I'm addicted to you baby/You're a hard habit to break...

I know some people probably thought it was pretty gloomy, but I loved the weather today. Overcast, not too warm, not too cool, and especially the soft breezes.  It was absolutely heavenly while the kids and I played outside. Inside, however, was not so nice.  Ewan, who used to be the ultimate vegetable connoisseur, and I have been having the same dialogue all too often lately.  It goes something like this:

Ewan:  Mommy, can I have a cookie?
Mommy:  No, not right now.
Ewan:  (throwing such a huge fit I can actually see fangs growing)  Oh, but I want one, please let me have a cookie!  (Screams something indecipherable.)  I want one right now.  Yes, now!
Mommy:  No, you have to eat all of your (insert veggie here) first, then you can have one.
Ewan:  Okay.
...
...
(Ewan continues not eating.)
Mommy:  You won't get a cookie if you don't eat those...
Ewan:  I've just changed my mind, Mommy.  I don't want a cookie.

How can I win in the face of that logic?  But I can grow my own fangs, so I usually do end up winning eventually.

Tomorrow for the first time I'll be hosting the preschool.  It should be interesting, as my entire house is the size of most of the kids' bedrooms.  Okay, okay, so maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but only very slight.  This means I have to get up and vacuum.  And who wants to do that?  My dog's hair is woven so tightly into my rug, that if I could just find the right means of lifting it out while leaving it intact, I could have a whole new dog hair rug for the boys' room.

Now for my little announcement:  I'm going on an Internet diet.  That's right, I'm cutting down, trimming the fat off of my surfing habit.  The thing is, I rarely sit and just spend lots of time at one time, but all day as I'm running around the house, I stop and do a quick e-mail check, or news check to see if anything catastrophic has happened either in the real world or Hollywood.  Ugh, it's sickening.  I always go on and on about how we keep the TV off, but spending so much time on the Internet throughout the day isn't any better.  So, I'm checking all messages in the morning, because you know I'm so important that the President will check in with me during the wee hours, and then I am shutting it down.  I'm saving all of my writing for my evening session.  So, I'll pretty much be MIA via e-mail and blog until late in the day.  

As if you were interested.