This being a grown up stuff, well it’s not nearly as much fun as I thought it would be…
We’re running late and G doesn’t like the one remaining clean pair of underwear in his drawer, and A needs yet another form signed right now or the world will end, right now!, and I’m making coffee, because I need the coffee, and water drips from the ceiling, and the kid’s tub is right above the kitchen, and more water pours down. At work I see and I am asked to mediate four kinds of abuse and dysfunction and it’s not even lunch time. Lessons for one kid and the other one is in the foulest of moods, no water at home, hubs is still working on the plumbing, so we go to a restaurant but no one talks and the stink eye bounces around freely. Then ah, the most dreaded time of day, homework. I love seeing my kids learn but this after this day, no one is in the zone. So I buy myself flowers while running out for milk and there is always tomorrow. I hope someday when G and A have beautiful families of their own, that I get a call and hear a story like this. I’ll bring over grocery store flowers and they will know their mother’s heart and life a bit better. And to my sweet mama, I apologize for any static I ever threw your way.
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So CNN announces today that, wait for it, Hello Kitty is NOT a cat but rather a little British girl…..uh, no!
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/28/world/asia/hello-kitty-revelation/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
I do NOT and WILL not accept this! With pending civil war in the Ukraine, Ebola, and ISIL threatening all that is good and holy, why do I care? Because this precious nine year old loves Hello Kitty. She is growing up too fast in a world that is spinning closer to annihilation every day. Nope, you cannot change Hello Kitty after forty years. She has whiskers people! While I’m living in denial, Pluto will always be a planet to me. So there, world. Don’t mess with Hello Kitty or Ava or Ava’s love for Hello Kitty!
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Be afraid, very afraid. My pantry was seriously ugly…
this was left for us by previous owners
I know, it makes me sad too
don’t let this fool you, he only painted the part I couldn’t reach, yes another blog picture of the back of Joey’s head
fresh paint, fun stripes, and new tile- ah, much better
why do I have three jars of peanut butter?- these questions keep me up at night
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my favorite Captain America
star wars, super heros, and God bless America!
cousin cuties
Granny’s Girls
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I have learned that there is no such thing as “just a little bit of glitter”
Hannah, I made garland inspired by you!
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cream carpet on stairs with kids is always a bad idea
we finally got the courage to rip it off! only 55,000 staples later
gallons of putty, sanding, and sanding, and more sanding lead to two coats of oil based paint followed by two coats of poly to seal the deal
this wasn’t a hard project just very tedious, so glad it’s over!
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so both kids are swimming competitively this year
swim team is a crazy, fun alternate universe
I’m learning it’s normal to write all over your kid with sharpie, to double-check the peanut butter and jelly song before downloading it on I-tunes (some seriously offensive gangster rap instead of the cute practice song- YIKES), and half the battle is just jumping in and going for it- All good life lessons
this guy is a rookie but I am so proud of him for going for it!
this beauty won her heat in freestyle, I swear she walked three inches taller after that
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