My new Laundry room

Well I may end up regretting this.. but for NoW I am Loving it. I HATE LAUNDRY hate with a capital hate. My kids try to pull something out of their drawer and everything else somehow comes with it and lands on the floor. I am doing laundry and some items are still folded. I want to strangle someone.
I got this idea from the eyers. I moved all the kids dressers into the laundry room. My laundry room is fairly small. It is very tight. SO they have to go into the laundry room to get dressed. It does leave the laundry room a big fat mess. But lets be honest it was a mess before. I am in there ten times more than in the kids room so if someone ACCIDENTALLY removes all there clean clothes on the floor I see it before it gets stirred into the pot of dirty.
The BEST part about the whole thing is the entire laundry process happens in 60 square feet. So I put a tiny travel dvd player in the laundry room. I have watched two completes seasons of stuff I like. I am actually excited to do laundry. If I am still engaged in the show I try to iron or straighten up in there. I have never been so caught up on laundry. The other day I was sad because I didn't have any laundry to do. That has never happened to me. So my daughter puked in her bed and my son peed all over the bath mats. So don't worry I was right back in there.

Strict school Strict Teachers????

update. they change classes for math , science, and reading, two recesses and a lunch. That is the time they are allowed to use the bathroom so they really should have plenty of time.

My kids go to this school and I am super excited about it. They have recently become managed by APA American preparatory academy. They wear uniforms, which I love. Even though it creates tons of laundry. So this year they have REALLY stepped up the structure. The have to sit in learning position, which is feet on the floor and hands clasped on the desk. When the teacher asks a question they all respond in unison. If she asks a yes or no question they answer back with no or yes MAM.. They have seven different infractions they can be punished for. If they have to go to the bathroom they have to "pull a card" and lose five minutes of recess. If they are unprepared for the day. Or if there parents didn't sign their daily learning log the also have to pull a card. My kids are very nervous about school. They are pestering me and almost in tears if I don't sign their sheet immediately when they get home.
They are also doing some fun stuff they have cheers and chants and the teacher is constantly praising the class. The teacher asks questions and the kids respond every thirty seconds to a minute (in unison).
So the reason I am telling you all this is because there has been an unbelievable amount of drama. Parents are freaking out, there is a we hate excelsior academy page on facebook . People are threatening to not send their kids the day the budget is allotted for the year. People who know anything about APA always seem a little nervous when I tell them they are managing the school.
So all the drama makes me nervous. I have been very pleased and excited. I think all the structure is good for the kids. I am a very fun and low key mom with little to no structure. So I feel it is a good balance to my personality. I wonder what all you other moms think. Should I be nervous? Should I be listening to all the drama and figuring out the root of it all or just ignorantly bliss full??

I want this too...

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

Sister Marjorie Hinckley

I need audio Ideas

My kids go to a charter school which is 15 minutes from our house. I choose for them to go there so I can't complain. However, I am in the car 30- 120 minutes a day taking them to school and back uugghh.. It is only week two and I need some ideas. I bought a lot of talks on cd from education week but I have already blazed through about 80 dollars worth. So I need a cheaper option. ANY IDEAS??? I want it to be uplifting, informational, or even just entertaining.

Education week

I spent the week before school started at education week at byu. It is 900% worth it. you can stay in the dorms for 82 dollars for 6 nights. The entire week m-f is 62 dollars to attend a crazy amount of classes. You just have to steer clear of the bookstore or the week just quad rippled in price. Maybe some year I can manage that but not 2010. The classes begin at 830 in the morning and end at 930 at night. You sit all day and listen to the most amazing teachers and presenters ever. I missed last year and I felt a small void all year. So I am looking for a group of friends to go next year. You can attend classes from marriage, parenting, organizing, gardening, health, teachings of isiah, signs of the second coming. All presented from some of the best teachers the church has to offer. If I can tantalize your tastebuds. They televise a very small portion of the classes each year and you can find them here.

I love reality tv!!!

I am embarrassed to admit it. I won't talk about it in a crowd.. BUT I DO.. I love it.. It is the only tv I watch. I DVR biggest loser, survivor, and occasionally amazing race. I watch them while I fold laundry or cut coupons or lay there and eat popcorn.. I would love to try out for survivor some day. I think you have to be much younger and willing to be mostly naked on tv. I do have one thing going for me. I am lds reality tv loves the mormons, almost every show has at least one every season.

Why does crazy stuff happen to me???

I could post at least ten incredibly terrible embarrassing moments that you would wonder if they were true. If you actually believed you would then wonder why is she telling these things out loud. What is it about me that all these horrifying things happen. I am not sure. I am always running late and only half prepared maybe that is a recipe for disaster. The average embarrassing moment probably wouldn't even phase me.. I don't know what the deal is ANYONE,,, ANYONE???