the US.