Thursday Thirteen #2

Thirteen Reasons why I LOVE my Scale (at home)....

1. It never shares my secret with others

2. Even when I only lose a tenth of a pound it gladly tells me

3. No matter how big I am it never turns me away

4. It only uses numbers so it never says that ugly 3 letter word I use way too much.

5. I never have to worry about weather or not it is being honest.

6. No matter how many times we have moved it has never jumped ship. It always shows up in a box.

7. It is shiny ( I like shiny things :) )

8. It's like a Timex..."it takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'"

9. Like a really great friend no matter how mean I am it always forgives me and welcomes me back.

10. When I am having a great week (weight wise) it is just as happy to show me

11. It never yells at me

12. It never asks.... "why?"

13. If it ever turns on me I know it is easily replaced...just like there are many fish in the sea there are many scales in the stores. Too bad you just can't get a new body in the store as well.

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Brutis and Shilo

Oops these pictures are both of Shilo. I have to look again to see if Brutis has had a kodak moment.

Gotta Love this Kid!

It's moments like this that make my smashed banana on the floor mornings seem not so bad.

"Like, whatever!"

Okay now I know my parents sweet revenge came in the form of my children. I used to drive my parents up the ever lovin' wall by constantly saying Like and whatever. I remember my Dad trying SO SO hard to break me of that habit. Now my own child is showing me exactly what a pain in the neck I was. If I have to hear my son say " wha's up " or "Dude" one more time I am going to scream! I guess this is fair warning to all those in hearing range because I know as soon as he gets off the bus today I am going to be greeted with a " wha's up, Mom?" or worse he will look at the baby and say "hey wha's up dude?" GAG, PUKE, BARF!

Outta the Mouth of Babes

Okay so this is a true story, not very interesting but true. I had been sitting on the couch all snuggled up with my birthday girl (she is FIVE today) when the phone rang. So I gave a good hmmmf and got up to answer the phone as I thought it might just be the hubby. No such luck it was the dreaded sales person. Anyway after I hung up I was met by the birthday girl herself exclaiming....."Wow mom you have a really big bum. Look at all this space your bum took!"

I sighed and simply answered "yep" I mean she is the birthday girl how could I be mad and sadly my bum did require that large dented in spot on the couch. Uggghhhh. Oh and this falls on the same day I read my good friend Lammy Ann's post on Watching Weight Okay, Okay I can take a hint!

Thursday Thirteen # 1

(13 random bits of info. on ME)

1. No my hair is not really this red
2. If I color my hair what makes you think my eyes are really this green?
3. I have 4 kids ages 9, 7, 5 (on Monday) and 1
4. I have been Married for 10 years
5. I grew up in the Mid-West, Nebraska to be exact.
6. I don't miss Nebraska, but I would move back there as it is a great place to raise the kiddo's
7. I have moved 9 times in the past 10 years
8. I work hard staying at home being a mom
9. I LOVE the Take Five candy bar what took Hershey so long to put that one out there?
10. I really miss walking in the vineyards in Germany, I mean I REALLY miss that.
11. I enjoy the fact that we no longer have cable at our house.
12. I wish we could get more than dial-up internet at our new country locale.
13. We have 2 new puppies Brutis and Shilo

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Scissors, Lollipops, and Pencils and other Motherly Warnings

I find myself telling my little ones not to run with scissors or pencils in hand or lollipops (suckers) in their mouths all the time. I know there is very good reasoning behind these firm warnings but I have lost count of how many brushes with death I must have avoided doing these same things.

What are some of the other motherly warnings you have given while whispering in the back of your mind.... "do as I say, not as I do" ?

Why?

Why do I think it will only take a few minutes to unpack those last few boxes?

Why do I think my kids will remember to make their beds?

Why do I think that it should be easy to wash the fabric cover for my 1yr old's car seat?

Why would I ever think that it would take less than a professional and 30 min to put the above mentioned car seat back into the truck?


I broke into a sweat last night when I became entangled in seat belt straps and buckles as I took the fabric cover off of my son's car seat. Finally I had it off and in the wash. Then where the next challenge became .... where to hang it so it would be dry by morning? Morning arrived and yep you guessed it....it was still wet. Do the makers of car seats assume that you have a full week to sit and wait for these to dry? Damp as it was I took the time to put it back on said car seat and put it back in the truck. It was a good thing I already knew what a struggle it was to put this thing in properly as I had given myself plenty of time. 30 minutes later we were off to the bus stop to drop off the other kids. Once we were back at home I had to take the seat out again to go through that same darn struggle to remove the cover. It is now air drying on the porch as I watch the ever darkening skies and my hopes are I can quickly grab them before the raindrops fall and take me back to square one.

1 Thing I Love About You

My kids were arguing this morning and as I walked into the room it was if I walked in to a pillow fight and there were feathers falling all around, only instead of feathers the air was full of hurtful words and tears. This has been happening way too often around here especially in the mornings while getting ready for school. So I decided instead of yelling back at them to get them to stop and then sending them to their separate spaces I would try something new.

I stepped in between them looked towards my son and said okay quickly name one thing you love about your sister. It was amazing how quickly the mood changed. I told them that from now on when I have to step in on them fighting like that they are going to have to stop and tell each other one thing they love about the other person. Oh and the catch is that it can't be the same thing they said within the past 7 days. So they can't just say the same thing over and over again.

My son took a bit too long giving a response and yet he could name 100 things that bothered him about his sister in a matter of 15 sec. I told him that it is quite possible that we spend too much time focusing on the things that bother us about others and not enough time embracing the things we love about others. If we spent more time telling others what we cherish about them it would be harder to see the negative things.

Quote of the day

"THAT, was dinner?!"

"yep, and maybe breakfast in the morning if you are not careful."