If a picture is worth a thousand words…

Then you’re going to have to be content with a thousand words.
‘Cause I got no pictures.
What a week.
I blame the baby. She started off the week sick and decided to cry off and on during the night a few times, sleep in our bed a few times, kick people in the face a few times [...]

Nobody said it would make sense.

The thing nobody ever tells you about having kids, is that you’ll lose your logic skills as fast as you lose your patience.
I just gave a kid a tootsie roll to get him to eat a couple pinto beans.

Against my better judgment…

Do you suppose all stories of childhood destruction begin with those words?
It seems like all of mine do.
So, against my better judgement, I let Felicity play in the pantry while I did the dishes.
I even saw her pull the bag of birthday/cake decorations off the shelf and didn’t stop her.
I’d like to say that I [...]

Wow, who knew sugar was so flammable?

Let’s just say, I’m easily distracted.
I was cleaning up the breakfast dishes around 11 am after being distracted by this fascinating book earlier, when I noticed the syrup was a little low. So I decided to make some more.
As I was measuring the water (after already measuring the sugar), I got distracted and added too [...]

You know you move a lot when….

1. You have to forward your mail from two different addresses. (Personally, I’ve had to do it from three.)
2. It physically pains you to get rid of perfectly good boxes. You know you’ll need them again someday.
3. You look forward to moving because you can stop cleaning the house three weeks prior. (You’ll never have [...]

Kids: they make you liars

Remember when I waxed poetic about how Felicity doesn’t like bananas, just like me?
Yeah, well.
Now she loves them.
Yay? I guess.
Also, I was telling someone, within the last month or so, that none of my kids ever took to using pacifiers or sucking their thumbs. Not that I really cared. They just didn’t, you know?
Except recently, [...]

There’s only two ways to look at this

Either Mom and Dad weren’t paying attention and only realized later that their 9 month old used a ball-point pen remarkably close to her eye…
 

OR
She’s an incredibly talented artist for making such a perfectly formed eyebrow, right where it should be.

Maybe it’s a sign?

So, last week I borrowed a friend’s sewing machine and patched up 9 pairs of little boy jeans, 1 pair of Mr. French’s (one hole in the knee), one pair of mine (um, one hole not in the knee), and a sheet with a little hole in it.
Let’s review:
The boys have had their jeans for [...]

I’m usually not this dense

So, around last January I had to go buy new jeans for S, as he suddenly had about 5 pairs of capri pants and for some reason, he actually knew this wasn’t the current fashion and didn’t want to wear them anymore. (Not that I blame him.)
Within weeks, there were holes starting in those jeans and [...]

The proof is in the bananas

I wasn’t kidding when I said I hate bananas. And that I always have. My Mom says it was that way from the beginning.
I can remember leaving a banana that she had sent to school with me in my bag until it became a mushy brown disgustingly sweet mess at the bottom. When she found [...]