I'm Exhausted

The kids and I flew back from Oklahoma on Tuesday after spending two weeks with Doug in Altus. He has been there since March 26th for IP (Instructor Pilot) School. We've been home for three days but haven't been home much. Each night we've gotten home after 8 pm and the kids are usually in bed by then and have had their baths. I'm looking forward to a relaxing day tomorrow pulling weeds. Maybe I'll be able to get the kids to help me out. Today we went to see Planet Earth with some other homeschooling friends. One thing I realized early on was that it wasn't made for the younger crowd. There was a lot of narration and it was slow moving. It held Jacob's attention most of the time, but towards the end of the movie Audrey and Ethan were laying on the floor underneath the seats in front of them. I was one row back and found it quite disgusting to see them laying there, but I knew it would be a major battle to get them to sit in their seats. Having three kids has caused me to overlook a lot of things I wouldn't have tolerated with just one. Thankfully there weren't very many people there. I'm sure it would have made a difference if there were people sitting in front of them because they would be bothering someone at that point. However, Audrey almost forced me to get up when I saw her eating popcorn off the floor. She was even nice enough to offer some to Ethan, which he refused. He was having too much fun looking at the blue track light. I know, I know...you are probably repulsed that I didn't get up to do anything about this. However, I decided that it could be worse...like on our plane ride home when I caught Audrey licking her seat belt buckle. Now that is disgusting!!! However, one child doing that apparently wasn't enough. When we were getting ready to land I saw Jacob sucking on his seat belt strap. I try really hard to teach them what's appropriate and inappropriate, but, sometimes it just doesn't sink in and sometimes I'm just too exhausted to do anything about it.