My Lilly

(Thanks cousin Ally for taking this picture!)


Merry and Bright

bad mom?

"There are some days when I have to choose between being a bad mom or an embarrassed mom. Today I chose bad mom...I gave in and bought her the candy. " ~Kathy

When my good friend said this I laughed hard.

First because she is just so darn funny.
Second because I mostly felt sorry for her inability to control her child.

Well....guess who chose bad today?!

That's right! Go ahead and judge

But when it came right down to it I had to give in.

My girls wouldn't stop screaming. I tried everything. I tried talking calmly. I walked away from the temptation. I hugged and loved. I even offered choices ya know, the whole love and logic thing. Well love and logic simply fly out the window when you're dealing with 2 kids under the age of three and baked goods are involved.

Lilly ate an entire cinnamon roll from Kneaders for lunch.

Sophia ate nothing but a chocolate chip cookie and rootbeer for lunch.

Me? well, I ate a delicious turkey ranch sandwich with chips and a large half coke/half diet coke.

Bad mom vs. Embarrassed mom.

hmmmmmm-the verdicts still out

But today's results were pleasant

AND

We all ate happily ever after!

eBay

eBay-ers I have 2 words for you:

Garage Sale

I love the eBay and have had several good experiences but one thing I would like to point out is that there are WAY too many tings being sold for WAY too much.

"Used", "Slightly Used", "Some Wear", "Used -but in Excellent Condition" are all nice ways of saying "not new, will never smell new, will never wear new, it's a crap shoot so good luck sucker and there is no such thing as a lemon law or buyers remorse- Or in the life lesson words of my uncle who sold me a car that gave up the ghost the next day "You sorry you bought the car? well, then there's your buyers remorse!"

eBay

Help Jim See

I entered Jim in a contest last week
If we win he get's free lasik eye surgery
If we loose Jim get's to wear glasses until...

Sophia stops breaking things

Harmon's lowers their prices on "Atrisan" bread

Businesses get rid of the tip jars

My hair suddenly stops turning gray

Jim no longer craves the House Lo Mein at Fong's

Kids stop having birthdays

Things in our home no longer need replacing/repairing

The kids are done with college

We've paid for 4 weddings

We win the lottery...in Wyoming :)

You can see our entry HERE

(You can also vote for him in that same page too-wink wink nudge nudge
Oh and you can vote EVERYDAY too)

The Blow-Out of all Blow-Outs!

So I searched the Internet for a definition of today's little set back and here is what I found:

• Blowout (well drilling), a sudden release of oil and gas from a well (Pretty darn close!)
  
• Blowout grass (Redfieldia flexuosa) is a grass that can be found on sand dunes
• Blowout (tire), a sudden loss of tire pressure.
  
• A sudden rupture or bursting, as of an automobile tire. (again-pretty darn close to today's reality)
  

blowout - a gay festivity-(I can assure you, there was nothing happy or gay about today's occurrence)

And then this little diddy was found on the Urban Dictionary web site: "1. When a baby or anyone ( ANYONE?) who wears a diaper had a bad poopy accident full of diarreha and poo goes everywhere (perhaps on your pants and your really cute flowered Lucky Brand sweater) making a mess and getting everything stinky (like the high chair at Chik-Fil-A that had to be taken out of commission...forever). Examples: 1. Upset mom: P-U! I think we should pull over on the side of the road to take care of the kid's diaper problems. (I wish we had been in the car. I would have been so lucky!) 2. Grumpy dad: Darn that diaper blowout is so stinky!" 3. People at Chick-Fil-A trying to enjoy their lunch: Ewww does that mother know that the child in her arms has poo running down her legs, into her shoes, on her dress and it is now getting all over her cute flowered sweater? 4. Friends with said mother: Holy Moses! Let us help! Here are some wipes. Use my daughters extra outfit I packed for school, here are some socks. Can we get some of your courtesy hand wipes? And throw in a few of those mints too! That was the first round-when she had blow out #2 I picked her up and ran to the car. And Blow out #3 thankfully was in the car and no I didn't pull over to the side of the road to take care of her diaper problems-I drove like a bat out of you know where, knowing full well that bad things really do come in three's!!!!!

bump da bump bump BUMP!

She hopped down the hall in full glee
Sophia's blanket she did not see,
she tripped and she fell
and gave out quite a yell
A large bump and a bruise was to be.